An entry in this collection describes a "System" that "strangles talent" and "poisons the soul" and opens by describing a scene in which a mechanical monster abducts a child whose mother later muses "I just can‟t get that monster out of my mind."
An entry in this collection describes a "System" that "strangles talent" and "poisons the soul" and opens by describing a scene in which a mechanical monster abducts a child whose mother later muses "I just can‟t get that monster out of my mind." Another piece in this collection ends by dubbing the title man‟s life "a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness" after earlier describing that man fidgeting with a book of poems by Mao. Thiscollection, which is divided into sections titled "Lifestyles in the Golden Land," "Personals", and"Seven Places of the Mind," contains "Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)," and appears after the "Introduction" in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. A five-year old named Susan is fed acid and peyote by her mother in this collection‟s title essay, which describes the dissolution of San Francisco‟s Haight-Ashbury district. For 10 points, name this essay collection by Joan Didion that takes its title from Yeats‟ "The Second Coming."
An entry in this collection describes a "System" that "strangles talent" and "poisons the soul" and opens by describing a scene in which a mechanical monster abducts a child whose mother later muses "I just can‟t get that monster out of my mind."
Slouching Towards Bethlehem [accept  We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction before mention]