ACTUALLY IT IS KIND OF RELEVANT, LIKE WHITMAN, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HER.
I'll start reading Whitman's notebook now.
Disclaimer: I'm dyslexic, so reading handwriting is already a struggle for me.
Wow I can't read at ALL. This is incredibly frustrating for me.
At first I see some names, and I can't tell if those are dates or maybe addresses, so I'm going to guess both. It seems like Whitman finds significance in having these written down, although if they were really important to him you'd think he'd try to make them more legible. I believe below that it says brochure followed by "two characters," who I assume he is defining. There are stamp marks throughout. And I have no idea what this means or what I'm supposed to be doing with this information. "Lessons for a President's elect," soooo he's teaching presidents maybe, with his story notes. Neato. Yeah, honestly I'm getting a headache, I don't know how any of this is significant. This is what I imagine trying to write while under various influences would look like. It's scattered and disoriented in my opinion, like me trying to take notes in physics when Hartman goes on a verbal tangent. It's vague and a mess, in other words.
NOW THESE DRAWINGS, I am down for these drawings. Okay so, going on a whim, the one with the hat is President Elect, and hatless old guy is him. This is depicting their conversation, and wow I think if you had a head that big with a body that small you'd have to drag you head while you walk. Unless they are the same person and he put on a hat? I guess this would make more sense since they are both facing the same direction, they don't look like they are talking or looking at each other that's for sure.
The only other thing I can decipher is that there is a poem at the bottom that says something like "the last war" and a badass drawing of a skeleton ghost wearing a cloud with like.. Cat ears on top or something, getting stabbed through the massive heart. (This supports my under the influence theory, just putting that out there)
Looking at the translations I see he puts a lot of effort describing people and his caricatures support these depictions for the most part. And if I go back and look further at "The last war" line then at that drawing with the skull, (ignoring that the translation suggested it was an allegory) I absolutely see them as related. I think this is super significant in how he felt everything was going to play out: this would be the last war, and the United States was gonna be gone, or something of the sort.
Okay I have a headache, and I'm gonna stop now to laugh more at that Iggy Azalea rap translation.
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