Word: rants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shillitoe, poet, souse, womanizer and pratfalling Prometheus, might be the worshipful nephew of Joyce Gary's artist-as-an-old-grog, Gulley Jimson. The resemblance extends to the knockabout plot, kept in motion by Shillitoe's talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops and his tendency to rant at strangers. Even at the end, when Shillitoe is strapped to the operating table while the lobotomist's needle probes to discover whether truth is beauty, his plight is reminiscent of Jimson clinging to his wall and painting his soaring mural while the walls threaten to fall down about...
...building with clear eyes as a man living in this time and this place, and to imagine how he might try to express the vitality, life, and peculiar spirit of our community. Wouldn't the vision come closer to Sert's product? The less creative alternate is to rant and rage endlessly, in darkness and without understanding. Stanley Milgram Assistant Professor of Social Psychology
...could rant on like this for some length, but it wouldn't do any good. The Summer School has never had a commencement, and it never will. You'll have to do your own reflecting...
...lives in the "beat hotel," a fleabag shrine in a section of Paris where passers-by move out of the way for rats. There in a worn grey room the worn grey man has written three other novels. The Soft Machine, the immediate sequel to Naked Lunch, repeats the rant of its predecessor with far less coherence; the improvement may be explained by Burroughs' solemn assurance that much of his writing is dictation from Hasan-i-Sabbah. founder of the eleventh century hashish-eating Ismaili cult, the Assassins. The two most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That...
Richard III is early Shakespeare, and it is also very windy Shakespeare. More princes rant, more queens keen, and more nobles bemoan than in any play of comparable length (there are, to be sure, very few plays of comparable length). Richard himself is certainly villainous and unscrupulous, even though the only motive ever put forward for his villainy is simply that he enjoys himself no end by being consummately nasty. But he is better than villainous: he is memorable. And he is memorable because he refuses to take the rantings of his fellows seriously. Everything they say is humbug...