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Show THE THUNDERBIRD A SLICE OF LIFE SUSC MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1989 PAGE STEVE'S TEXACO CEDAR CITY 195 SOUTH MAIN COMMENTARY BY JAMES SPAINHOWER Don't let your car FREEZE UP Check your ANTIFREEZE for Sleep deprivation prompts reflection It was probably the combined effects of sleep deprivation, caffeine, and the stress of knowing that in 106 hours I was expected to deliver a manuscript-perfec- t essay on the Mimesis of Comic Relief During the Jacobean Period (with footnotes and annotated bibliography), into the critical hands of a certain English professor, that compelled me to rummage through my library in search of a little comic relief of my own. It was somewhere between The Dharma Bums , and Zen and the Art and dusty, it of Motorcycle Maintenance that I found it. Dog-eare- d harkened back to a time of neru jackets, sacreligious rites and Johnsons Great Society;" in retrospect, a comic-stri- p phase of Americas social evolution. The wayward book, Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me, relates amoral collegiate hipster, Gnossos the story of a shaggy-hairefor lust kicks is not to be outdone by his distaste Pappadopoulos, whos for convention. In short, this is a book about rebellion. What made revolt against the establishment so appealing among the young was the fact that there was a common uniform (love beads, sandals, long hair), a common language (groovy, far out, off the pigs) and a common goal (escape society). Most survivors have discarded the former two and now have several mortgages. I believe that even today, college students still search for an identity to call their own, and with varying degrees of militancy, fulfil this need through club membership. Perhaps it is human nature to be affiliated with people of similar tastes and temperament. We are, after all, a nation of joiners. Here on the SUSC campus weve clubs to satisfy the needs of most everyone . There are clubs for all purposes, interests, and ages. Clubs both practical and Pickwickian. Clubs which overcrowd the calendar with meetings for causes lost to the memories of elephants, but chief among which is loneliness. Admittedly, I need just as much as the next guy to experience the joys that come with club membership. I belong to the Literary Guild. What sets the Literary Guild apart from other campus clubs is that we do not meet except by chance. We pay no dues, nor do we have elected officials. Our paragon is literature itself. We discriminate only against those persons not having the insight to praise the virtues of the written medium; who havent lulled dreamily under the narcotic effects d of a paragraph. Upon such mortals we lavish our pity realizing that it is they who have been discriminating against themselves. Raising high the torch of scrutiny serves to illuminate the reason why the Literary Guild has but a handful of loyal backers. The culprit seems to be contemporary education. In this age of science and mass production, literature seems to have lost ground to the likes of Harold Robbins and Barbara Cartland. In an attempt to make education popular, thus practical, the classics have gone the way of the dodo bird, or worse yet, metamorphosed through the magic of T.V. into a caricature of the authors intent. Ask the Lions Club, ask the Chamber of Commerce. Better yet, ask the student or his parents. Its much too difficult dealing with the world today to worry about the musty ravings of a writer long dead. Call me a firebrand if you will. I suppose all members of the Literary Guild wear this appellation to some degree but we wear it as a badge of courage not an albatross around the neck. Of course, the unenlightened could raise the argument: has a tycoon ever been made of a dishwasher d in the works of Shakespeare, Shelley or Sandburg? Perhaps not. Nevertheless, a knowledge of literature cant hurt either. 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