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The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s—a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy—and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well. That he emerged to write this funny and true book and then moved on to find the meaningful life that for a while had seemed beyond reach is what ultimately happens in The Eden Express. But the real story here is that throughout his harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share.
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Jeffery Dyer
reviewed The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity on January 19, 2021
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
There's no recipe for a happy life. It's just that in our one-inch-above-the-ground floating world - punchdrunk on whatever ego-trip we happen to find ourselves in - we think there is.
It's a kind of Eden express.
And if we get really obstinate about how bulletproof our euphoria has now suddenly made us, we're on Mark Vonnegut's type of Eden express, mental illness. I caught that train too.
Where did we go wrong?
It's like this:
Brute reality is unsustainable for long periods of time.
Nevertheless (and guess what?) our culture tells us the instant nirvana of whatever game or product we've bought into is ALWAYS readily available for our instant gratification. We'll be anesthetized Instantly.
We CAN, in an ideal world so the ads say, be high 24/7!
OK - am I alone in wanting to be pleasantly anesthetized by whatever video channel I'm watching for an indefinite stretch of time?
Am I alone in finding myself, whenever it's time for lights out, clutching my remote tightly just so I can watch just another minute of brainless pablum?
"Humankind cannot bear much reality."
Now, go back to that brute naked reality I mentioned - the opposite of video la-la land...
What if you were Led (let's say, by a Nietzschean disregard for basic self-care) to endure that Gorgon's head of brute reality for far too long?
Mark did that, and so did I.
Well, in this book we're told that suddenly - I'm not kidding - this nirvana of self-projected instant gratification will now be nonstop. It's now the runaway Eden express.
You know the one with a loose caboose?
So mental illness is one way of hitting rock bottom. So's addiction or any of a host of crutches when the fit hits the shan.
But we CAN wake up, as Mark's famous father Kurt made HIM wake up - and a program like the twelve steps can make the addict, just as a strict regimen can make a recovered former zombie like me and Mark, wake up one bright blue morning with a realization.
That realization may be like the one that hit me today:
"Look at THIS!
"I'm now IN CHARGE of my life.
"AND... I'm really LIVING it for a change."
So go ahead - turn OFF that crazy gizmo you're watching...
And Wake Up to Your Life.
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