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Should I applaud your performance [[strikethrough]] for being persecuted with, let's say, the Michaelangelo Sounds", such sounds of other artists names "dropped", let's say, from the "Michalangelo Ceiling"...also with uninterrupted continuity. This condition also included factory in Leverkusen (Wollenstein). 

To refer to the New York University lecture of 1968 I can only [[strikethrough]] answer to the tapes from above. [[/strikethrough]]
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"TODAY WE ESTABLISH OUR CONTEMPORARY GODS AND GODESSES IN ART, EPHEMERAL, FRAGMENTED, AND MECHANICAL" KEEP ESTABLISHING THEM. IF PSYCHOLOGICALLY EXCHANGED ENVIRONMENTALLY "SPACES" AND SUCH PROGRAMS BY SUCH VARIOUS MEANS I MUST SAY UNDERSTATING THAT: THIS WAS FILTHY. 

As you might know, I have been imprisonned [[imprisoned]] in Greece three times in my very early childhood during the German and Italian occupation by Germans and Italians, and I have also been very badly beaten by the O. P. L. A. Communist Police Organization in Athens from where I was rescued by an Idealogist Communist. Because of such experiences I might have felt an even deeper feeling of "persecution" and depression, going through all such experiences -

I mentioned at some point earlier this evening that experiences felt, were resembling performances from Iphigenia In Aulis to Medea. For me as an artist artworks resemble children like yours. The word "you" is not necessarily addressed to you present tonight.

I would like to ask you, Would you send your children to prison three times?, then, after they readjusted from their fears and disastrous experiences of the war and after they have believed and dedicated themselves TO SAVE the world (I refer this to my early social welfare activities in Greece where I was beyond political compromise and would you, after your children have believed in art would you bomb them continually or would you give them a symbolic TIME magazine cover of non contraceptive pill of course...never published... would you keep shaking their belief like a process of liquidating their brain to throw them in insane asylums or keep them in a "coma"? Would you give them faith and then take it away through all such conditions. Also, would you reinduce them to political fears such as that of the iron curtain, which makes me think that escaping to Russia IF SUCH "WORKING" and "INSPIRING" CONDITIONS CONTINUE HERE, IN AMERICA WITH SUCH DIFFICULTIES WITH FABRICATORS, MAYBE IT IS NOT SUCH A BAD IDEA.