time he calls your number you lose.
The regulars can't bear this imper–
sonality: they sentimentalize their
relation to him, imagine reactions
pro or con, come on or cut out ac–
cordingly in periodic rises and falls.
The patron saint of the Bistro
is a youth, a pure character now
banned as giving the show away.
He is one who comes neither to
drink nor sport, but for the lay–
ing on of hands where it is
mo~t
required.
He
cadges those who
need to give into the soft act of
surrender, accepting eleemosynary
with
the
transcendent air of a
holy man. His iife is the
reducti:J
ad absurdum-or
sublime, if you
like-of the Bistro's spirit. Ap–
plying every drug known to a
drugged age, he has wrested his
rhythms from Nature, captured
his self. Jump with a
bC1!1!J',
jell
with a
saggy.
Ride the
horse,
stop
for a sip of
tea.
Total masturbation
-the triumph of modern art, a life
like a Mondrian or Malcvitch's
White on White,
capping Valery"s
Mist er H ead,
whieh is, after all.
but the artificial construction of
a;
metaphor-monger. This is a
Lazarus who comes back to tell
nothing, because there is nothing.
Born a
tabula rasa,
to that beati–
tude he returns. Earthquakes,
eclipses,
tid a I waves, wars,
droughts, orgies, upheavals, pla–
gues, he reduces to the propor–
tions of a pill. Pills are private
bombs.
It's closing time at last-last call
The DICTIONARY of
PHILOSOPHY
Edited by
DAGOBERT D. RUNES
with the collaboration of
70 eminent scholars.
"By
far the most authoritative
book of its
kind."-Prof. Karl
Jaspers.
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