Word: kosinski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot describe Levanter with the mundane occupational lables that fit most people because tasks do not inform Levanter's existence. Instead, he becomes involved in "situations." Kosinski calls him an "investor," but this is not meant in the Wall Street sense. Levanter invests in himself and others. He invests in the relationsips he forms, "the only meaningful form of shareholding in life," according to Kosinski...
...then Levanter is quite clearly more interested in profit-taking than in long-term security. His relationships are intense, but they seldom last long. "If one perceives life as Levanter," Kosinski remarked, "then perhaps relationships do not last into eternity. Drama cannot be endlessly dramatic and relationships have different intensity at different times...
When the intensity ends, Kosinski continued, a person should not consider the end of a relationship a defeat, but merely a part of life. Too often "fraud creeps in and we drag on, the way we drag on with a profession or an apartment," he added...
Living dramatically, moving on to new experiences after old ones lose their intensity, requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. For Kosinski, the peculiarly American phrase "blind date" embodies this conception of a positive encounter with the unexpected. "A blind date has all the ingredients life should have," Kosinski said. A person embarking on a blind date perceives the next event in life "as a dramatic date...
...phrase also conveys "an excellent sexual connotation" since sexual curiousity impels one to take a chance and accept a blind date. But Kosinski twists the sexual implications of a blind date in his book, using the term to describe a rape technique Levanter learns as a teenager...