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Besides, universal promiscuity hardly seems a perfect solution, for we would just be changing our rules and definitions for the act we now call prostitution. In fact, there is no perfect solution to the disparity between needs and satisfactions. Even under the best of circumstances, random sexual encounters will inevitably contain elements of squalor and violence. But it is reasonable to conclude that the sale of sex in America is not so much an immoral business as a sad and shabby one, and that legal permission plus a measure of supervision would be a genuine improvement...
...Going Nowhere is absurd, but Greenberg's good, tight fable is told with a warm, comic logic reminiscent of early Vonnegut. Arthur, a brilliant physics student, loses a leg in an unlikely series of events. Disconsolate, he becomes a hitchhiker. For ten years he lives on the random kindness of motorists, until his old mentor, Professor Melville, contacts him with an ambitious proposal. The prof wants to launch Arthur in a modest flying saucer and return him to earth as an interplanetary proselytizer for a new philosophy known as Unteleology. It disclaims any overriding purpose or plan...
...BOOK OF DANIEL by E.L Doctorow. 303 pages. Random House...
...fashioned T-shirt, hot-dog and straw-hat festival of ethnic pride. Manhattan's Columbus Circle was roofed with plastic streamers in red, white and green, the colors of the old country. The guy wires hummed in the breeze as an organ on the bandstand piped out random tunes for the early arrivals. Vendors set up rows of gaily colored booths to sell buttons (WE'RE NO. l), pennants (ITALIAN POWER!) and other paraphernalia of prideful protest. Now, in the already shimmering morning heat, the buses came rolling in from Corona in Queens, Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, Greenwich Village...
Mitchell made preflight arrangements with four people to beam them, telepathically, various symbols in random sequence. He attempted transmission during four rest periods on the flight, then had the results checked after his return...