This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, th...is is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of crea...tion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is a dirty book worth reading ... a bawdy which will be very useful to put Wyndham and J.J. into their proper cubby holes; ca...use Miller is sore and without kinks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing p...olitical mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's peeling now, age has got it, a kind of cancer of the background... and also in the assorted features. It's like a rotten flag or a vegetable from the refrigerator, pocked with mold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existence... of evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »