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...course it never lasts. Still, it always comes as something of a shock when it suddenly hits you that romance is based on calculation, on practicality, on fraud. This is what drives lovers to the edge. It is the stuff of razor blades and diatribes against the hated sex. It is what drives people to break car windows late Saturday night when the last bar is closed and possibility is dead for another week. It hits all the harder since you go into the thing with deliberate tunnel vision. It is ultimately the slow drying out, the embitterment that separates...
...agent provocateur, as when she goes undercover to write a piece on a New York est class. Her perfectly timed charges, wired together in a tightly-structured essay, totally demolish Werner Erhard's sham life-training course. When she turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist issues...
...appeal of Morrison and the Doors is rooted both in a high school home-room taste for excessive behavior (one episode details how Morrison and a mistress frolicked in her blood, extracted with a dull razor and caught in a champagne glass) and in the insatiable adolescent craving for getting the older folks steamed. There is no steam in George Harrison's / Me Mine; most of the excess is in the price. Available by subscription, the book is hand-bound in fine leather, its pages gilded like some special presentation edition of the King James. It sells...
...FALL IN LOVE and you plunge in blind like a little boy in a swimming hole and you find that her cervix is a razor, and all the vascular urgency of your passion lies split bleeding across the severe edge of experience, and what do you do? When Eros lies manacled in debtor's prison? When all the meat is sucked out of your egg, and all that remains is a thin calcic parody of what might at least have been an omlette? God created women to provide life with a metaphor for itself, and the name of that life...
...distinction is far from clear between the strong social pressure that the Pope seems to endorse and the overt political action that he has forbidden. In Brazil, that line has become a razor's edge...