Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somebody forgot to push the right button, Jesus, so all hell broke loose. Airline schedules are loused up, somebody is shouting at somebody else who can't help the situation, a lot of money has been lost, and about two dozen people are caught up in a cybernetic tangle. We've missed our plane, which isn't our fault, and I was due in Chicago to participate in a meeting forty-five minutes ago. Please cool everybody off, Lord, including...
Another New York fop? Maybe. But the accent is still there (he says the hell with it, instead of the hell with it) and his off-stage manner is slow but concise, always searching for the right word: unhip, unfunny, but firm. The pudgy, chinless, spoiled-boy face creases slightly, the lower lip sucks in, and then Wolfe speaks--rephrasing himself once or twice in case you didn't get it the first time around...
...survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell, I'm going to take pictures no matter what happens,' there is a mystic rapport, somehow, between you and the animals. At that point, I am just as high as a human being...
...SYSTEM OF DANTE'S HELL by LeRoi Jones. 154 pages. Grove Press...
...Author Jones, who is now 31 years old, makes reference to evacuation-generally to some form of erotic evacuation. The filth is rationalized as social protest and enshrined in religious allegory: Jones explicitly identifies himself with Dante ("Dante, me") and describes his life as a Dantesque descent into a hell called America, in which the devil is a white man and his victims are all Negroes named LeRoi Jones...