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Into this "vehicle of total esthetic possibility" Dante impounds the complete experience of medieval man-an experience bestial in its earthiness and supernal in its spirituality. Dante sees man reverently and sees him whole: as an ape and an angel, as a worm...
...force of workers to build their elaborate machinery and package them in an abandoned potash mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean in what could be a mockery of the Jewish rites of forgiveness and absolution...
Asbell argues that machines will improve the quality of human life rather than degrade it. By eliminating unskilled jobs, modern technology will release millions of men and women from bestial drudgery. Instead of dehumanizing their makers, machines will give people new dignity and new intellectual stature. They will, in short, create a new improved American, a citizen as superior to the old brand of American as Sugar Pops are superior to Kix. "The argument here," Asbell says, "is that our new machines are finally forcing more of us into the grand quest of trying to discover ourselves as human beings...
...grew older, as dizziness, deafness and amnesia successively set in, Swift lapsed into "incessant strains of obscenity and swearing." A statute of lunacy was taken out against him, and he spent the last three years of his life sunk in bestial stupor. "I am what I am," he muttered not long before his death. "I am what I am." He was a Yahoo. Yet he was Lucifer too: the great sinner was also a bringer of light...
...young man doesn't have to look far. The morning after his first night with the widow, she is grotesquely murdered by the vengeful villagers. Some clays later, as Zorba's silly old slut lies dying, bestial peasants burst into her house and strip it while she lies weakly watching, strip it to the walls and leave her there alone with nothing but a bed to die on. And at the climax of the film the mine and all the money the young man has sunk in it go smash in one catastrophic afternoon...