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...tendency to boast is, after all, merely part of the larger discipline of keeping the ego in check. And why should anyone wish to do that? Simply because the main thing that traps people into spiritual emptiness is some sort of berserk ego. Says Psychologist Shirley Sugerman in Sin and Madness: Studies in Narcissism: "The ancient wisdom of both East and West [tells] repeatedly of man's tendency to self-idolatry, self-encapsulation, and its result: self-destruction...
Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman have a fertile subject in Morrison, a reckless and unreconstructed mythomaniac who made the Doors into a band better known for their own notoriety than their reheated acid rock. Before he bloated his body with booze and fried his brain with various combinations of pharmacological excess, Morrison, the son of a rear admiral, was as stunning as a model. He was also the self-appointed model for the self-destructive rock idol...
...authors drag Morrison along from his military-brat childhood to his frenetic rambling around the Los Angeles music scene of the '60s, where he knew how to hold center stage, even lying on his back. Hopkins and Sugerman relate how Morrison, spread out on the studio floor, prepared for the first Doors recording session by chanting a primal litany of incest and patricide. The authors provide little evidence that Morrison grew much in the five years following this session, not emotionally, certainly not aesthetically...
KIRKLAND (3): Davis, 3b; Carr, ss; Moser, p; Kessler, c; Spring, lf; Marks, 2b; Howe, rf; Abrams, cf; Ross, 1b. DUDLEY (0): Turesky, 2b; Simons, ss; Linchitz, c; Bronstein, p; Murphy, 1b; Sugerman, 3b; Cohen, cf; Kalman, lf; O'Neill, rf. Subs: Mazel, rf; Skinner...
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