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...fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege...
...appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again in separate dooms...
Died. Altaf Husain, 68, editor from 1945 to 1965 of Dawn, Pakistan's biggest English-language daily; of a heart attack; in Karachi. A longtime friend of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, Husain was a neutralist in foreign affairs, in recent years had much to do with Pakistan's shift from the West towards stronger ties with Communist China and the Soviet Union...
...enough worlds for a playwright. The city imbues him with conflict, crisis, tension. The city moves at a kinetic tempo; drama catches the beat. Like an opulent genius of creation, the city sketches a hundred finely shaded variations on a common human type, stages a thousand impromptu confrontations from dawn to dawn. All this is the adrenaline of drama, and in the U.S., only New York provides...
...sure got a lot of gall to be so useless and all, muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall. How can I explain? It's so hard to get on. And these visions of Johanna have kept me up past the dawn." The Dylan that is out in the hall is the Dylan that's lying in bed wondering about what the "little boy" Dylan has been doing up to now. His songs are "muttering small talk at the wall." Later he wonders in his visions if life after death ("salvation") is a museum...