Word: cuckooed
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...Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell--keeping perfect time for eight minutes and twenty-three seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year...
...demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell...
...ACID has flowed under the bridge since Ken Kesey dropped his first cap of Sandoz nine years ago. Ken Kesey, the novelist who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), is--if one were to believe Tom Wolfe's chronicle of his recent life--responsible for a lot. Hippies, for example, communal living, flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that...
...Mythology. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a kind of nonfiction novel about Ken Kesey, the celebrated author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It is a more serious and successful attempt to proselytize the antic way of freaky esthetics. It may even be considered the New Testament of hip mythology: Wolfe implies a likeness between Kesey and various religious figures-including Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. In 1964, Kesey forsook the literary world, having already established an LSD cult in La Honda, Calif. Wolfe records the events, carefully drawing religious parallels...
...authentic selves can best be seen, says Fiedler, in a myth-busting novel such as John Barth'g The Sot-Weed Factor, which purports to relate the naked, ribald truth about Pocahontas and John Smith. Fiedler also singles out Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes...