Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Notes from the Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kafka's The Trial, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents-by comparison with these masterpieces, even the best among today's Madness Revolution artists seem dilettantes. But the new madness has taken the visions in hell of the masters and vulgarized them as chic. Perhaps the change was inevitable. Plato's charioteer had become the fat cat in the back of the limousine. Reason too often has dried up into "common sense" and become a cover word for intellectual timidity. The failure of conventionalized reason...
...carrying out French Surrealist Andre Breton's definition of art as "a cry of the mind against itself." In Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man, a psychiatrist systematically freaks out, illustrating the advantages of what might be termed "planned madness." In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing suggests that madmen may be mankind's front-running mutants-the pioneers of "inner space," the avant-garde of a superior race to come. Even John Updike, a traditionalist by temperament, includes in his latest novel, Rabbit Redux, the obligatory resident madman, a "Christ of the New Dark...
...right you unfortunate people, here is the decree: 1) no jobs: because your group intelligence results show that you're a work risk: 2) no adequate welfare: because you could work if you wanted to and escape your "hell on earth": 3) no equal education: because educating your kind will lower both student and teacher standards: 4) no justice: because, for some odd reason, you won't cooperate with the system punishment for your dislike of our laws must be judiciously enforced even against your rebellion...
...Petersburg uprising, he was 26 and highly regarded for his political journalism. ("The Pen is here," cried Lenin's wife when a fugitive Trotsky barged into her London apartment at dawn.) While other Russian socialists spent themselves in factional squabbles abroad ("Deal with Russians," said Marx, "and all hell breaks loose"), Trotsky made his way back to St. Petersburg and the action...
...should I be mad? And you, YOU can sure as hell see ME. Why just step back into the woods with me about half a mile and my dog'll trot along to drag you out after I'm finished with you and your goddamn measly worm-eaten carcass...