Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling on his breakfast egg. The hovels of Dogpatch naturally sailed off into the abyss below...
...sounds almost like a Christian. He is not; he is a Nietzschean. He disdains pity and charity, preaches the importance of the here & now and a disregard for the future. His rule is absolute and his subjects may not question him: "He who questions is seeking, primarily, the abyss...
...Will you understand me? Or will you laugh at these thoughts of a 17-year-old girl? Tell me, why are we Germans never as free as other people? Are we so different from everyone else in the world . . . that again & again we must blindly run into the same abyss? . . . We young people, who have never learned to think for ourselves, will grow up like our parents . . . Does it have to be this way? Please help...
Shortly before he died, Munch told his doctor that his path had "always been along an abyss." Perhaps his lifelong habit of hard, passionate labor was what saved him from going over the edge. He bequeathed no less than 1,008 oils to the city of Oslo, along with wagonloads of drawings, watercolors and engravings. It was a rich and illuminating legacy...
...follow Holland, Sweden, and Switzerland--former great powers which have devoted themselves to the enrichment of world culture. "Today," he writes, "the anger over our humiliation should be turned against those who are to blame for it, against the overweening pride of those who led us to the abyss, and against the lack of judgement of those who subjected themselves to this leadership without any inner protest...