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4. The day inside. The dreams of the idle, the boredom of nothingness brings separation. The lovers part, the separation is complete, inevitable.

5. The night. Restlessness the need to search in forbidden places but always coming back to the self alone. The futility of escape.

6. The new pad. The lover separated dominated by popular images (unable to escape from the middle class) the interplay of the sexes - boredom, emptiness

7. The codification. The power of youth, the proclamation of a new way, but it is only the old way made to look new. The power of rebirth, the breaking

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down of the self if only for a few hours to become part of a crowd, a community. A feeling of spring and new trust in love however false.

The book is weak in the nightmare area, section number 5, the drug scene, the sexual escape, the freakout scene, the despair. It is under stressed but I don't have the pictures to do it properly - it is only hinting at, but with the people I traveled with I was never around when it happened if it did, and so much of the drug thing in interior with very little exterior effects anyway. It is a mind thing and hard to show visually (at least the physicadelic [sic] drugs). I think with hard drugs it is easier to show.

But perhaps the dramatic structure