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MANIACS

               
                                               6/19/92 
Once upon a time, there 
was a radio station.               (and still is, I hope...
A most peculiar radio               even if it isn't quite so
station in New York,                peculiar.)
called WBAI, 99.5 FM, 
"listener sponsored 
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
this radio station, and somehow they
made their way to the air, and 
eventually he followed them.   
       
He called himself "Guru Lou Fongoo",   
and he had a theory of human nature:   
All of us contain Four Maniacs:                  
                                                 
   The Big Baby ("Nunzio Nusuno")                                              
   The Big Daddy ("Dominic Darrio")              Jungified Freud?             
   The Big Mommy (I forget)                                      (Freud Jung  
                                                                  Fried Young?
and... the fourth:                                                Why do I    
                                                                  think of    
    Morton Rigor                                                  things like 
                                                                  this?)      
Standing outside of                                                           
the other three,          
perpetually analytical.                       
                                              
   The rational impulse.                      
   The death impulse.                         
                        
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