{"id":103888,"date":"2016-10-19T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103888"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:09:46","slug":"flowers-for-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/flowers-for-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers for Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103902\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/uninewworld.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103902\" class=\"wp-image-103902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/uninewworld.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valais, Switzerland, as depicted in the University of the New World\u2019s Winter 1971\u201372 General Bulletin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1973, I took a brief sabbatical from college to study in Switzerland at the University of the New World. I still have the small red course catalog somewhere. It was a school started by visionary hustler Al de Grazia, who had been a professor at Brown and \u2026 well, you should see what they offered: a faculty that included Allen Ginsberg, John Fahey, Ornette Coleman, Robert Motherwell, Immanuel Velikovsky, John Cage, Ram Dass, twenty-four-hour music rooms\/art studios\/libraries. There were stalls set up on the quad promoting it.<\/p>\n<p>The university was situated in a tiny canton just outside Sion. The university was actually situated somewhere deep in the recesses of Professor DeGrazia\u2019s mind. There was no university. It was, to be charitable, a work in progress. There were no libraries or music studios or art studios. There were no classrooms. There were no dormitories. There were no teachers. There were only a handful of students\u2014mostly from Antioch\u2014and we were all housed in rooms in a nearby ski lodge. From this distance I can\u2019t tell whether it was a scam or a pipe dream. I had to humbly ask to be readmitted to Brown, and Dean Hazeltine was sympathetic but let me dangle in the wind for a few weeks just \u2026 well, just to give me time to reflect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be an interesting time.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the second day, Immanuel Velikovsky turned up. It seems that he was as gullible as I\u2019d been. And as idealistic. He turned up with the Canadian filmmaker Henry Zemel, who was making a documentary on Velikovsky for the CBC. Tagging along was Zemel\u2019s best friend, Leonard Cohen, who\u2019d been deputized to narrate the film and to interview Velikovsky on camera about the sexuality of the cosmos. So I had a fine time: at night I sat up playing guitar with Leonard Cohen and watched him try to pick up beautiful Swiss girls. They were all wealthy, well dressed, and bored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know Bob Dylan?\u201d he asked one of them.<\/p>\n<p>She shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about Charles Aznavour?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a bit like Charles Aznavour. But younger,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot much,\u201d she pouted.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoons, I sat with Henry Zemel and Velikovsky in a house they\u2019d rented.<\/p>\n<p>Velikovsky, if you don\u2019t know, was a radical historian and scientist who studied with Freud in Vienna, but who shifted his work to the intersections of science and mythology soon after decamping to the States in the late 1930s to avoid the Nazis. He was best known for <em>Worlds in Collision<\/em>, a book that expanded on some of Darwin\u2019s theories, trying to prove that evolution was a response to cataclysm or disaster. He was a gracious, courtly man who insisted on holding lectures every day, even if I were the only student present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One day, there was a knock at the door. I\u2019d been in the kitchen with Velikovsky, helping him unload groceries. I walked with him to the door. There was a man in a long gray raincoat with a hat pulled down over his eyes. The sun was out, it was still afternoon, but he appeared as deep in shadow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Velikovsky?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay I come in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes?\u201d Velikovsky continued to stand there, courteous but watchful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have some information that might be of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Velikovsky tilted his head but said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was Hitler\u2019s astrologer,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Velikovsky nodded. \u201cYes. I\u2019m sure you were. But you\u2019re not today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then he closed the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now,\u201d he said, turning to me, \u201cnow we will wash our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Cullman is a writer and musician living in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1973, I took a brief sabbatical from college to study in Switzerland at the University of the New World. I still have the small red course catalog somewhere. 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