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Word: komix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with Good as Gold is that Heller is never content to stay with Washington as Kafka Komix. He insists on ventriloquizing bleak pronouncements on the state of the union: "Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there." Or, "No society worth its salt would watch itself perishing without some serious attempt to avert its own destruction. Therefore, Gold concluded, we are not a society. Or we are not worth our salt. Or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking About the Unspeakable | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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