“(Person imagines his future teaching philosophy at Hayward State until retirement and finds a message of nausea waiting in his belly; person during beatnik overture to the Age of Aquarius notices there’s more to life than he ever dreamed of, including under-the-table income; person takes an internship with Hal Lipset, pioneer of the sneaky mike hidden in a martini olive out there in the real world.) It was that time long, long ago when adult males sewed embroidered strips, or astrological symbo...ls, or peace signs on their shirts; young women ironed their hair straight and practiced inner voyages, sticking mandala decals on their hair irons; it was so long ago, in the misty reaches of the sixties, that chalk-faced street mimes were not yet obsolete—back, back we go. The days when I was the youngest person in the room were already gone and I pretended not to miss them. I was settling into bachelor middle age, except that I called it early middle age, hoping for a merry twinkle in my wise old eyes.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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