And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the "American Way of Life" is a fossil of history. What do they care... if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiffassed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frug, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragassing across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees ...in honey production--only to produce a race of bed-wetters!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the c...ontinent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and ...time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial hum...an traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »