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Which leads to a scary though--what if the Red Sox, by some random act of God, were actually to deliver the goods to their demented followers? The very frustration that defines the existence of these types would be resolved. They would have no more reason to exist. Jonestown...
...primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment. And yet, unless the slaughter has some especially lunatic human interest, as Jonestown did, we move on soon enough to other business. All of that death dissolves by and by into a form of abstraction...
...disasters and space shots and pageants. It has become difficult for the solitary writer wringing his psyche over the Smith-Corona to compete with all that bounces down from the satellite. Besides, reality in the late 20th century is somehow more inventive than the literary imagination Its plots (Jonestown, for example) are weirdly fertile, fatally ingenious. The idly speculative Connolly list, in any case, is Premature. It requires death and time to complete the writers myth. The Japanese have a macabre genius for the process. Their best writers-Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima, for example-have established a tradition...
...successful, that's good, and that's what we have to work toward....What we're living with, ultimately, is a northern hemisphere, if not worldwide, Jonestown. And that is something we have to work to prevent...
...union men, the worst enemy of all is Reaganomics. Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, says that the Reagan Administration is practicing "Jonestown economics," giving "Kool-Aid to the poor and the deprived and the unemployed in this country," a reference to the mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 in which the deadly potion was a soft drink laced with cyanide. After Kirkland made the characterization at the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Vice President George Bush, a visitor at the session, accused him of "groping for a headline...