the eradication of diphtheria tetanus - Softcover

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The United States is well into the first authoritarian dictatorship of its entire history with more than thirty percent of the American voting population having succumbed to what most voters consider to be the sudden emergence of an unimaginable state of affairs.In the still tranquil confines of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. a middle-aged historian/curator accustomed to focusing on painterly details of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, nurtures an (outwardly wholly unexpected) adamant resolve to rouse his contemporaries and invoke an urgent reality. Within seven months of feeling utterly benighted by the new political regime, this shy master of aesthetic focus - Mr. Henry Christian - has now shifted his attention with military precision to the optic mount and other components of a deadly weapon in his hands.For his patriotic efforts, Christian will be massively captured and left to languish in the highest maximum security prison anywhere in the world. But he has an unusual cellmate, the younger Poibont, who is singularly motivated to goad, elicit and extract information from the art expert.Their conversations, under constant video surveillance, comprise an unsettling picture of unexpected heroism, ethical resilience and civic ambiguities in the face of tyranny, complicity and disorienting subterfuge.In the tradition of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” “the eradication of diphtheria tetanus” challenges every preconception of political and social apathy by laying bare the elusive but ultimately eruptive chain of thoughts that brings anonymity into a position of absolute clarity, conviction and effectiveness.Condemned to 150-square feet of cellblock, bereft of scenery, landscape, or action, Tobias’ two character, two-act play provides a bullet-proof window on the essence of revolution. Exploring the fragility of human history and all the lives swept away in its tumultuous paths, “the eradication of diphtheria tetanus” makes vivid and clear that tenacity lodged without surcease in all that we hold to be beautiful, virtuous and dear. A haunting political thriller of timely and unforgettable pathos that describes the assassination attempt you never heard about.

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