Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"So I live at night; at night the hampsters creep away into their sawdust rooms, the rotten exhaust smell congeals and drains away down a sewer, and you can live, you can feel yourself breathe when you walk along an empty street; the world is yours because you're the...
"You can see all the dead meanings of the dead day behind you lying littered through the Square like those rubbish-flakes; and you can step on them as if they were rubbish, and your only fear is that they'll dirty your sneakers; don't you feel the power...
"He says, 'I can carry that away but can you carry by yourself a rocket?' "
While these good results may be paramount to the psychologist looking on the discipline prescribed in The Cloud as a kind of do-it-yourself therapy, they are mere byproducts to the true mystic, for whom union with God is the only aim. "If you desire to have this aim...
How to Murder a Rich Uncle (Columbia), another British entry, is advertised. with a lead ballooniness characteristic of the production, as "a do-it-yourself picture." The idea, suggested of course by the success of Kind Hearts and Coronets, was to be killingly funny, but this time the whimsy is...