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...predicted that the cultural hero of the future might be the "philosophical psychopath." That future has arrived, for Miss Lessing is not alone. To a psychiatrist like R.D. Laing, madness, the rationalist's despair, has become a romantic last hope. "Perhaps," agrees the French antinovelist Marguerite Duras, "a madman is a person whose essential prejudice has been destroyed...
...Allen Ginsberg had taken up tripping with Timothy Leary, and had made, with Leary, his journey to the East. William Burroughs, Harvard '36, author of Naked Lunch (for which Kerouac coined the title), had moved abroad. Neal Cassady, an incidental Beat writer better known as Dean Moriarty (the hero-madman in Kerouac's On the Road ), and the subject of a 600-page character study by Kerouac, Visions of Cody, had gone off to join Ken Kesey (whom Kerouac disliked), and then had beat Kerouac to the grave. Jack spent his last eight years in St. Petersburg, Florida, living what...
Preacher and Millionaire. In his self-projected role as the new savior of pan-Arab unity, Colonel Gaddafi evokes both shudders and admiration outside Libya. His unorthodox manner and outspoken views have prompted some Arabs to call him a madman. "He's the most childish ruler the Arabs have ever had," says a prominent Jordanian banker. A Western diplomat in Tripoli observes: "Arabs are used to Byzantine language from their leaders. What they get from Gaddafi is exactly what he thinks...
...trust Lerner." (Presumably, Coco Chanel also trusts Lerner.) The title role, naturally, is far more ticklish. The novel described Lolita as a "mixture of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity." And, as Humbert said, "you have to be an artist and a madman with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in order to discern by certain ineffable signs the little deadly demon among the wholesome children...
...call some of these homes "asylums," and the people inside them "madmen." When occasionally, as in Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, we are forced to enter an asylum, we see lunatics prancing, laughing, and shrieking. Frightened, we can still leave reassured, thinking, "So that's what a madman is like. Well, no one I know is quite like that. Thank...