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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Pressed about fame and newspaper notoriety, the speaker remembers being thrown out of college after fights over pornographic pictures and anti-Jewish harassment, including pretending to be Jewish in solidarity with a kid being tormented.
The violence here comes wrapped in absurd details, especially the toilet-flushed pictures, but the anger is not only theatrical. Underneath the boasting is a real disgust with cruelty and a habit of turning moral protest into physical confrontation.
The college fight is revealed as being over flushed pornographic pictures and an earlier stunt of Michael declaring himself a Jew to defend a hanged Star of David on a fig leaf — Michael the Ark Angel cast out for being too Catholic and too improvisational.