Pendulum by Roy Williams

Author:Roy Williams [Michael R. Drew and Roy H. Williams]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593157159
Publisher: Vanguard Press

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John Steinbeck had hung on to the Upswing of a “We” until it reached its Zenith in 1943 and then rode the Downswing like a little boy sliding down the banister of a stairway. In 1966, three years after the tipping point into “Me,” Steinbeck wrote,

ME One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people. We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it. For the most part we are an intemperate people: We eat too much when we can, drink too much, indulge our senses too much. Even in our so-called virtues we are intemperate: a teetotaler is not content not to drink—he must stop all the drinking in the world; a vegetarian among us would outlaw the eating of meat. We work too hard, and many die under the strain; and then to make up for that we play with a violence as suicidal.5

By 1967, the fifth year of the six-year transitionary cycle into “Me,” the Beatles were no longer singing “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” but rather,

ME

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,

Boy, you been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus! goo goo g’joob.

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