By Joan Didion
First released in 1979, The White Album documents indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the Nineteen Sixties. interpreting key occasions, figures, and tendencies of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the procuring mall—through the lens of her personal religious confusion, Joan Didion helped to outline mass tradition as we now realize it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a principal textual content of yank reportage and a vintage of yankee autobiography.
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Bullshit bullshit Can’t stand the game White man’s playing. One way out, one way out. BOOM BOOM. BOOM BOOM. ” “Eldridge doesn’t mind if I go up,” one of the latter said to one of the lawyers. “If Eldridge doesn’t mind, it’s all right with me,” the lawyer said. ” “I can’t take you up then. Eldridge has got dubious credentials. One’s bad enough. ” The lawyer turned to a cameraman. ” On that particular day I was allowed to go up, and a Los Angeles Times man, and a radio newscaster. We all signed the police register and sat around a scarred pine table and waited for Huey Newton.
This particular juxtaposition of the spoken and the unspeakable was eerie and unsettling, and made my notebook a litany of little ironies so obvious as to be of interest only to dedicated absurdists. An example: Linda dreamed of opening a combination restaurant-boutique and pet shop. 12 Certain organic disorders of the central nervous system are characterized by periodic remissions, the apparent complete recovery of the afflicted nerves. What happens appears to be this: as the lining of a nerve becomes inflamed and hardens into scar tissue, thereby blocking the passage of neural impulses, the nervous system gradually changes its circuitry, finds other, unaffected nerves to carry the same messages.
Yeah,” Manzarek said. ” My leg had gone to sleep, but I did not stand up; unspecific tensions seemed to be rendering everyone in the room catatonic. The producer played back the rhythm track. The engineer said that he wanted to do his deep-breathing exercises. Manzarek ate a hard-boiled egg. “Tennyson made a mantra out of his own name,” he said to the engineer. “I don’t know if he said ‘Tennyson Tennyson Tennyson’ or ‘Alfred Alfred Alfred’ or ‘Alfred Lord Tennyson,’ but anyway, he did it. Maybe he just said ‘Lord Lord Lord.
