Ken Kesey

Tom Parker

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

The suicide left its own mark on Kesey, who had witnessed a man willing to make the greatest sacrifice in honor of a way of life, a way of life that no developer could buy from him. In a perverse way, the Indian embodied Thoreau's vigw that "in wildness is the preservation of the world." The dam represents machinery that destroys one way of life in service to another. 

He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap

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