{"id":1799,"date":"2009-09-13T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2009-09-13T00:14:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T04:14:43","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-13-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/13\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-13-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 13 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1800\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/Carriere_Belleuse_Pierre_The_Ballerina.jpg\" alt=\"Carriere_Belleuse_Pierre_The_Ballerina\" width=\"240\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/Carriere_Belleuse_Pierre_The_Ballerina.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/Carriere_Belleuse_Pierre_The_Ballerina-157x300.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>: Frye has a dream about living in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Stalingrad\" target=\"_blank\">war-ravaged Stalingrad<\/a>; reflects on &#8220;racial stereotype thinking&#8221; and the &#8220;Gestapo&#8221; of Moncton, New Brunswick.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[110] \u2026 Last night I dreamed I was living in Stalingrad with a Russian family: the wife a beautiful slim girl copied from some picture of a ballerina. They asked me how I got there &amp; I said quite simple, B.C.-Pacific-Siberia, the Russian transportation system is wonderful east of Stalingrad \u2013 you\u2019d hardly know there was a war on. An old woman came &amp; knocked on the door: she was an evil malicious gossip, inquisitive &amp; interfering, &amp; well known to be a German spy. The girl said, \u201cNo, you can\u2019t come in: go away, you old tart.\u201d Yet we all had the feeling that sooner or later she <em>would<\/em> come in, &amp; would order us around as she liked. The I suddenly heard cannonading, which I\u2019d been only vaguely conscious of before, &amp; I knew the Russians had retreated another ten miles. Gradually the old hag forced her way into the vestibule, soldiers (German) starting pouring in, &amp; I woke up.<\/p>\n<p>[111] I often wonder about intuitive racial-stereotype thinking: a lot of it is balls. For instance, there\u2019s a big good-natured German in Moncton called Lichtenberg who had been a peaceful, thrifty, industrious contractor there for thirty years. For two wars the local <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gestapo\" target=\"_blank\">Gestapo<\/a> have cut their teeth on him: when the new is bad or they get tired of reading spy stories they\u2019d go up and practice on him. Recently the Gestapo combed his whole house over, in response to some silly anonymous \u201ctip,\u201d &amp; one of them found two large knobs in a dark closet. \u201cAha!\u201d he said, stepped into the closet &amp; gave one a twist, thinking of course it was a private transmitter set. It was an extra shower he\u2019d installed. Incidentally, he\u2019s a naturalized Canadian citizen, but married before that, so his wife, who belongs to one of the oldest Maritime families, is an enemy alien. Well, Dad\u2019s friendship for Lichtenberg has come in for much unfavorable comment in that stinking little kraal Moncton, &amp; the stinkers point out gleefully that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/xq\/asp.fc\/qx\/frye-family-crest.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Frye<\/a>\u201d is really a German name, &amp; that I look just like a German. It\u2019s a beautiful theory, only it just happens to be wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1942: Frye has a dream about living in war-ravaged Stalingrad; reflects on &#8220;racial stereotype thinking&#8221; and the &#8220;Gestapo&#8221; of Moncton, New Brunswick. [110] \u2026 Last night I dreamed I was living in Stalingrad with a Russian family: the wife a beautiful slim girl copied from some picture of a ballerina. 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