VLVL2 (1) Ellison, "one, only one of each"

[pynchonoid]

"Here now is Crutchfield or Crouchfield, the
westwardman. Not 'archetypical' westwardman but _the
only_. Only one fight, one victory, one loss. And only
one president, and one assassin, and one election.
True. One of each of everything. You had thought of
solipsims and imagined the structure to be
populated--on your level--by only terribly, one. No
count on any other levels. But it proves to be not
quite that lonely. Sparse, yes, but a good deal better
than solitary. One of each of everything's not so bad.
Half an Ark's better than none." (GR 68-69)

Mike Weaver:
>The
> Glass Teat by Harlan 
> Ellison. It's the weekly TV columns he wrote for the
> LA Free Press from 
> October 1968 through  January 1970.[...] 
> For instance: I want to 
> talk for a few seconds about the war on dissent, as
> manifested on that big 
> momma mammary we call The Tube. (Marvel, gentle
> readers; at the cultural 
> shorthand: The Pill, The Man, The Tube. You can only
> use that kind of 
> shorthand when you've got one, only one of each, and
> everyone knows it. 
> Yeah: The Establishment.)




__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com