Word: supe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Sherrill Hedges, commandant of cadets, is a pathologically ambitious martinet who tries to cover up the killing; his plan, an elaborate tangle of implausibility, is to make it look as if the academy's superintendent had ordered the coverup. That done, Hedges can take over as the supe of what cadets call "Woo Poo." But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying to take Richmond...
...dying; sex is struggling against your own selfishness and through the pain of your own thinking to find the other struggler and struggle with him. Sometimes hating the one you're fucking is the best way to love him- anyway it's violent, athletic, rhythmic, musical, and takes supe-rintellectual coordination. The final emotion is great impersonal happiness as if you had jumped off a subway run up the satires hopped onto the waiting bus which immediately leaves for the airport where the last seat is empty which you slide into just as the engines are fired...