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Very bad night. There is a lot of it going around. Thought I was going to snap out of it this month, but "snap" seems now a little hasty. ( Read more... )

Goodman was a loss to us, but he left his poems and novels and social criticism (Growing Up Absurd has never been answered). With great intellectual honesty he honored what he called "the drawn-out losing battle" which is life that ends, sooner or later, as death follows birth in inevitable sequence. This book follows the adventures of a young hero named Horatio Alger as he grows up in the Empire City. It is somewhat fantastic. It is something like Mervyn Peake, if he had been a New Yorker trained in philosophy, instead of a Brit trained in painting.