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MANIACS

                                               June  19, 1992
                                         Rev: January 9, 2010

Once upon a time, there
was a radio station.                (And still is, though
A most peculiar radio               it's peculiar in
station in New York,                different ways.)
called WBAI, 99.5 FM,
"listener sponsored                      WBAI
radio" (as opposed to
"commercial", *and*
as opposed to
"government-funded").

There was a man who made tapes
in his kitchen, and sent them into         And his name
this radio station, and somehow they       was Lou Gallo.
made their way to the air, and
eventually he followed them.                  His show was "A Guru Aghast
                                              in Gehenna" in the 1972-1973
He called himself "Guru Lew Fonghoo",         time frame, and the relgion he
and he had a theory of human nature:          founded he called "the 85 steps
All of us contain Four Maniacs:               of Fonghooism".

   The Big Baby  ("Nunzio Nusuno")
   The Big Daddy ("Dominic Darrio")
   The Big Mommy (I forget)
                                                 Jungified Freud...
and... the fourth:

    Morton Rigor                                           (Fried Young?)

Standing outside of
of the human psyche
the other three,                             FONGHOOISM
perpetually analytical.

   The rational impulse.
   The death impulse.

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