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Flem rises because he has no humanity to blur the cold, hyper-rational clarity with which he uses other people's weaknesses. When he outgrows the back country and moves to Jefferson (in The Town and The Mansion), his tribe begins to infiltrate and increase. There is Montgomery Ward Snopes the pornographer, Wat Snopes the carpenter, Virgil Snopes the barber and brothel athlete, and a score of others. When Flem takes over the Sartoris Bank, his success is proof of the loosened grip of the older, principled families...
...alter consciousness. "There is a weariness in the West," he writes, "a weariness with humanism itself which underlies all the movements of our world, a weariness with the striving to be men." And he sees these writers in love with that weariness saying in effect: "Let the focused consciousness blur into the cosmic night; let the hallucinatory monsters bred of fragmented consciousness prowl that night again; let the perilously sustained absurdity of the 'soul' be abandoned...
...reserved for a small elite speaking an argot no one else understands, much of the current worker-boss strain may vanish as men relate to machines rather than one another. This has already happened to Air Force men tending the SAGE warning system. Ranks seem to blur, says one officer. "All of the interaction seems to be with the electronic system," he explains...
...critical incense, as happened to Nathanael West. But West raged at chaos, and rage can be read as hate, which is a suitable cult emotion. Wallant's transcendent gift was for compassion, and in his writing compassion is so clear and so strong that no willful misreading can blur it to the cult-currency of hate or despair...
...sable (for $80) to customers who want to match their coats. Women like them so much that they are wearing as many as three sets (layer upon layer) at a time, achieving a wild, bushy-eyed effect. Their lids may droop under the burden and their vision blur, but there seems to be no end in sight for the whole blinking business...