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The Testaments of John Davidson

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The oft-maligned Testaments of John Davidson work as a sublime, psychopathic post-Nietzchean (Zarathustra was merely Davidson's springboard into a deeper transcendence) prologue to his impending suicide in 1909. After a warmly receptive life of ballad making and the like (benevolent pedagogy and inclusion in the chintzy Rhymer's Club), a by then poverty-stricken, neglected Davidson could sharpen his mind toward the completion of a more pristine art. Subsequently, we are given the meanest gap between symbolism and modernism (an expressionistic, Schopenhauerian materialist monism in monologic profile a la Browning, a demented Kipling) on record, a Marlowe-level blank verse masterwork of the now, warping into a demented, ironically (intended or not, certainly unfunded and ignored by anyone in charge) nationalist individualism, a system of self-deification, the final scream of a decaying genius. (Summary by kilpatrick83) (4 hr 24 min)

Chapters

The Testament of a Vivisector

13:52

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The Testament of an Empire-Builder

43:56

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The Testament of a Prime Minister

56:47

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Excerpt from The Theatrocrat

3:31

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The Testament of John Davidson (Part 1)

33:06

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The Testament of John Davidson (Part 2)

42:28

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The Testament of John Davidson (Part 3)

22:34

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The Testament of John Davidson (Part 4)

39:30

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St. Valentine's Eve (Fleet Street Ecologues)

8:17

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