Second in what might or might not continue to be an annual series, in which we celebrate — via a rondel consisting of two quatrains (ABBA and CDCD) followed by a quintet (EFFEF) — thirteen of the HiLo Heroes about whom our contributors wrote during the preceding year.
B
enny Hill sent up English sexual anxiety with a smirk and a wink;
E
dmund Husserl troubled distinctions between appearance and reality;
H
arry Belafonte challenged both musical and social boundaries;
E
d “Big Daddy” Roth gave America its anti-Mickey: Rat Fink!
R
ené Daumal penned tart manifestos of absurdist negation;
M
aya Deren documented Haitian ritual dancers doing the freak ;
E
rich Fromm insisted that reason, not common sense, is our salvation;
N
eil Armstrong’s stoic silence has preserved the moon’s mystique.
A
da Lovelace’s algorithms were dangerous-er than Romantic fiction;
U
pton Sinclair spent his Jungle money on an Argonaut Folly;
T
odd Haynes’ protagonists attempt to resist ideology;
I
ceberg Slim possessed the pimp’s gift of malediction;
C
aptain Beefheart’s lyrics were more inspiring than any Zappa-svengali.
HiLobrow thanks Greg Rowland, Mark Kingwell, Brian Berger, Lynn Peril, Mimi Lipson, Annie Nocenti, Patrick Cates, Matthew Battles, Peggy Nelson, Joshua Glenn, Franklin Bruno, David Smay, and Luc Sante, who (respectively) wrote the thirteen HiLo Hero items to which the rondel links. And we’re every bit as grateful to our other HiLo Hero writers: Katie Hennessey, Joe Alterio, Douglas Wolk, Sarah Weinman, Ingrid Schorr, Tom Nealon, Erik Davis, Tor Aarestad, Jason Grote, Matthew De Abaitua, Alexis Madrigal, Alix Lambert, Jen Collins, and Tim Carmody.
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