Word: dj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quivering Wings. In the fierce wind at Djémila, he finds the natural renewal that defies the despair leading to suicide: "The violent bath of sun and wind drained me of all strength. I scarcely felt the quivering of wings inside me, life's complaint, the wea' rebellion of the mind. Soon, scattered to the four corners of the earth, self-forgetful and self-forgotten, I am the wind and within it, the columns and the archway, the flagstones warm to the touch, the pale mountains around the deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply...
...fact, the book is a wildly turgid monologorrhea narrated by "D.J.," an 18-year-old Dallas scion, who spews obscenity like-like Norman Mailer. DJ...
calls himself "Disc Jockey to America," suggesting that his stream of consciousness represents the whole nation on the couch. As for the story, and mercifully there is one, DJ. loves-hates his rich father, a victim of all alleged Texas hang-ups, notably insecure masculinity. Mailer plunks father, son and a couple of unholy Texas ghosts in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range on a safari in search of manhood. Naturally, they cheat: in orgiastically killing a wolf, numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer...
...records, and switches the "air" for music to an announcement or ad when he gets a hand signal from the announcer. This method is slightly cumbersome, but it worked well when the changes from record to record to "spot" are few. It does not work well when a DJ uses all 45's, which must be changed every two or three minutes. It results in too much "dead air" - time when nothing is being broadcast...
Commercial stations solve this problem by using what are called tape cartridges. Tape cartridges have all the spots needed on them. The DJ merely inserts the cartridge he wants, and pushes a button when he is ready for it. He also has a high speed record changer, to cut down the dead air time between records. With a tape cartridge system and high speed changers, there is no need for a separate controlman--the DJ does the whole show himself...