No One Here Gets Out Alive
by Danny Sugerman, Jerry Hopkins
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Author: Danny Sugerman, Jerry HopkinsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-09-01
ISBN: 0446602280
Number of pages: 396
Publisher: Warner Books
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Book Review: The Eros of Dionysus Living
Summary: 5 Stars
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Hopkins and Sugerman's book, "No One Here Gets Out Alive" is a interesting, detailed and fascinating read. I've yet to compare it to Manzarek's and Denzmore's versions of Morrison's life, but I can say this book had me very absorbed with much thinking. I have seen the Val Kilmer movie prior and mentally attempted to piece the parts from the movie and to fill in the many other parts into the gaps. What I found of much more significance and pleasure in this book, was the ideas that Morrision thought, the books he read and the thinkers who influenced him. I found myself reading the quotes that were taken from him over and over again which very much help get the feel of where his mind was at. This book was highly interesting.
As I read this book I couldn't help to compare Morrison with the type of men Socrates was described to have taught in "The Republic of Plato." He just fit this very type of student so well that I found myself comparing him to what Socrates spoke and to that of an interpretive essay on this subject by Alan Bloom, a translator of Plato. And so I will just make a few comments on this book's description of Jim Morrison with the type of man Socrates sought after. This is not such a far fetched analysis, as Morrison himself was a reader of Nietzsche, and in agreement of such, an advent admirer of the chaotic, destructive, artistic and creative personality of the Greek god Dionysus.
Jim Morrison was a man of desires, someone who lived to fulfill them, to walk in them, breath them who would cross many boundaries others would not dare to. This is an intense kind of person. And you can see that in Jim's influence from the Jack Kerouac character of Dean Moriarty (Neil Cassidy), a total Dionysan, chaotic character of eros, a Dr. Faust in wild indulgent living.
The fight of the Apollonian nature, that of rationalism and duty, to that of the Dionysan nature of chaotic and erotic desires is from Greek tragedy and comes from eros, as the erotic man, and eros is a mad master. Eros will break the laws, cross all boundaries and make a man an enemy of other men. While politics always seem hostile to such, Morrison's early statement of describing himself and The Doors as "erotic politicians" makes sense in that it is the eros that leads a man to being either a tyrant or a philosopher, that is either a man of exploitation or a man of thinking. While these may seem entirely different, it is two sides of the same coin. One looks externally unsatisfied, while the other internally, who becomes satisfied.
The tyrant is willing to both think and do things that cross all boundaries, while the thinker will only be willing to think such things without horror, yet each one of these men are willing to see beyond the laws and conventions in their quest for nature.
"Eros is a demonic voice. The tyrant and the philosopher are united in their sense of their radical incompleteness and their longing for wholeness, in their passion and in their singlemindedness. They are the truly dedicated men." Allan Bloom, Interpretative Essay on The Republic of Plato, p. 424
This is the type of man that the Greek philosopher Socrates sought for, a man who lived by his desires. Both men fell into the Dionysan chaotic nature of passionate walk in indulgence and gratification, however the tyrant could never be fulfilled, while the philosopher can. The result was Socrates had successful students who sought philosophy and knowledge, as in Plato and Xenophon, to those who left to the path of the tyrants, such as Alcibiades and Critias.
You can see this pattern in Morrison's life, his knowledge and desire to excel in philosophical thinking, in poetry and social revolutionary thought as in Nietzsche,Rimaud and Norman O. Brown. You can see this in Morrison's interest in tragedy and existential relationships and his subsequent lifestyle (Weber) of heavy indulgence in drinking and wreckless living, his boredom in what others would consider such a great achievement and his search towards poetry and theater, unsatisfied with his accomplishments. Ultimately, it is the path of the tyrant that is self-destructive, the life of the fast lane of the speeding bullet of Dean Moriarty, of Faust, of 6 years from the beginning of The Doors to the death of Jim Morrison.
Summary of No One Here Gets Out Alive
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography is the work of two men whose empathy and experience with Jim Morrison uniquely prepared them to recount this modern tragedy: Jerry Hopkins, whose famous Presley biography, Elvis, was inspired by Morrison's suggestion, and Danny Sugerman, confidant of and aide to the Doors. With an afterword by Michael McClure.Instruments & Performers Books
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