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...acquiesce ignobly!" 2) "Don't evade craven-lyi" 3) "Don't .attack vindictively!" 4) "Don't rush rashly!" The Three Do's: 1) "Do grapple courageously!" 2) "Do cooperate creatively!" 3) "Do adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts one's emotional score on a "Mood Meter" which contains 30 ratings from + 15 ("Ecstatic") to -15 ("Miserable"), with such in-between moods...
Hughes made few prejudgments about the people that passed his way, and knew that few judgments--least of all those one makes about oneself--are final. He was not so absorbed in his own purposes as not to notice what was going on around him. And often enough it was the the funny side of things that got his attention, in beseiged Madrid for instance, where Franco broadcasted each day the Falangists' dinner menus to the hungry loyalists, and where he and his friends would play Jimmie Lunceford's "Organ Grinder's Swing" all night to drown out the noise...
...Book. In Trapani, Sicily, after he tried to commit suicide and missed, Giuseppe Cavallo was jailed, told it is illegal to shoot oneself without a firearms permit...
...would it seem to find oneself in an assembly of assorted saints? Short of going to heaven, the best way to answer that question is to dip into the four lively and curious volumes of Butler's Lives of the Saints, just published in a brand-new bicentennial edition (Kenedy; $39.50). The saints are anything but a dull crowd...
...free hours (he practices and reads scores eight hours a day before a performance), Gould studies other composers (major influences: Schoenberg, Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss), reads omnivorously (favorites: Kafka and Thomas Mann), dodges social activities. "If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work," he says, "cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing...