Word: sleepwalking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spirochete has destroyed or degraded each life with which he has come in contact. Spiro may be a human parasite, but at least he is true to his instinctual self. The Irvines and Helen Bristows are spiritual nomads, Author King implies, with no selves to be true to. They sleepwalk through reality, wrapped in romantic visions and do-good illusions, until (paraphrasing Eliot) human voices wake them and they drown...
...scores his first-novel romance with a bustling big-city sound track. Subway doors snap shut like guillotines, shreds of dirty newspapers swirl along the avenues instead of autumn leaves, a joyless Village party gets high on marijuana and low on clothes; and all the time the two lovers sleepwalk their poignant way between the steel-and-glass monuments and the human ruins...