The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo...neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the processes That first mentioned your name at some crowded cocktail... Party long ago, and someone (not the person addressed) Overheard it and carried that name around in his wallet For years as the wallet crumbled and bills slid in And out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much too say, in... fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it... Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one thing to do Is to do nothing. Wait.... ... You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »