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...Speaker, small-time heroin peddler and barker for the Blue Note Lounge, a scumbucket strip joint in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The home is prison, out of which he is not likely to stay long. This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain...
...There's a tired old distinction that bright people will not be corrupted, | but that the working classes will," says Clive Barker, the English horror writer whose books have never been banned but whose films must be trimmed to get an R rating. "Therefore, television must be scrutinized more vigorously than pop music, pop music more than pop movies, pop movies more than art-house movies. Books needn't be watched at all. If people are reading, after all, they must be bright and won't be affected by all this stuff...
Perhaps today's youth is unshockable. And perhaps that fact should be shocking. "One of the things we all seek," says Clive Barker, "is the visionary experiences we had as children. We seem to have forgotten that those experiences are not soft and gentle, but often harsh and intense." For several American generations, a child's first entertainment experience was a Disney cartoon, with its wrenching traumas of betrayal, abandonment, a mother's death. An animated film could thrill a child to pieces or scare him near to death. And it introduced him to the beautiful and frightening banquet...
...Northeastern 0 0 2 0 00 1 3 5 1 HARVARD 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 Home Runs--N.U., none; Harvard, Decareau Northeastern IP H R ER BBK Sheehan (W) 7 3 2 2 3 7 HARVARD IP H R ER BB K Barker (L) 7 5 3 1 3 4 Huskies, 19-10 at Soldiers Field...
...inside each cell that triggers evolution; the postal clerk peruses dead letters by the carload in search of a secret code among the supernatural elect. They clash as men and then, having transcended mere morality through their discoveries, as ever more abstruse ! forms of energy. Like most fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive and the prose elegant in this...