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...hypnotism: "You keep rollin' around my head/like a magnum that repeats." As the song fades, the drummer pummels an incessant jungle-cum-Bo Diddley beat, the guitars chime in, and then suddenly the musical avalance cascades out of hearing. This portends of things to come. The first side is tame, love-centered pop; this closing hints of the underlying energy to surface later...
...letters reveal how much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...
...shhh tame, mon frairi!" (passionate embrace...
...first, dating from the early Middle Ages, Ariès calls "the tame death," a calm acceptance of the end of life. He notes that in the Song of Roland and the Arthurian legends, heroes had premonitions of their deaths. In the final hour they prepared themselves with a simple, dignified ritual that reflected a world made whole by faith, community and a sense of common destiny. To die was to enter a long sleep until the day of resurrection...
...next transformations in death-style take place in the drawing rooms of the 19th century bourgeois family. Where once death aroused a pathos shared by a whole community, now the sense of privacy dominated thought and feeling. "Death," writes Ariès, "was no longer familiar and tame, as in traditional societies, but neither was it absolutely wild. It had become moving and beautiful like nature." Heaven, in turn, became a future home where one would be reunited with the dearly departed...