Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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Registered by mbmeadow of Sacramento, California USA on 11/22/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by mbmeadow from Sacramento, California USA on Monday, November 22, 2004
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Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned to write the agony column, to answer the letters from Depserate, Sick of it all, Disillusioned. A joke at first; but then he was cuaght up, terrifyingly, in a vision of suffering, and he sought a way out, turning first here, then there -- Art, Sex, Religion. Shrike, the cynical editor, the friend and enemy, compulsively destoryed each of his friend's gestures toward idealism. Together, in the city's dim underworld, Shrike and Miss Lonelyhearts turn round and round in a loathsome dance, unresolvable, hating until death.

The Day of the Locust: To Hollywood comes Tod Hackett, hoping for a career in scene designing, but he finds the way hard and falls in with others -- extras, technicians, old vaudeville hands -- who are also in difficulty. Around him he sees the great mass of inland Americans who have retired to California in expectation of health and ease. But boredom consumes them, their own emptiness maddens them; they search out any abnormality in their lust for excitement -- drugs, perversion, crime. In the end, only blood will serve, unreased, undirected violence. The day of the locust is at hand.

Journal Entry 2 by mbmeadow at Post Office, "E" Street in Fresno, California USA on Saturday, May 21, 2005

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