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...mind of the Wasp bears more resemblance to the laser than the mind of any other ethnic group," said Mailer. "To wit, he can project himself 'extraordinary distances through a narrow path. He's disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination. He's profoundly nihilistic. And this nihilism found its perfect expression in the odyssey to the moon-because we went there without knowing why we went...
...bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared in all the newsreels...
...this prophetess Susan Sontag? In her Cioran essay she gives us a glimpse: "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of... ruins in the making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era of permanent apocalypse...
Violence was thus an early fact of student life. No morals inhibited French radicals as they did American activists. Violence was taken for granted and French students were stoical about the results. An anarchist friend of mine after being severely beaten in a fight dragged himself into a small alleyway and lay silently bleeding until the police went away and his friends came back to take him to the hospital...
...terms. All arbitrary mood and no movement can't help making for a dull book. "Nothing is necessary any more," concludes the non-hero cryptically as he is being buried. "But neither is anything unnecessary." That phlegmatic formulation ought to come as some sort of wan, stoical triumph. In context it seems pretentious and enigmatic...