Word: mindlessness
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Well, to make a long story short, I started to get sick. I couldn't eat, and I lost 30 pounds, and eventually I looked like what I was, which was sexless. I couldn't sleep either, and I'd obliterate those ungodliest of hours with mindless roaming around the city. I guess that I was unconsciously looking for rape. I wasn't even any good at that...
...virtually limitless--the other pre-meds who will deliberately tell you wrong information so you'll flunk an exam, the aesthetes who think talking politics is well, you know old boy, just a mite vulgar, the rock climbers and flower children who have experienced it all and the mindless future technocrats who actually care whether Scoop Jackson of Hubert Humphrey runs for president in '76. And this even without the war criminals and apologists--after all, Henry Kissinger was a Harvard...
...Morrison to synthesize his diverse influences into music unique both instrumentally and lyrically. There was also a time when he would open an album with a song that was AM dynamite, your "Moondances," "Dominos," "Wild Nights," and "Jackie Wilson Saids." No more. Goodbye as well to Tuppelo Honey's mindless bliss, and, pretty as it was, that may not be so bad. These are troubled times, y'know...
...your editorial in the May 30 issue concerning the conspicuous deficiencies in the CHUL's housing policies. I was equally struck by the remarkable similarity between the objections you raised -- among them the neglect of individual freedom and preference, the unpopularity of said policies among the persons affected, the mindless arbitrariness of the quota system, Aand the futility and general undesirability of the "ineffective social engineering" perpetrated by "bureaucratic manipulators" -- and the arguments advanced by those of us who are opposed to forced busing of students to achieve racial "balance" in primary and secondary public schools in the United States...
Obviously, Lovecraft here was exploring those tenebrific estuaries of the occult that had barely been mapped by Jung, Fraser and Arthur Machen. He even equipped the ancient demons with names - mindless Azagoth, Soggoth, Ib, Nyarlathotep and, above all, the great dread Cthulu who, in his sole appear ance, seems to be a "gelatinous green immensity" that slobbers. To recall these alien creatures from their hideous hiding places (the arctic wastes, unfathomable submarine chasms, New Eng land), the intrepid have but to practice rituals recorded in dusty, blasphemous old tomes like the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred...