Word: communes
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Outside the narrator's semi-illusory world Emily continues to grow, and the world becomes increasingly sinister and dangerous. Emily's attempt to organize a commune of unprotected children fails, a victim to the increasing savagery of the others. The air becomes unbreathable, cannibalism becomes more common. As Emily becomes a woman, her protective composure breaks. She weeps the tears of the "eternal woman"--tears in which "it is not the pain...that is the point, no it is the finality of the acceptance of a wrong. So it was, is now, and ever must be, say those closed, oozing...
...attention and has notice, the need to be the one who sustained and comforted him, who connected him with the earth, who held him steady in her common sense and her warmth--this need drained her of the initiative she would have needed to be a leader of a commune. She wanted no more than to be the leader of the commune's woman...
...sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire results...
...surrealistically goes through many of the phases and feelings of a woman's life in a relatively short period. The narrative, so far as there is one, describes Emily's odd, intense relationships with her new guardian, with her lover Gerald (a natural leader who founds a commune), and Hugo her pet, a curious animal with the body of a dog and the face of a cat that seems to suggest the general mutation of the world, including the human race...
...Hair, More than any other cultural production of the decade, it summed up in a nest, consumable package the morality of a generation; the experimentation with sense and mind-expanding drugs, the filing with commune living, the brush with hippie hedonism, the swing with the sexual pulsation of rock music, the espousal of free love, the protest against the military-industrial complex, the let-it-all-hang-out of the be-in. The cult of hair...