Word: identifreak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Does the list seem familiar? It is. But if Newlove applies his Instant Identifreak Kit too patly and produces some characters who are hardly more than bundles of attributes, many of his human inventions swell like bullfrogs from the sheer pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves...
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