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...Desolation Row and Memphis Blues Again. It is peopled by meth freaks, lumberjacks, a man called Simply That, and a vaporous presence named Aretha with "religious thighs" and "no goals" who is described as "one step soft of heaven." A large supporting cast includes "mrs. Cunk," who sells "fake blisters at the World's Fair," Cardinal Spellman, Sherlock Holmes and Shirley Temple. The pages are liberally sprinkled with obscure metaphors and allusions to E.E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Shakespeare and Rabelais, scraps of song lyrics, even a self-composed epitaph: "here lies bob dylan demolished by Vienna politeness . . . bob dylan...
...writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...
...here because we are better game players than others our age. We may even be more competent than others our age. But facile game playing (learning to "fake it") and competence do not imply personal fulfillment any more than rationality presumes goodness. As Herbert Gintis says, "We must define the individual not by what he has -in the form of individual commodities-but by what he is and what he does -by his ability to undertake self-fulfilling activities...
...tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks, hook sharpener, pork rinds, floaters, stringer, sinkers and shelf upon shelf of popeyed flies, silver spoons, plastic worms, rubber frogs and fake snakes. "You forgot your harpoon," said John...
Business comes mainly from what the entrepreneurs call "proletarian" campuses, where students have few hard-to-fake seminars with their professors-the University of Massachusetts, Boston University and Northeastern. One customer is a father who is trying to assure academic success for his two children by contracting to have all their papers written by the pros...