REFLECTION ON THOMAS WOLFE.....AS THE STEEL BALL, TOPSY-TURVY FROM THE METAPHORICAL RUBBER FLIPPERS OF THE PIN BALL BRAIN, ACTIVATES SOME OTHERWISE INACTIVE CEREBRAL DEVICES........
95 years after 1930 changed the random associations of drunken flappers to the structural shoulders of another World conflict and the subsequent drug-showering of American Youth's brain synapses, Tom Wolfe exited with little applause...his fashionability having lost its runway footing as pants legs again narrowed, revealing some big feet, now on the ground.......Tom showed us that Durer, on acid, was Picasso, after all......The Merry Pranksters were On The Road , but Wolfe was not on the bus....he was writing the Story of the Bus Trip, and taking us into a brief orbit, before crashing into the Big Sea; or, have i just butted up the circuituous memory trail from those brain connections to stored Hamilton Morris' PHARMACOPEIA .....to 20th C. novels about drug intoxication and hallucinatory experiations....(yet, still, i know that 'experiation' is a neologistic word....but were not just about every word, at some times in History....just developments from primitive Man...