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In this essay, the author recounts meeting a black soldier who shows him “the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li’l Abner.” This essay mentions an artist who “wanted to kill” the moonlight who was appointed to a position “which treated moonlight with great respect.” This essay uses Wittgenstein’s family resemblance to analyze the decreasing commonalities of abc, bcd, cde, and def. This essay notes how the “ersatz phallic exercise” of “[playing] with weapons” is a tendency of an archetypal (*) hero who is “impatient to die.” This essay calls Gabriele D’Annunzio “a dandy who in Germany or in Russia would have been sent to the firing squad.” Common properties of this essay’s title system include “selective (10[1])populism,” (10[1])“action for action’s sake,” and a “cult of tradition.” For 10 points, “Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt” (10[1])is the subtitle (0[1])of what essay by Umberto Eco (10[2])analyzing a political system? ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Ur-Fascism” [or “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt”; or “Il fascismo eterno”; or “Ur-Fascismo”] (The artist is Filippo Marinetti.)
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