Word: looks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what does a person with that out-look do, besides play a good, rough game of football? "I'm an absolute nut on sports car, racing. If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to get a Ferrari. And I subscribe to about fifty million sports car magazines...
...skunks, donkeys, wild boars, and alligators to get to the monkey cage? I have nothing to say to those animals. Another problem is the bears. All real bears seem to be wildly imperfect reflections of the ideal pooh. If you don't believe me, go to the Square and look for the girl who sells home-made bears, and says in a tiny voice, "Bears for sale." In the middle of the Square. The girl is so tender and exposed that I melt...
Most of the animals spend their time begging for food. This is demeaning for them, and if you look them in the eye, they get embarrassed and stop. Except for the otters, who have developed a routine of begging, arfing and clapping-hands which, though clearly stolen from the seals, forces anybody who has any money to go buy them some food. Otters have learned that to eat, you've got to cute, and to be cute, you've got to parody yourself...
Despite the vast quantities of premeditated bullshit there is still something there. Along with the music, and the dope, and the books that get passed around, there comes a feeling that goes much deeper than the outward signs of a particular lifestyle and forces the people involved to look away from the millennia as promised by Madison Ave. It promises something better. It is an answer to the angry helplessness of living in a jungle of machines you can't understand and of mass-produced ideas that are flung at you like cat-calls. Gather the feeling more closely about...
...feeling is fragmented now. It comes up in a song, a conversation, a book a friend tells you to read. The fragments are held together by the knowledge that others are trying as you are trying, and together you look for a way to make it whole, to make it something in which everyone may participate. Society fears a lifestyle different than its own, and so the experiments go underground where sympathy lets them grow into...