Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opens in a hospital ward, where the gauze bandages turbaning every head suggest that the patients all have something wrong up there. In the case of Patient Edwin Spindrift, a Ph.D. and lecturer on linguistics, this seems to be indisputably so. His libido is dead. Ink smells like peppermint to him, hot fat like violets. At the least provocation, Spindrift takes off on obsessive journeys to the roots of words. "What's the difference between 'gay' and 'melancholy'?" asks the doctor. "One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins. "One is of French, the other...
...feels a special sense of community and understanding which makes the act so much more enjoyable." Another student mentioned that he became particularly aware of conflicting drives while he was on LSD, especially the sexual drive. As he described it in Freudian terms: "the id surfaced and discharged its libido...
...band changed its formation from "sex" to "libido," the announcer would note, "Freud would have remarked that some at the game sublimate their instincts by kicking and throwing a ball, while others direct their energies to other ends." Then the band would race euphorically around the gridiron to form the word "Lolita" and would play "Thank Heaven for Little Girls...
Into this hotbed of the libido fall Tom and Nancy. Tom hates brown and green so much that he covers every inch of Colin's living room, including the windows, with white paint. Nancy, cloth-capped and wide-eyed, just in from the provinces, starts out looking for the YWCA. But, as she observes when Tom and Colin lift the antique bed on which she is sitting, "I've been picked up, haven...
...with cosmic clichés ("In my opinion the wickedest and unworthiest of men are generally the most rewarded"). He shows little understanding of his venomous pupil, perhaps because Sheean's Nero is not a character at all but a dim amal gam of perfumes, painted lips and libido. In all, Sheean has taken one of history's wise men living in one of its most scandalous eras and produced a dry tract full of petty non sequiturs...