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Ionesco once revealed: "I try only to explain myself ...I have decided not to recognize any laws except those of my own imagination." It follows, since the great restriction of our time (as Ionesco sees it) is dogma, that the writer must declare his freedom from the ideological discipline most vociferously. And when he concludes that there is no Message, he does so with pride rather than despair. The process by which Ionesco's heroes are forced into aloneness by an encroaching world is (ironically) a victorious and heroic one. Their solitude is the glorification of their individualism...
Because of the position of these two groups--the intolerance of the first and the reluctance of the second--and, more important, because of the apathy of most citizens, the Massachusetts Blue Laws remain the lever by which the social and religious dogma...
...Words." The reason for such limitations is the U.S. dogma of "vocabulary control"-holding down each reader to only a few new words. The rules are often "downright exquisite," says Trace. Widely used readers boast that "no new words" appear for 100 pages or more; the old words are endlessly repeated; the stories are inevitably dull. "Insipid, trivial, inane, pointless," Trace calls them...
...Jesuit Wilkin's solution, unbaptized babies get into heaven, but not until the end of the world. On the last day, when Christian dogma holds that Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead, the Gospel specifies that there will be a general resurrection of all who have died since the world's beginning-including those in hell...
This in effect will put an end to the institution of death, which dogma says is a consequence of original sin. Thus, Father Wilkin argues, original sin will obviously be wiped from the books along with death. And since the only sin the unbaptized infants have against their account is original sin, they will then be free to enter into heaven. Grownups have committed other sins, and in the Last Judgment they will be condemned to expiate them in purgatory or suffer for them forever in hell, but not so the babies. "The unbaptized infants go to heaven." writes Father...