Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mailer who in a sense looked West, looked ahead, looked out to the horizon at that fiery outer rim: it was important to see who might fall off, and for what mad or ironic reasons, and in what style they would go over: screaming the sissy begging of pardons, or spitting and pissing into the flames? Styron looked South, looked back to where the land was burned out or spiritually polluted or lying fallow, and empty souls stood whispering their personal regrets: for him it was more important to consider what might have been than what might yet be. Mailer...
...contemptible as my regard for medium. "Realism," Godard once said, "is never exactly the truth, and the realism of cinema is obligatorily faked." In Vent de L'est, even the lies are faked, and the incessant, didactic narrators are finally to be trusted no more than capitalists, mad dogs or artists...
...makes you mad. It can inspire you to hate. But not the kind of hate you might feel towards our President or Marshall Ky. Rather, blind hate, as you might feel towards someone who accidentally ran his car over your dog. We are entitled to some blind hate, but Joe seeks to direct our hatred towards an entire segment of the population, a segment that presumably, like our own, defies generalization...
...makes you mad. It can inspire you to hate. But not the kind of hate you might feel towards our President or Marshall Ky. Rather, blind hate, as you might feel towards someone who accidentally ran his car over your dog. We are entitled to some blind hate, but Joe seeks to direct our hatred towards an entire segment of the population, a segment that presumably, like our own, defines generalization...
Ginsberg and friend sing the "Introduction" with mad abandon accompanied by guitar and flute. The melody is so natural and tailored to the poem that it becomes easier to believe that Blake did sing this happy song into Ginsberg's ear, except that Ginsberg claims this particular tune for his own musical talents...