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Departing from psychoanalitic interpretations, Wilder outlined seven experiences which he asserted made Melville an outcast and pariah. These included revolts against 10th century American religious training and American faith in unlimited progress...
Last week, as a result, the struggle to stimulate his avarice and his adrenal glands, channel his capacity for hero worship-and, at times, to threaten him subtly with the horrors of being a social outcast (see RADIO)-tied up whole brigades of high-powered executives and fortunes in speculative capital. Twenty-five million U.S. children in the most receptive age bracket (4 to 13) were tumbled ceaselessly in a sea of entertainment, while in the background bugles pealed, hoofbeats drummed, tires screeched, gunfire echoed and stentorian voices bawled the advantages of endless yummy products...
...argued: "One may reasonably think it wiser in the long run to let an unhappy, bitter outcast vent his venom before any crowds he can muster . . . One may trust that his patent impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
...where his execution seemed imminent, Lilje reached new depths of spiritual and physical suffering. But at this stage of utter helplessness he found his sense of God most sure. "At this extreme limit of human life," he writes, "it becomes clear why God is with those who are despised, outcast, tortured, imprisoned, disinherited and solitary...
...Worth Nothing?" In the end, outcast and betrayed, Jeremiah sends his last unheeded cry to the world: "I had longed to do justice in the world, and what was worthy of praise. Even if my longing was born in vanity and nursed in pride, is that longing to be wholly damned? . . . And in my crime and vainglory of self is there no worth lost? Oh, was I worth nothing, and my agony...