Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dillon himself is an artist, an actor-playwright to be specific--and a thorough second-rater. Like Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, he is suffering from "the pain of being alive," and it stings him into delivering tirades, presumably on the authors' behalf, concerning such matters as religion, the middle-class mind, and the relationship of life to art. These tirades are neither so long, so frequent, nor so good as Jimmy Porter's similar tirades, but they are well...
Dillon is suffering from the particular pain of being an artist, and the even more poignant and particular pain of not being a good one. "What is worse," he says, than the "disease" of talent...
What is worse is having the same symptoms as talent, the pain, the ugly swellings, the lot--but never knowing whether the diagnosis is correct. Do you think there may be some kind of euthanasia for that? Could you kill it by burying yourself here--for good? ...Would the warm, generous, honest-to-goodness animal lying at your side every night, with its honest-to-goodness love--would it make you forget...
...resultant "pain and mental anguish" plus lost wages (he is still not back at work), Huggins' suit demands a jury trial and $450,000 damages from Dr. Graves and the hospital owners...
...satire of the modern scene is sharp, and cuts particularly deep since in America there don't seem to be even any shabby unsuccessful humanists left for a comparison--everybody is like Hulot's ludicrous in-laws. But you're laughing so much that you don't feel the pain...