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Some of the tracks do escape this trap. For "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car," the Edge employs a scratchy metallic guitar groove with the reverb of Bono's vocals to obtain a psychedelic dance beat. This song about a friend's heroin addiction loses none of the artistic quality of the other songs, combining metallic pings and clanks with Bono's disembodied voice...
...present day West and Midwest and narrated by a young, unnamed heroin addict, the short stories in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son etch in steely detail a world where pain, violence and profound isolation are as regular as Happy Hour at the local bar. Beauty and horror alike commingle in visions of lyrical grace in the mind of the tortured hero. He ends the first story, "Car Crash," with a vivid hallucination and a cry to the reader: "And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help...
Others pointed to the nation's long, open borders, and insisted there was no way a free and open society could stem the oceanic flood of cocaine and heroin into the United States...
...acme of vapid pretension is reached by the former art dealer Klaus Kertess, who thinks Basquiat's drug addiction was in some large way socially therapeutic. "Heroin," Kertess opines, "seems to have played some role in the formation of the discontinuous maps of mental states that are his paintings and drawings. Heroin seems to have helped him fuse his line with his nerve endings as they responded to, parodied and sought to heal a disturbed culture...
...must add that I am astounded by the high number of intelligent people here at Harvard who smoke. Tobacco-related diseases kill many more Americans in a year that do AIDS, suicide, homicide, fires, car accidents, heroin, cocaine and alcohol combined, according to the American Cancer Society. If you sing, smoking is detrimental to your voice; if you are on the Pill, smoking is dangerous and stupid. It is in all of our best interests, smokers and non-smokers alike, for people not to smoke...