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. . Any minute now fifty million adolescent gooks will hit the street with switch blades, bicycle chains and cobblestones..." —William S. Burroughs, "Last Words [of Hassan I Sabbah]" Nova Express Despite the blitzkrieg nature of their sound, Black Sabbath are moralists. Like Bob Dylan, like William Burroughs, like most artists trying to deal with a serious present situation in an honest way. They are not on the same level of alternative profundity, alternative perhaps; they are certainly much less articulate, subject to the ephemerality of alternative rock, but they are a band with a conscience who have looked around them and taken it upon themselves to reflect the chaos in a way that they see as positive. By now they’ve taken some tentative steps toward offering alternatives. In his book The Making of a Counter Culture, Theodore Roszak suggested that given the current paucity of social leaders worth investing even a passing hope in, the coalition made up of the young and the free-form wing of the Left should turn to the ancient notion of the shaman, the holy madman whose prescriptions derived not from logic or think-tanks or even words sometimes, but an extraordinarily acute perception of the flux of the universe.
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