Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arnold was a striver. Hercules had no small dose of Prometheanism himself, even for his 20 years, although he sometimes thought he would be happier with a house in the suburbs, kids, maybe a Cuisinart, but no novel burning inside him. Hercules wondered if Arnold missed the bourgeois mellow life...
...bottom line is, I do miss it sometimes, yes, especially when I'm on the road a lot, then whenever I go back to California I usually visit friends who have families and this way I get a feeling a little bit of that kind of family life--the dog, the cat, the children around screaming, this and that...
...point, to Hercules at least, was that Arnold had these goals, that he had dedicated himself, made something out of nothing. People cavilled about bodybuilding, what a thing to dedicate your life to! Hercules didn't see that but he believed it didn't matter what you dedicated yourself to, it was even better if it was absurd. Hercules saw gleamings of Arnold the Existentialist...
...times Mr. Olympia, but still a big kid, he walked like a big kid, kind of lurching, walked right into cars on the way down the street. There really was something childlike about Arnold, Hercules decided, not in a bad way, but something refreshing in his simple outlook on life, his naive egoism, his sense of endless possibility. Hercules went back to the gym to lift weights...
From the man who just came out with The Secret Life of Plants--which is enough to make you stop and think right there--this album has definite religious undertones. First Dylan--now Wonder is born again? Believe it. (God is Love, Love is Blind, Stevie Wonder is Blind, so Stevie Wonder is...You figure...