The Ancient Dream Of Man To Fly

The Aim Is Not To Give Human Beings Real Goals That Warrant Belief, And Tasks To Share In, But To Re-establish "belonging," Although This Kind Of Speech And Thought Is Precisely Calculated To Avoid Contact And So Makes Belonging Impossible.

To Consider Powerful Souls As If They Were A Useful Public Resource Is Quite Foreign To Our Customs. In A Small Sense It Is Undemocratic, For It Assumes That Some People Really Know Better In A Way That Must Seem Arbitrary To Most. In A Large Sense It Is Certainly Democratic, In That It Makes The Great Man Serve As A Man.

To Translate, One Must Have A Style Of His Own, For The Translation Will Have No Rhythm Or Nuance, Which Come From The Process Of Artistically Thinking Through And Molding The Sentences; They Cannot Be Reconstituted By Piecemeal Imitation. The Problem Of Translation Is To Retreat To A Simpler Tenor Of One’s Own Style And Creatively Adjust This To One’s Author.

The Family Is The American Fascism.

The Organization Of American Society Is An Interlocking System Of Semi-monopolies Notoriously Venal, An Electorate Notoriously Unenlightened, Misled By Mass Media Notoriously Phony.