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...notebook leaves little doubt that the Harrises, at least, were aware of their son's problems and had taken steps to get him help. The papers also further document Eric's now well-known preoccupation with Nazis, Charles Manson and Napalm...
...taken pains to distance himself from neo-Nazis. He acknowledges that anti-immigrant sentiment is giving the Klan "fertile ground for recruiting," whereas a few years ago "they could have held a convention in a phone booth." "Illegal immigration and the destruction of the rule of law is social napalm, and people are running around with matches," he warns. "One day it will...
...ugly, she looked out her window and was arrested for indecent exposure! 10) Asking me to analyze any of Hemingway’s texts constitutes sexual harrassment. 11) Oh, I was prepared for a different type of oral… 12) I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 13) How much would it cost to bribe you? 14) Fuck you! I already have a banking job. 15) Is the proper term for a dwarf “midget” or “little person?...
Another problem has been the tarnished image of science itself. Catchphrases that felt inspiring in the 1950s--"Better living through chemistry," "Atoms for peace"--have a darker connotation today. Du Pont, which invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context...
Lions and skeletons rush past, planes fly over jungle scenes and drop napalm, all within the open ruled pages, before each bricolaged scene collapses back into the raw material of his textual meanderings...