The second tear says: How nice to be moved together with all mankind It is the second tear that

makes kitsch kitsch. According to Jean Baudrillard in this post-modern era, nothing original remains but rather everything is a copy/imitation of the original. This copy of the original what Baudrillard talks about is the kitsch Kundera talks about. In this sense The Grannd March becomes a grand simulacrum where the representations of things come to replace the things being represented. Comparing kitsch with Baudrillard and the late capitalist motif the sings of The Grand March seemed to exhibit reality or objective truth but the fact of the matter is that the commodified sign value of The Grand March is masking the reality. As a result the The Grand March is nothing but a big fiasco where Franz gets mugged and later dies at the hospital. Now a days it seems that for everything there is a grand march and people are there for their own cause. The Grand March has become a simulacrum of sign value drawing in fanatics like Franz. Tomas as an epic womanizer retains his own originality and earns the title of being a monster in the kingdom of kitsch. On the other hand Sabinas hat makes her unique/original. Excess of anything is another form of kitsch on its own and I do believe Sabins own lightness makes her an extreme kitsch fetish in the post-modern era. This extremism explains her infidelity and her inability to be one with all. Her extreme pessimism for kitsch makes her a fool when she denies excrement in a world (where she is living) full of excrements. She wants her ashes scattered, for she wants to be lighter than air. In the process her extreme craving to be light makes her a kitsch, for she wants to become a copy of the life-force that is keeping her clock ticking.