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...walls feature some crazy line-shot murals of Boston landmarks--their chief virtue being that they are placed on an angle, therefore forcing you to crane your neck. The Green Line's Riverside extension is the only subway line in America that stops so golfers can pick up their stray golf balls. Drivers on the Green Line need great dexterity--kids usually line the bridges atop the line and hail rocks down on the big green sitting ducks. The best couple of jobs in town are owned by the men who direct the second car on the two trolley hook...
Actually, as a practical matter, Friedrich maintains all sorts of assumptions about madness. They are simply never consistent, more examples of his speculative incoherence. Mostly these assumptions consider that normal functioning in society and antiseptic personal well-being are signs of sanity: stray from these criteria, and you run the risk of being mad. In fact, one can easily be crazy according to Friedrich. It takes no eccentricity whatsoever. Apart from the obvious clinical and inveterate sorts of sickness most of us would call madness, Friedrich is constantly holding up types of behavior whose craziness is considerably less apparent. Among...
January 14--Early morning. Automatic-weapons fire chattered last night outside as we tried to sleep, hoping that only stray dogs were being shot. The sadness at times is overwhelming...
...room maintained at optimal temperature and humidity, at precisely the same time each morning, immediately followed by lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also probably made use of his "spare mind"--catalogued files of index cards which contain each idea he has had about psychology, and the date it occurred...
...enumerating under one's breath the minor pleasures in life, the things that--if they bring no new thrills or reasons to go on living--at least stay predictably comfortable. The rich nap of carpeting in Hilles as one crams for an hourly. Nothing to cry Hosanna about, just stray bits of civilization left stranded in an increasingly decivilized world...