Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodbye your're getting what you deserve to every person who ever told me to be anything else than what I wanted to be--aahhh-hhhh! a millimeter, a goddamn millimeter at a time, you can't take your eyes off it, like I don't know what--goodbye to every motherfucker who is happy, to every bastard who is unhappy, to that girl who loves me. . . . oh God. To that cop who moved me on, to books, to streets, to oceans--goodbye and crying the whole time because the scream is getting out--Fuck...
...drug is largely wasted on these people. There is no activity more ap- pealing to someone who has taken dexedrine than the reading of a book. The total fibre of the dexedrine-doped person's being is riveted to the ideas flowing to him out of the book. Not to the action of looking at the printed words, but to the act of understanding the expression of the author's mind...
Because this comprehension is so deep and so undistracted, the person can read books terribly fast. He can acquire all sorts of knowledge terribly fast. In fact, as he sits at this desk surrounded by open books, notes, papers and lists, he feels the urge to bring all his understanding together into one singular comprehension of how it all works. To do this, he constantly tries to work more rapidly...
THERE IS A limit to how much pain a person can take. After a certain point, you must either scream your lungs out or go crazy. Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band pushes both its characters and its audience within inches of that breaking point. It is one of the mammoth achievements in recent American theatrical history...
...CENTRAL feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns, they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...