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...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...
Soon Vesta has made the poet "normal" and "sane" by making him no poet at all. Brainwashed into a wholly new identity, Enderby emerges as Piggy Hogg, an inarticulate London bartender and retread "useful citizen"-the welfare state's version of death and transfiguration...
...chalking on the wall, "'Up against the wall, motherfucker,' from a poem by Leroi Jones." I get some chalk and write "I am sorry about defacing the walls, but babies are being burned and men are dying and this university is at fault quite directly." Also I draw some SANE symbols and then at 2:30 a.m. go to sleep...
...Bellow, Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham-works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic. The gods are dead and their graves untended, morality is a matter of picking one's way between competing absurdities, and the only sane reaction to society-to its alleged truths and virtues, its would-be terrors and taboos-is a cackle or a scream of possibly cathartic laughter. Sex in particular is the target, and the black humorists especially have been stripping away its pretensions to holiness, love mystery and galactic consequence...
...currents of Vladimir Nabokov or write a better analysis of the nature of parody than the very good one that appeared as preface to the anthology he was reviewing. And it is somehow endearing to know that the same hand that wrote The New Yorker's sane, knowledgeable review of James Joyce's recently discovered fragment Giacomo Joyce, also turned out the epic 1960 farewell to Ted Williams, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...