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Readers who may have wondered ever since freshman English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...
Frenetic Feel. A dope fiend named Tip knocks over the dealer in the Mercedes. Dusty and Sweets get busted because of information provided by City Life. Larry dies of an overdose. The Solid Gold Weekend, three days of rock radio that has underscored the action, is nearly over...
Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am. But what you want is a fiend; you want a sadistic fiend because that is what you are. You only reflect on me what you are inside of yourselves, be cause I don't care anything about any of you. If I could, I would jerk this microphone off and beat your brains out with it, because that is what you deserve. You kill things better than you, and what can I say to you that you don't already know...
...Well, we start at the Coop again. The record department is on the second floor of the annex, and it is fairly complete, especially if you are a classical fiend. But if you like country blues, folk, or just rock, the Coop is a pretty good deal. The prices are low. If you are just looking for rock, then you should look at Cheap Thrills (1003 Mass Ave.). They have some hard-to-get rock records and they have listening booths where you can hear them before you buy, which is very nice...
...sweat shop." Just occasionally he is nudged by a fear of encroaching flab and a feeling that he is sliding too easily through life. Of them all, only Lewis Medlock seems outward-bound for the heart of darkness. At 38, he is an expert archer, spelunker, weight lifter and fiend for physical fitness; he is also an obsessive and philosophic seeker of challenges. He presses the others to join him on a three-day canoe trip down a north Georgia mountain gorge...