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...help Strom, and Wallace is now ahead. In Florida, a vague desire to register a protest against both major parties has erased Nixon's earlier lead. His final campaign rally in Miami drew only a so-so crowd last week, and Nixon admitted that the state is "even, insofar as we are concerned and the third-party candidate." Humphrey runs a distant third...
...futility, he contends, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational act of all. For once man sees through his fictions, there can .be no rational basis for living, a judgment that recalls Camus' point: the only philosophical question is suicide. "I subsist and act insofar as I am a raving maniac," Cioran writes. "It is by undermining the idea of reason, of order, of harmony, that we gain consciousness of ourselves...
Some more speculation: Babe's use of film and other media conflicts with his rather pedestrian notion of a crowd of puppets--clown-like figures unable to stand straight who exist only insofar as they are manipulated by the tribunes or swayed by mass instinct. The crowd is conceived as pantomime, the movies as a sophisticated blend of film and drama, and the two styles belong to two different kinds of production. Shakespeare made the crowd puppet-like enough; Babe extends the metaphor and is heavy-handed...
...interesting distinction between nostalgic evocations of a West long since tamed in a net of superhighways, and the truer, mythological West of rebirth and renewal that is always in the future. "The real opposite of nostalgic," he says, "is psychedelic, the reverse of remembering is hallucinating, which means that, insofar as the New Western is truly New, it, too, must be psychedelic." So the Red Man reappears, bearing his gifts of marijuana and peyote that threaten 20th century values in much the same way as the white man's whisky threatened the Indian way of life. The New West...
...martinet in this regard: You do make a contract with your patient, and you have a sem-i professional relationship, insofar as you have a commitment. I also very much believe in activism--in getting the case-aide and patient to talk to the doctors, in discussing getting medication lowered if the patient thinks it's too high; in relating to the ward personnel, the nurses and attendants, and trying to learn from them even if one does not take everything they say at face value...