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The Vitamin Has Been Reified. A Chemical Intangible Originally Defined As A Unit Of Nutritive Value, It Was Long Ago Reified Into A Pill. Now It Is A Pill; No One Except A Few Precise Scientists Define It As Anything Else. Once The Vitamin Became A Pill, It Became Real According To The Precepts Of American Cartesianism: I Swallow It, Therefore It Is.

Southerners Are So Devoted To Genealogy That We See A Family Tree Under Every Bush.

Self-help Books Are Making Life Downright Unsafe. Women Desperate To Catch A Man Practice All The Ploys Recommended By These Authors. Bump Into Him, Trip Over Him, Knock Him Down, Spill Something On Him, Scald Him, But Meet Him.

Any Hope That America Would Finally Grow Up Vanished With The Rise Of Fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, With Its Born-again Regression, Its Pink-and-gold Concept Of Heaven, Its Literal-mindedness, Its Rambunctious Good Cheer... Its Anti-intellectualism... Its Puerile Hymns... And Its Faith-healing... Are Made To Order For King Kid America.

Recently While Browsing In A Secondhand Bookstore I Bought A Paperback Copy Of The Intellectual And The City, But I Was Unable To Read It. When I Got Home I Discovered That The Original Owner Had Highlighted The Entire Book - Literally. Every Line On Every Page Had Been Drawn Through With A Bright Green Magic Marker. It Was A Terrifying Example Of A Mind That Had Lost All Power Of Discrimination.