more 'whole sick crew'

[Samuel Moyer]

This is an interesting point... I thought the name strange when I first read
it and soon let it go.  It certainly does not seem to mean "the entire sick
crew," and may just refer to well-being.  In which case there certainly is
an oxymoron which strikes me as being very funny when I think about it and
ironic when I think about some of the members of the crew.  Other thoughts?

sam


> Has anyone besides me been laboring under the misapprehension that the
> 'whole' in the phrase refers to entire? As in, the whole shmir, or whole
> hog, or whole lot of ?  Suddenly the word seems to make more sense as
> the wholeness of health and well-being. In other words the 'whole sick
> crew' might be thought of as an outright contradiction or oxymoron.
> Except of course it's a contraction that a few writers of the last
> couple centuries have insisted must be factored into our social
> existence. One such writer much in the news at the time V. was being
> written. would have been R. D. Laing. Laing was dealing with insanity
> not soical alienation as such. But there was much crossover in his
> thinking. Never quite said insanity is health. Wish I could find my copy
> of The Divided Self so I could quote something. Anyway I feel I must
> personally go through some minor reevalutation of my V.
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