tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722175978351080702024-03-19T15:39:30.631-07:00Bad EminenceAn Outsider's thoughts on Writing, Books, Music, Culture and PoliticsJohn Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-2493431974446564752020-11-05T16:41:00.003-08:002020-11-11T06:24:30.291-08:00Trump Memorandum to the United States Supreme Court<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Subject: Counting Votes Against Me is a Total and Complete Fraud</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: November 6, 2020</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">RE: Donald J Trump and Michael Pence VS Counting Votes In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia (but not in Nevada and Arizona, please)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To My Supreme Court:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As you know, it's easy to win (we're always winning, winning, winning), but it's very hard for me to lose; so all Democrat votes that might make me lose, after I was already ahead by such a great number of votes, should be thrown out and are the greatest fraud ever against the American people. Plus, I told everyone we already won and Melania has ordered her inaugural ball gown (you should see it), and the invitations have gone to the printers so the counting has to STOP! They should never have been counted after I was in the lead. I was like way ahead, but can you believe it, they didn't stop counting? What happened? All these votes magically appeared at 5am. They found all these votes. Wisconsin....I don't know. Nobody knows where they came from. It's like the testing. I told them, I said, stop testing and the China Virus will go away, it will just disappear. I looked at the numbers in Pennsylvania and I said, Wow, Wow that's a lot, because when you add in North Carolina which--and there's a lot of life in Georgia and people who love their president. So you know we have to stop it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Free and fair elections, they say. It's so unfair to me. Because there's counting. They're basically unfair, like the Russia witch hunt and the fake nyews. And the counting. So much counting. They go on and on and on. The Biden fraud, this is them: They count everything. They got toilet paper stuck to their shoe, that's a ballot. Hey, there's something on that one. That's for Biden. Count it. It's true. Totally happened in Philadelphia. Truckloads of Democrat toilet paper ballots. There's no way I didn't win. So this is what you do. You go One Two Three Four-- and you know what comes next (even my people know what comes next. I love my people) So you don't have to keep counting. It's enough counting. So you stop it. And we won as far as I'm concerned. Did you know we won Texas and O-Hi-O by 8.1 points. Great victories and everybody said, they have to call it for you, Mr. President; you won everybody said; but what happened to the election? They stopped the election and kept counting--finding Democrat votes. That's what somebody said. They can't catch up; how can they catch up? Impossible, so stop the counting. I said, my judges will stop the counting.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They knew they couldn't win so they said, "Let's go to court", I predicted it, so I am taking them to your very amazing supreme courtroom to throw out all the illegal fraudulent Biden votes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S. Remember that I appointed three of you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">P.P.S. to Amy (this is another perfect memo; hint hint)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sincerely,</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr5pMvY4o7COX56x_yCIUdvLwfj-3Q7O9JPLaF2OfXKxW28QVjbZfT4czKw-hKVlMJGMw6Mir7h7n93TCZreU_ZnqDrYn-CLeISMiwIJ1LPQ3i3iBl9irdcpTVPHznjVrTPgpe2PXsOdg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="174" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr5pMvY4o7COX56x_yCIUdvLwfj-3Q7O9JPLaF2OfXKxW28QVjbZfT4czKw-hKVlMJGMw6Mir7h7n93TCZreU_ZnqDrYn-CLeISMiwIJ1LPQ3i3iBl9irdcpTVPHznjVrTPgpe2PXsOdg/" width="288" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-38476551036440392732020-04-10T13:09:00.001-07:002021-02-03T06:39:08.630-08:00The Man from Ambivalence (paid for by the Skip Flincher for President campaign)<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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(Tense gloomy music plays) Born to an existential philosopher and circus palm reader in a little town called Ambivalence, Texas, Skip Flincher learned early on that nothing in this world is certain. Though his mother left town with a trapeze star and his father jumped to his death from the Ambivalence Bridge shortly thereafter, Skip would overcome childhood tragedy and turn his uncertain world into a political world view that would one day almost transform his community and the entire state of Texas. Whether it was proposing tough gun regulations in the state house and then casting the deciding vote against them, or running on a progressive platform only to disavow it the day before an election, Skip Flincher has lived his life on the principle of what he calls his 'Then again, maybe I won't' vision for America. (Music becomes more ambiguously hopeful) Now, he wants to do for America what he almost did for Texas: Maybecare for all, quasi criminal justice reform, creating a choose-your-own-ending immigration policy, a greenish new deal, a semi-living wage, supporting a woman's right to agonize about choosing, getting dark money out of politics to a certain extent, moderately rebuilding infrastructure, and supreme court coin flips on close and controversial decisions. The man from a little town called Ambivalence doesn't want to solve our most difficult problems, he wants to revel in the impossibility of solving them, and he thinks (but he's not sure) the world may be a better place without solutions.</div>
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While some politicians continue to make promises they can't keep, and others have visions for a better America that will never be, Skip Flincher is the man who believes he isn't so sure America wants a better future. (Inspirational coda plays) Cut to Skip at a lectern speaking at a rally: "For it is the daily uncertainty and terror of the unknown that is the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship, the next big cure, the next big cure for cancer that fails but turns out to cure male pattern baldness instead, yes, this could be the time we might make the world and our over-rated country a less terrible place to live"</div>
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Get ready for Political Action! Chase the old Jewish Socialist Democrat all over the Electoral Map and see if you can earn your Moderate Bona Fides while attempting to bring Crazy Bernie down. Earn points for learning the liberal media talking points in Pundit Land "How is he going to pay for that", "Trump is licking his chops", "Medicare for All will never pass." "He'll kill the down ballot", "He's a Castro fan boy", "He's unelectable", then take your bonus pundit points buy the weapon of your choice (but only the one you can afford)--Pete's Pea Shooter, Klobuchar's Klub, Warren's Woman Wand, Joe's Javelin, Blumberg's Bazooka, Steyer's Stun Gun, Moderator's Machete, or Media Mega Mace--and take aim during Democratic Demolition Debate night. Blood, Bleating and Blather rules as the also rans take turns bludgeoning the front runner. Guaranteed to make Crazy Bernie unelectable and unrecognizable. Then go participate in your state's Carcass Caucus or vote in a primary. Just think of any mainstream position--I love Israel, rejoin the Paris Accord, we'll never be a socialist country, let's just fix Obamacare, anything including the words bi-partisan support, I want to keep my junk insurance, I believe in markets--and presto the magic ballot will choose the safest candidate. Finally, you'll wake up as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, where Bernie will be drawn, quartered and immolated by Tom Perez and the DNC with state of the art HD graphics. On the final night, use your remaining points to create a CGI dream candidate of incremental change (well, the one you can afford). Combine your favorite celeb with your candidate of choice and come up with a President-to-be only an American Idol could love. Can your CGI candidate win in November? </div>
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A rule setting maximum drug prices and penalties for entities in the 340B drug pricing program. Section 340B of the <a href="http://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/PHSA_CMD.pdf" target="_blank">Public Health Services Act</a> allows certain covered entities to purchase pharmaceutical drugs at discounted prices to reach certain eligible patients. When a drug manufacturer enters a 340B pricing agreement with HHS, it agrees to keep the price of drugs below certain ceiling prices, or else pay a penalty. This <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/05/2016-31935/340b-drug-pricing-program-ceiling-price-and-manufacturer-civil-monetary-penalties-regulation" target="_blank">rule</a> establishes the 340B ceiling prices and the penalties drug manufacturers would pay for exceeding them. <br />
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The rule was set to go into effect on March 6, 2017, but on January 20, 2017, the president issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/20/memorandum-heads-executive-departments-and-agencies" target="_blank">regulatory freeze</a>, <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/03/06/2017-04337/340b-drug-pricing-program-ceiling-price-and-manufacturer-civil-monetary-penalties-delay-of-effective" target="_blank">delaying</a> the effective date to March 21, 2017. On May 19, 2017, the rule was <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/19/2017-10149/340b-drug-pricing-program-ceiling-price-and-manufacturer-civil-monetary-penalties-regulation" target="_blank">delayed</a> until October 1, 2017, and on September 29, 2017, it was <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/29/2017-20911/340b-drug-pricing-program-ceiling-price-and-manufacturer-civil-monetary-penalties-regulation" target="_blank">delayed</a> again until July 1, 2018. On May 7, 2018, HHS <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/07/2018-09711/340b-drug-pricing-program-ceiling-price-and-manufacturer-civil-monetary-penalties-regulation" target="_blank">proposed</a> to further <em class="status">delay the rule to July 1, 2019, which was <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/06/05/2018-12103/340b-drug-pricing-program-ceiling-price-and-manufacturer-civil-monetary-penalties-regulation" target="_blank">finalized</a> on June 5, 2018.</em></div>
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On May 23, 2018, HUD issued a series of three <i>Federal Register</i> notices. <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/23/2018-11146/affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-withdrawal-of-the-assessment-tool-for-local-governments" target="_blank">First</a>, HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_18_044" target="_blank">announced</a> it would be withdrawing the Local Government Assessment Tool, which was designed to help local governments to complete their AFHs. <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/23/2018-11145/affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-affh-responsibility-to-conduct-analysis-of-impediments" target="_blank">Second</a>, HUD reminded local governments of their obligations to conduct "analyses of impediments" to fair housing choice, which were required before the AFFH Rule went into effect, but which were generally not submitted or reviewed by HUD. <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/23/2018-11143/affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-withdrawal-of-notice-extending-the-deadline-for-submission-of" target="_blank">Third</a>, HUD withdrew the January 5, 2018 <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/05/2018-00106/affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-extension-of-deadline-for-submission-of-assessment-of-fair" target="_blank">notice</a>. <em class="status">Taken together, these notices effectively nullify the AFFH Rule: With no assessment tool, there can be no AFH, and by extension the rule cannot be implemented.</em> On June 5, 2018, several states and cities filed an <a href="http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/news%20documents/NFLA_Amicus_Brief.pdf" target="_blank">amicus brief</a> opposing HUD's decision to withdraw the assessment tool, and New York State <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/fair_housing.pdf" target="_blank">moved to intervene</a> in support of the National Fair Housing Alliance's lawsuit.</div>
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<strong>What does it mean, Uncle Ben? Well, the actions taken by HUD Secretary Carson nullify the AFFH rule. So patterns of segregation and discrimination cannot be identified or addressed. The unmet mandate of the 1968 Fair Housing Act will remain unmet and patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in housing can go on as it had since Jim Crow. It fits in with the President's past pattern of housing discrimination in New York during the 1970's when he and daddy dearest were landlords. Now he has Uncle Ben doing his dirty work for him.</strong></div>
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Citing Supreme Court precedent, the new regulations narrow the definition of sexual harassment in light of clarity, defining it as "unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the school's education program or activity." Obama-era guidelines define it as "unwelcome conduct of sexual nature." The new regulations also narrow the circumstances when schools are obligated to respond to an incident to when the school has "actual knowledge" of sexual harassment. This "actual knowledge" clause requires the accuser to officially report to an individual who has authority to institute corrective measures. Additionally, the incident must have taken place within the school's 'own programs or activities.' <br />
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Finally, regarding the investigation of incidents, the regulations lays out certain due process protections. Investigations would be based on a presumption of innocence for the accused, and schools would be allowed to choose the evidentiary standard between a "preponderance of evidence" or "clear and convincing evidence" in holding accused students responsible. Institutions of higher education will be expected to conduct live hearings, and cross-examination would be allowed by advisers and attorneys. 'Rape shield protections' would be extended to victims, preventing the examiners from inquiring about the victims' sexual history. Final determinations would have to be made by third-party individuals not conducting the investigation <br />
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The notice and comment period for this rule was open until 28 January, 2019. The DoEd then <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/01/28/2019-00256/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal" target="_blank">extended the comment period</a> until January 30. <em class="new">It then <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/02/14/2019-02566/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal" target="_blank">reopened</a> the comment period for one day on February 15 due to technical issues on the Federal eRulemaking Portal. </em></div>
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<strong>While sexual harassment can run both ways, #MeToo has shown us how overwhelmingly men are in positions of authority and thus perpetrate the vast majority of sexual harassment cases. So it's an interesting pattern to see a woman making the reporting and criteria for sexual harassment more difficult on college campuses and a black man making it easier for racial segregation and discrimination in housing to continue. Historically these people are called collaborators.</strong></div>
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<strong>The new rules proposed by DeVos are somewhat nuanced and require some examination to understand their potential effect. On the one hand, the bar for what constitutes sexual harassment has been raised significantly and the definition of sexual harassment hangs on an interpretation of what "effectively denies a person equal access to the school's education program or activity". It also makes it easier for schools to avoid responsibility for their lack of response to a sexual harassment claim, as in the case where a victim did not report it to the appropriate person: an official report to someone with the authority to institute corrective measures. You wonder if this new guidance is adopted how well advertised it will be regarding the official making of a complaint. Given how under-reported sexual harassment is historically, it is easily forseeable that the DeVos language will put a chill on the reporting of harassment and will allow more of the less severe, but still troubling, forms of harassment to fly under the radar. Also, schools would be given the choice of evidentiary standard between "preponderance of evidence" or "clear and convincing evidence" in holding accused students responbsible.</strong></div>
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<strong>On the other hand, the due process and presumed innocence of the accused harasser is one of the positives. Another is that rape shield protections would be in place for victims, preventing inquiries into the victim's sexual history.</strong></div>
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<strong>Overall, these changes represent a mixed bag. There are loopholes for Universities to wiggle out of their responsibility and liability, and only time will tell whether the effect of these changes, should they be adopted, will discourage reporting of harassment, especially when the evidentiary standard is chosen by the university (one assumes based on the nature of the accusations) and only the most severe and pervasive examples of harassment meet the standard. </strong></div>
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<strong><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation-in-the-trump-era/">https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation-in-the-trump-era/</a></strong></div>
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<strong>Follow the link from the Brookings Institute to follow all of the Trump era deregulatory efforts.</strong></div>
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John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-56023719702210507092019-12-13T08:06:00.003-08:002019-12-13T08:06:52.450-08:00MAN OF SORROWS
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He is inside of her, half-immersed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pushes deeper and imagines he has filled
the darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He starts a rhythm; she
syncopates it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A feather sting gathers
out of nowhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wind kicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fluid pulses; ebbs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Touch returns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
breast in his palm; the shed skin of top sheet around his ankles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rests his weight on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The oscillating hum of a fan fills the space
overhead where he has been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She winds a
leg around the harrow of his hip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dark
smells drift out of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">II</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He awakens, finished with the idea of sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulls the bedroom curtain back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The air in the loft is close, closer than
gold street light flooding smoked glass windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Outside on the fire escape, ranks of new air stir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iron slats groove his feet with the pain of
gravity and a breeze cools his sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two beams of light from the Insurance Tower bridge the darkness over the
skyline, while red lights blink on a hospital roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am a man of
sorrows</i>, he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not sound
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hand touches his shoulder and
Mara says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">come inside, Dane, you’re
naked.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane slips out the next night, wearing only blue jeans—no
shoes to sound the hall, bare-chested to feel the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He walks the stairwell, where shuffles
amplify and doors boom, touching the rail on his descent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parti-colored outline of a naked body
soars, arms outstretched, up the wall between each landing, like a logo for the
spirit of flight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the street, a pattern of gold lights veers north, and
in the downtown neon hums under clean post-moderns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane steps onto the avenue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dark shining car slices the corner and
roars past him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is not hit, but the
near miss jolts his chest like a rupture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is spared by a clock’s tick, chance, helpless and ashamed as a lone
man risen from the dead in a cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A dog barks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Somewhere between brick rows a bass beat drums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He faces tenements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Street talk jabbers like a foreign language
in his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I must pass here once, or I will never be free of the shining car, my
good fortune and shame.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">IV</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The project is dark except for two second-floor
windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A woman sags in the frame of
one, silhouetted, breasts hung low, resenting the light that exposes her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She
watches me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The glow of white skin in
the darkness. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane does not see the men there addicted to the stoop
until he is beside them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One man leans,
a hand visiting his genitals like a night watch, the other hunches, speaking
words beyond his understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
stare through him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Look at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will walk under your shadow, only do not
touch me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>They let him pass
unharmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane is at the gate when a dog rambles out of the shadow
of the factory, snarl ragged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells
himself this must come to pass, yet he runs, bare feet slapping blacktop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A stone pierces his heel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulls up halt, hears the animal gain by
huff and stride, and he leaps for the hood of a delivery truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pit Bull splatters steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane clambers to the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He pries the stone out, rocks with the pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For the
first time I am in danger; I have always been in danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>He shucks off his jeans and dangles pant
legs at snapping jaws. Teeth clamp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
pulls and the dog lifts; he rocks and the dog caroms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arc swings wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He lets go and the dog sails away with blue
jeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane leaps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pain rifles through marrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hobbles to the factory door and closes out
a growl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane stands pressed to the door, chest heaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have
escaped with the ease of a lie, a bruise on my heel.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">VI</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Night comes again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He walks an angry neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Curses muffle behind yellow windows like a cough behind a fist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Streetlights flutter blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A wad of spit slaps the pavement near his
feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man may dress against insults, but he is
naked against violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane stops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You
spit at me, </i>he says to the spitter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No, </i>says the man, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you’s walkin’ where I spit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Another
man, built like smooth hard rubble, stands beside him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is no way to prophesy pain, except for the
readiness of fists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He dreads rough
hands, but he craves their justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane
spits back at the spitter’s shoe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
one built like rubble jacks him up by the arm pits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It starts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He shuts his eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is intent
on the pain, not on his attackers, not on escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blows shock him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He feels their rhythm and a counter-rhythm of
nausea, weightlessness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His head snaps
back; lightning shines behind his eyelids and his jaw explodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something hard and ragged rolls like a pebble
over his tongue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tastes blood,
heaves, vomits on the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They drop
him and he folds into his own sour bile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The shadows of men retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curses fade like promises of love after
passion, and he imagines he has borne the last beating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am a
man of sorrows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing to fear
in this place; nothing worse.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An hour has passed since Mara reached and the bed
stretched out like silence, since she searched for Dane on the fire
escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She feels the capacity of high
ceilings to reverberate her fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
reasons it out again:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he couldn’t sleep;
he needed something at an all-night store and didn’t want to wake me; he’ll be
back any moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It comes eventually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All this time I have been
fortunate, deceived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>She rocks
through the silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She calls
hospitals, police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane is nowhere.
Thinking with his mind she follows him down the avenue, but cannot find an easy
complication to delay him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mara startles at the sound of scraping from the
hallway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dane?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She flings the door
wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bloody man drags himself along
the concrete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knows his form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is too much blood and swelling to recognize
his face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She dabs his puffy eyelids, begs him not to go walking in
the night again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He nods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am a
man of sorrows.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane pushes in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her anus fits like gloves a size too small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow he is erect in her, this garish woman.
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">What makes me immune to her
seduction? </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">he wondered, when he passed her on the
street.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By what right do I refuse her commerce?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Venetian blinds shadows slash on street lit walls, slant
and twist around the room as cars pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Humid sheets and perfume cloys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maisy too flashy for your baby blues?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>She smiles, gray teeth straining sour
breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Come on now; you ain’t got to love me; just lay me and pay me. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She undresses and offers her deep brown
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bet a good boy like you never done this before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>He has not done this before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane rises high above her, his own body, as he comes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You been to Maisy’s
black hole, now she’s gonna take you somewhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>From a cheap, sparkling purse she
withdraws a syringe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not that, </i>he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My
magic rocks, </i>her eyes go crazy-large. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don’t
worry, Baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>She heats up the
rocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His arm is knotted off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He makes a fist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needle moles under skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just a
little for you, Dane Baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’ll get
you off the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>She shoots full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But why you got to
do this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Maisy asks him while they’re
floating high on light beam traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To drain the cup, </i>he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dane
Baby, you’re in my heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A motel room,
magic rocks and a gentle man like you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sufferin’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s daylight,
somewhere in your heaven. You understand how that works, sweet man?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>She laughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What
cup I got to drain to get me there?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">IX</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mara rages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something like a growl accompanies her blows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does not resist her welcome, not even the
damaging knee that brings him down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is morning and Dane is wasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mop
handle strikes his ribs and vertebrae.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He looks up and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my father
never beat me,</i> with wonder in his voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mara quits, drops the handle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Short of killing him, she cannot stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why? </i>she
asks, her whole face trembling at the word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">X</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is not enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He rumbles down the stairwell another night, past the colorful flying
logo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows that fear is human; it is
nothing without a man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you
prepare to face a nothing, until it stands before you, named?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I won’t
wait for you, </i>he shouts into factory night, like a child who is always ‘it’
counting 48, 49, 100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Here I come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i>Yet, he cannot imagine what is waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am
lulled by peace and safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clean lies.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He chooses no neighborhood, but three men smoking in the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They watch him approach, white as
dreams, barefoot, slim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I know I am a
stranger, </i>he says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but if you will
make me your enemy—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They cock their heads; the man in the middle laughs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please,
if you have it in you, do the worst to me; the worst you can imagine.</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That’s messed up, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">the
middle man laughs like a loaded spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shut up, J, </i>the first man says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He throws his cigarette down and licks his
lower lip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You want us to hurt you?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dane nods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So what do we do?</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I can’t say, but there is no
limit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t even tell you if I should
live.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">J spooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Count
me out of this, </i>he says, hands up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The third man watches, slit-eyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Here? </i>the first man asks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No, someplace safe.</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Safe, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">the
third man echoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Three days, </i>Dane
says<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The first man
exhales deeply and licks his lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">XI</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mara hopes, not for Dane’s return, only for what the
night and the city give back to her, something on this morning of the third
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She leaves the door unlocked for
him and goes to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time she
cannot answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She is awake when he comes in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A syncopated, slow limp homeward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then no sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She goes out, numb and dutiful, finds him
clinging to the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does not look
at her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His torso is dark with grime and bruises and
dried blood smeared like primer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
back is striped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shakes from the
effort of standing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the bathroom, she fills the tub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She takes his arm and sound drones out of his
open mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smells of urine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His hair is greasy, tarnished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She cuts his jeans away with scissors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His legs and buttocks are pocked with burn
scars; his genitalia razor slit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
stands him in the tub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His eyes bulge
and his upper body muscles twitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
lean as a starved dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sponges him
quickly to keep the healing scars from softening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His face lights with pain as she sweeps his
crack, and out of his mouth come words that sound to her like, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we are healed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">XII</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He walks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under a
gold light pattern on the avenue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Void
of days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfathomed night passing over
him again with elements and viral strains, or the next slaughter involving
guns, plutonium and reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The human logo, arms outstretched over night, soars
across a billboard, flight willed from the beginning to the walls of caves,
stairwells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to human hands and
feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am a man of sorrows, </i>Dane repeats the ancient prophecy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What
must I do to be saved?</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The
End</span></div>
John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-24958547603176079042019-12-13T08:05:00.001-08:002019-12-13T08:05:13.508-08:00The Medium (fiction)<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W</b>hen
I see the sign in Clintonville--Sonora: Medium and Spiritual Advisor--swinging
from a white hangman's post between Duda’s Street Rods and Muscle Cars and The
Chicken Shack, I stop and turn the car around to read the rest of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit there for a minute wondering who in
this low rent, barhopping, misdemeanor charge of a town would dangle a claim
like that on Main Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shift the
lever to drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who in Clintonville has
the need to believe it, or the will to resist it?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I pull a u-turn and drive on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The air coming through the open
window is dense, cool and humid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
light in my head, but it aches all along my windpipe and down into my chest as
if I’d swallowed water the wrong way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
turn right, off Main Street, go about a third of a mile and make a left across
from Gall's Memorials--with its sign still advertising April Sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pass into the dusk of a broad concrete
overpass (Clintonville's best graffiti going dark on the walls--a fish, I
think, big enough to be Jonah's whale) before a quick curve left and a sharp
rise takes me up through the gates of Sacred Heart Cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">N</b>orma's
grave has no crab grass, yet, but I'm afraid the Parks Department will let
everything go to seed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up on the hill,
where grass is sparse and gaps fill in with pine needles, the older graves
gather violets, clover and plantain out of pollen blown up from the fields and
derelict lawns of Clintonville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
anything, Norma would want violets (Every spring one shaded corner of our yard
saturates with purple, like a blotter soaking up ink, a display she’d always
forbidden me to violate), but crab grass is another story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She'd be on her hands and knees, the way she
was last Memorial day--dirt smudged across her forehead, white gloves making
her fingers useless--snapping off wilds without getting the roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The weeder,” she'd called out to me in
sudden alarm, like she’d cut herself and needed a bandage to stop the blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’d knelt there in the middle of the yard,
as if stranded, looking around more and more often at the metastatic weeds, and
she’d waited on all fours, head tilted in appeal for my word to release her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Forget about the weeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come in and have some lunch," I called
back to her through the screen on the kitchen window. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then, slowly, straightening her
back, removing her gloves, finger by finger, brushing herself off in a fussy,
exaggerated, time gathering way, and then bracing herself on the weed bucket,
Norma rose to her feet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I almost lost track of
time," she said, bringing in the smell of grass and dirt with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was out of breath, and a violent, almost
purple flush soaked the little mounds of her cheeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turned my back then and cut the sandwiches,
feeling that dreadful purple spreading through my chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was after the first surgery, when they
didn't get it all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I take what I need from the trunk:
trowel, watering can, a tray of purple violas (I should have planted bulbs last
fall when they set the stone), two soft cloths and grass shears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, I clip the tall grass around the base,
where the town’s tractor doesn’t cut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The blades are oily-blue and sharp, making a decisive <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shfft</i> when they close under the tumbling
grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that I plant the flowers in
the neat rectangle of dirt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Violaceae</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corsica</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I set them aside at the nursery," I
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't say much more--a little
mumble of approval, maybe, as I make the holes and plant the flowers, covering
the roots with a trowel sweep and firming down the plants until the ground
resists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I water them and with what’s
left I wash away the dried dirt and the tight, gritty feeling from my
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The warm, root-raw smell, recalls
childhood Easter Sundays, days when I would go outside without a coat for the
first time and feel naked, another downy chick in the sun swollen world of
spring--weeks of pure season before steak barbeques corrupted the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plain dirt resurrects those days like the
dust of a pulverized crystal ball, a magic bound to visions of the past. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I reach out for the watering can, as
though it were a charm against slackness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The grackle droppings on the top of Norma's marker are next to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I douse and soak three immense chalky white
and black streaks, wipe them away with my cloth, slowly rubbing the entire
stone down front and back, consonant and vowel, rough and polished, even down
to the dried-on cocoa-like residue along the base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is almost dark by the time
everything is back in the trunk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let a
deep breath go for another day (an exercise like counting), expecting the
heaviness of my nights on the exchange, but breathing in a flutter of nerves as
I turn the ignition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b>
flip the headlights off as I corner the alley between Duda’s and The Chicken
Shack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is dark and quiet, but up
ahead floodlights shine on a wasteland of tire-rutted dirt and rusting
cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I park at the edge of Duda's lot
behind a Mach 1 set on blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Across from the garage, outside the
rim of light, a small cottage recedes behind giant overgrown lilac bushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their fragrance hits me as I come up the
flagstone walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dim wavering light
shines through twelve pane cottage windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I stop in the middle of the walk and read the sign hanging on a post
like the one out on the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
darkness, I press my face right up to it:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">SONORA</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Medium and Spiritual
Advisor</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Speak with the
dead</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For a moment the sign has the effect
of a billboard directing me to someplace I will never go, of public invitations
to tag and sidewalk sales that I will bypass without a look, of million dollar
sweepstakes in money-green envelopes I will throw away unopened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turn away, but I don't leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am leaving Norma behind there in the
wavering light, her disembodied glow, abandoning her for reasons and good
sense, while I go home to silent rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I turn again and grab the knocker
like a fool and knock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound makes
my heart jump as though I am inside and Sonora is the one knocking in the
night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The doorknob turns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought I would at least hear
footsteps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I stand back a little and
quickly fold my hands in front of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her face is shadowed, as mine must be through eight inches of open door,
until her right hand moves from behind the doorjamb and raises a slender candle
to the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm staring at her and she
must be scared, not only because she has narrowed the door crack, but also
because she has spoken to me, saying what I'm not sure, and I haven't answered
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn't know that her sign and
her name and the candle in her hand intimidate me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Can I help you?" she
asks, trying on impatience over her fear, in a rich slightly raspy voice, no
gypsy accent--no mysterious 'I am Sonora, I have been waiting for you.'</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I saw your sign; is it too
late?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sorry."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Well, that depends on what you
want."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A breeze combs the candle flame
forward and back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her throat dims and
lights up orange again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I want to speak to
someone."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Have they crossed over?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I nod and rub the side of my nose
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She cracks the door wider, looks
around and up at the murky sky, as though for guidance, sniffs the air and then
swings the door wide open.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No booze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a good sign," Sonora says,
smiling, as though she knew I'd think she was consulting with the stars, and
she motions with her head for me to enter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her place is small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The front room is no more than ten by
fourteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing in the middle
of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything sits on the
periphery--the white column candles on wrought iron stands, one in each corner,
an ottoman, against the back wall, piled with huge square pillows, and a shrine
on the far wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shrine is built in
three tiers, perhaps on crates, overlaid with richly colored fabric,
twenty-five or thirty green and blue glass votive candles on the first tier,
unframed photographs, rings and bracelets on the second, and on top bunches of
pampas grass and peacock feathers propped against the wall, with small white
bones scattered around them on the dark cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a Persian rug on the open floor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Take off your shoes," she
says, moving past me, carrying the lamp off with her through a curtained
doorway in the back wall.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the time I take my shoes off and
set them by the front door, she returns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She takes two pillows from the ottoman, throws them down and motions for
me to sit down in the middle of the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She sits on the other pillow and sets the candle on the floor between
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her face has settled on me,
registered itself now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is younger
than Norma by seven or eight years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
hair is longer, lighter than Norma's chestnut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her face is relaxed, shaped elegantly, except for the nose, which is
almost blunt with shadow (in daylight, perhaps, her face is not as I see it
now), and her eyes are a dark color, giving her a calm expression--one moment
serious and the next, with a slight twitch of her lips, amused.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Let me tell you a little about
what I do," she begins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I feel free of expectation, blank as
the moment of decision at a funhouse just before you hand the man your ticket
and see the look on his face, the certainty that nothing in there is capable of
scaring a two-year-old, nothing capable of capturing even the over-the-top
specter of the facade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the same,
there is little here--if only the name Sonora on her sign--that smacks of
facade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is just a woman--no flowing
occult garments, no crystal ball—only a woman in candlelight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"First of all, Mr.--" </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thornton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cliff Thornton."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"First of all, Mr.
Thornton," she says, "My name is Andre."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then apologetically:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I only use Sonora for the sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My late husband's name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It brings people in."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mouth curls slyly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Everybody makes their deal with the
devil.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The rest you can judge for
yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I channel spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing will appear in ghostly form for
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirits have no form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don't necessarily shake chandeliers,
move objects, or make wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spirit
will speak through me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may ask it
anything you like."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She says all this, even announces
her fee, with the modesty of a good door-to-door demonstrator, as though
offering goods that were tangible, beyond reproach, and a sale were just a
matter of need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My right leg falls asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shift, raising myself up on my hands and
reposition my legs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Who would you like to speak
with?" Andre asks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Look--" I begin.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"How long have you been
apart?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Ten months," I answer
automatically.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Just ten months?" she
asks.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Is that bad?"</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Well, it's just that the one
you wish to speak with may not have crossed over yet."</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I didn't know there was a
waiting period."</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Then why did you wait,"
she says, one eyebrow twitching as if she regrets how her words have come
across.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A sting travels up my nose and into
my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From now on I will answer only
to the flame.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I don't--" I begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My eyes well up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her hand reaches across the flame
and rests on mine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I pull away and rise to my feet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I tell her why, blinking furiously.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I don't believe in
spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sorry--"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She, Sonora, Andre, the medium,
still in her cross-legged sit, looks up at me, serious again, and says,
"I'm sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't mean it the
way it sounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn't questioning
your--devotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only meant to ask why
you came on this particular night."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I look down at the candle on the
floor and say nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now she rises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Well, that's all there is to it,
then."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She shows me to the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bend to pick up my shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carry them out with me into the dusty yard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Clyde?" she calls after
me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Cliff."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turn around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is leaning out of the doorway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Cliff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever been by yourself, you know,
doing something--shopping, driving, anything--and felt her presence so strongly
that you knew, absolutely knew, that she was there?"</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It flashes immediately: the morning
I woke up, about a week before Christmas, and felt Norma's hand on my bare arm,
heard her voice, like an echo in my own head, call my name so clearly that I
answered her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'll light a candle for
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is her name?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Norma," I say softly and
turn away for good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She can light a thousand candles if
it will help, but I can't exhume enough desire to bring her back, not against
that last, long, death-defying week, not for whatever sweepstake-spirit- raffle
is behind Sonora's curtained door.</span></div>
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say the same prayer every night--not exactly a Dear-God-in-heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is more like a flicker of conscious hope
as I pull back the covers--that sleep will happen instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lay my head on the pillow facing out, and
by a miracle, before I can even flip back the picture book of thought, learn
its sweet, repetitious phrases, savor my idiot's lapping tongue of brain
waves...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I wake up out of a dream at about
four a.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole thing took weeks, or
so it seems on this side of sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
want to remember all of it, every sacred moment, write it down and mark a red
letter on my calendar, tell everyone I meet about it, like the story of my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dreamed about Norma.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She was in the cemetery pulling
crabgrass by her tombstone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Have you seen Mr. Gall,"
she asked, looking up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn't spring
to her feet and rush with tears of joy to embrace me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the emotion stuck in my throat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I opened my mouth, told her how I loved and
missed her, but no sounds came out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
looked her over for any trace of the grave or of illness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Look what he's done to the
stone."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She pointed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I read the inscription out
loud:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"She lived beyond the call of
purple, because she never knew the difference between a grackle and a Brewer's
black bird.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"That is the curse of the
grackle," read another voice inside of my own voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Unless she finds the sacred shrine of
Norma, the grackles will continue to leave droppings on her grave."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then I was reading from a book in
the voice of Mr. Gall (from Gall Memorials), and we were not at the cemetery at
all, but in the sunny, mahogany paneled room of an old house:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"How do the grackles
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"They are much more intelligent
than people think," Norma said, her eyes set in dismay, like the word
dismay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could see it on the page I was
reading.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"They're smart because they've
interbred with crows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See how there is
no purple in their feathers when the sunlight hits them?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gall raised a bony finger at the passing
flock of bow tail grackles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"But
they have one weakness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can find the
shrine by counting the number of droppings on the tombstone..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We were back in a cemetery--not the
one in Clintonville, a secret burial place in the woods behind the old
house--counting off a pace for every grackle dropping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, at the edge of the grove there was
the shrine, all piled up with smooth, polished stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a candle, just blown out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could see the trail of smoke rising from
the wick, and knew that someone had been there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From a niche in the altar, a talking
skeleton mask, with polished stones for eyes and teeth, told us that we had
just missed Norma, the lady of the shrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But Gall, and the other Norma, who would not embrace me, and I all felt
her presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could see the dark hem
of her cloak disappearing on the pages of the book that somebody was reading.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A</b>bout
mid-morning at the nursery, while I think about the dream, snap yellow leaves
off of the annuals, untangle the trailing ends of hanging fuchsias, on a high
from balmy, soil rich, green house air--a customer at my shoulder asking
timidly about the variety of tomato in an unmarked tray--I try to straighten
out the problem of two Norma's by visualizing her face, to compare it with the
face in my dream, but I cannot frame it, cannot see her face at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I don't know how long I stare, face
blank as dawn, at beefsteak tomato plants, unable to think of a single word
that means the same as the rosy, gathered flesh of the giant fruit, the violent
flush in the little mounds of cheek I picture in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The woman stares back, open mouthed, on the
verge of a suggestion, when I hear myself say, "Sweepstake."</span></div>
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hunt down an unopened bottle of Seagram’s, the only thing that ever helped
Norma’s menstrual cramps, take it with me into my bath and drink it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cap the empty pint and float it in the tub
with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The belly of the bottle, like
the hull of a rusty barge, runs aground over my waving chest hair seaweed in
the Bay of Sternum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A photograph of Norma is on the edge
of the tub, beside my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I left the
nursery without a word, came right home when I couldn't picture her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I've heard of people passing out
drunk in their bathtubs and drowning, but I'm not that drunk, or even
sleepy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is numb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't tell if the water is hot or just
warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warm enough, because my cock is
swelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guide the empty bottle to
the pass between my knees, unscrew it and try to force the head and shaft
through the mouth and down the narrow neck, but it won't go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bottle starts to fill and sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take up a rhythm with my hand, and
eventually, after many minutes of thumb-cramping, monotonous, half-hearted
pulling, I come, insensibly, as though I've had a shot of Novocain in my groin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Later, from the couch (I don't
actually remember getting there, naked, damp, boozy, from the bathroom) I watch
the happy occupied square of the TV screen--the electric, jangling shows (total
winnings cash and prizes for the champion; a year's supply of consolation for
the loser), and the low key, every day intrigue of the soaps--and I drift in
and out of sleep, which feels best, cozy as a day years ago when I stayed home
with flu, and also slept, Norma's light feet padding around me, a cherished
sleep, through "One Life to Live” and “General Hospital”, somebody’s
wedding and a confrontation, snipping entire scenes with the weight of my
eyelids, both crucial and insipid dialogue, through the syndicated re-runs of
shows with laugh tracks, until the staccato theme of the news at six--my
Seagram's numb expired--jolts me, clear-headed, upright. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b>
go a little bit earlier tonight, at sundown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I knew that I was going back, I
panicked like a teenager trying to cover the whisky odor:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ablutions of Listerine, scourings with tooth
paste, finally a hot shower to cleanse my pores, cold at the finish to close
them off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even stopped at Cumberland
Farms on the way to pick up spearmint gum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You changed your mind,"
Andre says, leaning forward, her cheek pressed to the doorjamb.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I haven't changed anything except my
clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She lets me in, looking down at the
mat inside the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leave my shoes
there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre leads me with a touch on the
arm to her shrine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"There is Norma's flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you notice anything?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I shake my head, but amidst thirty
milky, golden tongues of the wonder that is fire (matter feeding shape,
movement, heat, light) I see true violet under the transparent other-lights
that halo through and around her flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Andre doesn't tell me what she sees, either.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Sit with me," she says,
again taking pillows from the ottoman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
do what she tells me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel myself
going with her already, resting in the palms of her hands, absorbing my own
silence, the private quality of dim light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will answer her questions, tell her everything she needs to know,
close my eyes, wait and listen for her voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is what she does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I channel spirits...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sit facing each other, the candle between
us in the center of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shift my
pillow and the flame stutters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Do you have anything of hers
with you?" Andre asks softly, in a monotone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I didn't know I--wait."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In my wallet is the photograph I
went home to look for when I lost her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had freed the snapshot from its frame, trimmed it down and tucked it
in a window slot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was taken at
Plymouth Harbor almost three years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Norma stands against the railing of the ferry, smiling self-consciously
at something I'd said, nothing I can remember now, or just at having her
picture taken in the sunlight with other people watching, a helpless
ID-photo-look-this-way-and-smile expression.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre leans forward, brings the
photo down close to the flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reach
out to stop her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She pulls back, looks
up at me in disbelief.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I just want to see her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Relax."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She lowers the photo again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a second I thought--"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"She's beautiful."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre looks up at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One eyebrow twitches for a moment as it did
last night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"If people only understood that
nothing is forever, not even separation; that nothing but fear and unbelief
keeps them apart."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She clasps the
picture between her hands, stretches her shoulders and head back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes glisten.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Just believe and you can be
with her again."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She leans closer and reaches out to
me around the flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take her hands,
close my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The photo comes between
my left and her right palm like a blotter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perspiration starts to seep like condensation out of my right hand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For a long time there is quiet, no
mystical alpha hum wavering from behind a curtain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind goes black in the aimless focus that
comes before a sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see or feel or
read thoughts which pass back and forth like plates at a table or trays of
potted hyacinths on sale over the counter at the nursery my trowel sinks again
into the dirt for something buried and I pull up roots to plant the roots over
the smell of dirt is a feeling that is passed over the counter in a tray of
photographs of people in the tray shuffle photographs to find the one of Norma
that was there before the photographs...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Cliffy?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The voice takes its volume out of
the last note of silence and the now scattered ramblings of my mind, of which
only a feeling, sweetness and loss, remains, and rises to the level of
hearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Norma always called me Cliffy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is sudden light, female tension in her
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't dare open my eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeh--"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My breath, as though long held, bursts, like
a dog's at the teasing of a treat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Cliffy, you're
here."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her voice is the shyness,
almost surprise in it, like the last time she was lucid, when she looked at me
and I just held her hand the whole day, held her before she slipped frightened
into gibber and sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Norma?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She squeezes my hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to throw my arms around her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Norma," I say it again to
be sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's you."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yes, I'm here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've wanted to be with you...If I could have
spared you any of this you know I would?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her voice rises in a question, as though I might doubt her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I know, I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've just missed you--God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don't know."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I laugh, but it aches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rub her knuckles, both hands, with my
thumbs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But you got here before it was
too late."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Too late?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look right at the sound of her voice
through my closed lids.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Something is about to
change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't know what or when, but
it won't be long."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Is there anyone?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I've been alone all this
time," she says, plaintively.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Norma, if I'd
known..."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I squeeze hard where I
know there'll be no pain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"How could you know?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I listen to her voice and see her
through the touch of her hands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"How long?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I almost hold my breath.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An uncertain pressure comes back
along her fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Will there be time to talk
with you again?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"There'll be time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything comes around in time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You just have to wait."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is a long silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It stretches out to the meeting of our hands,
the balance of our touch, like sudden strangeness or the chill after a good
sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realize how little there is to
say, both of us alone, one flesh the other spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reach back in my mind before the illness to
the last untainted shared experience, but I cannot say the words, cannot say do
you remember, not even to make her laugh or see her smile beneath my eyelids
once more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I just say, "Smile
for me, Norma?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to see you
smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tell me again that you're all
right."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I am," she says, and I
can hear the little glistening sound her lips make curling up over her teeth
when she smiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lift her hands up,
bring them together over the flame and kiss them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A longer silence follows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her hands stop holding mine back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let them rest, press them once to the rug
and draw my hands back into my lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After another minute I open my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Andre sits, face like stone, nose blunt, eyes in shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rising slowly, noiselessly so that I
don't disturb her trance, one step over my pillow, I back away, like a hunter
come across a sleeping lioness, and, with one eye on Andre--I don't want to
speak to her, break this silence at all--I reach down for my shoes, turn the
door handle, breath held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The candles on the shrine cast a
still, joyous light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My movements hardly
cause a flicker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the last moment I
remember the money and leave it on the floor beside her sandals.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A</b>
few minutes before noon, Marge Tolleson watches me from behind the greenhouse
register, as suspicious of a ten-month widower in a hop-step-whistling mood as
she is worried over an ten-month widower with a
dragged-my-ass-here-so-I-wouldn't-shoot-myself demeanor, probably thinking
about the morning talk show she has seen on the warning signs of suicide and
wondering if she should mind her business, as she seldom does, or say something
to me before it is too late: feel foolish now, or guilty after I'm dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bless her heart, Marge looks out for me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Well," she says,
"This weather must agree with you Clifford."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I can't hold back my smile, both for
her mask and for my secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to
tell her, everybody who has ears, to let them hear, but it would sound like I
was going over the edge (or like a dream, the kind that falls apart when you try
to tell it).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yes,"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tap the counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm going out now to eat lunch, if
anybody--"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The greenhouse door opens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andre walks in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"If anybody needs me," I
look quickly back to Marge with all my attention, "I'll be out under the
trees."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I walk by Andre--avoiding her eyes
because I don't know how to look at her here, because Marge is watching--right
through the door, like a high school boy flustered to rudeness, a crush of
blood packed scarlet from my neck to my forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wait outside for a moment, my back to the
door, expecting to hear it swing behind me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When she doesn't follow me, I feel belief-shaken in this
better-than-money-back guarantee against coincidence that I would not allow
myself to believe in by staying inside and greeting her like my invited guest.</span></div>
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</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b>t
is a loose shade of spreading, tender bat-winged maple leaves, where I sit on a
wooden crate, lunch bag unopened between my feet, where Andre tells me how she
walked straight to the counter and asked Marge a question about transplanting
shrubs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"'Oh, Mr. Thornton will
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just walked out the
door.'"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the honest light of shade,
Andre's hair is darker than I imagined under the polarized, filament lightning
of candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her nose is upturned
slightly, not blunt (lopped off by last night's shadow), her face is pale,
hardly made up at all, so that freckles can just be seen--the way the unopened
buds of yellow hawkweed catch a trained eye gazing at a field--a simple
landscape, almost blank, with so much depending on her mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm sorry about leaving you
there; I don't know what got into me," I tell her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Well, it's my own fault
showing up like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have
known..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Known what?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She looks up at me, gestures in an
off-hand way, as if she shouldn't have to say it, as if she is here to bolster
my fragility, tend a young shoot:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sonora, medium and spiritual advisor, nurtures the faithless.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"That it could be awkward for
you."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Why should it be awkward for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">me</i>?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre flinches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her arms fold into her breasts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm sorry," I tell her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It was a bad idea for me to
come here."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andre waves a hand over
my anger and rudeness, and she gets up to go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Why did you come here?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You left this," she says
pulling a paper rectangle out of her canvas shoulder bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It seemed important to you."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She hands me Norma's photograph, not
face up or face down, but vertical between two scissored fingers, and she
watches me, my eyes moving up and down from her watching to the angle of the
photograph, the glossy time-stilled image on one side and the white backing
crowded with blue penmanship, as if holding her breath.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Thank you."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look up at her, put the photograph in my
breast pocket without looking at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lines relax in Andre's forehead, but her eyes make a wish on my pocket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turns to go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Andre?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crisp edge of the photo pinches at my
left nipple through my shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"How
did you find me here?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She turns around with that wry look,
and one eyebrow taking off at the end like an upturned wing, as if she's going
to say, 'I am Sonora, I speak with the dead to the lifeless, I seek out the
skeptical; this is what I do', only this Andre is not the woman of shrines and
voices of the once living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her arms,
slender bridges to me, drop to her sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She looks down at the white crests of her feet, reaches into her breast
pocket and slides out another rectangle of paper between her fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"My card."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It was with the money you
left."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I sit back, hands on my thighs, my
legs turned out in a wide lax diamond, and laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You really had me going (you
could have pulled it off).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you
hungry?" I ask, reaching for the brown bag.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yes," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I motion for her to sit again on her
crate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Turkey and cheese?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I hand her a badly wrapped
sandwich--cellophane ends matted in a lump at the center like a dead silken wad
in the middle of a spider's web--turning it sideways, too late to cover my
carelessness with fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Nice job," she says,
holding the sandwich out flat on her palms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You weren't supposed to look
at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually nobody was supposed to
see that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually eat alone."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre's smile melts into a curious
search of the nursery behind me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over
her shoulder the rim of a grassy field nourishes on full sunshine, immutable as
the tree that casts shade.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Nobody eats with you?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I've always eaten alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even before--"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre takes a quick bite of her
sandwich, stares at the place where she has bitten.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But sometimes, in the good
weather, Norma would bring lunch down with her from Lund’s Deli downtown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She worked at the bank right across the
street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know the one in town."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre nods.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Anyway, the sandwiches would
all be wrapped just so in butcher’s paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I start out okay, with the bread in the center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I start to fold, and well, no matter
what--"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Don't make a case out of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, who am I going to report you
to?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We bite into our sandwiches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It strikes us funny at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre waves off my thought as she
finishes her swallow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Mm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Come on."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She touches the
back of her free hand to her lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Even with food in my mouth there's still room for my foot."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Look, it was funny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You speak to the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven't lost my sense of humor; and I don't
fall apart at the mention of her name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don't talk about Norma much, but it doesn't mean I can't."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her eyes narrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little wrinkles gather around them, adding
warmth to her expression, the comfortable warmth of an afternoon in May.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Maybe it's time you did."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Maybe."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smile down at the dirt, tilt the sandwich
so that the edge where I've bitten lines up, more or less, with a snap of
twig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"You have a great voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like this woman in a hair commercial I wait
all evening for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's what she says,
'maybe it's time you did', about some shade of blonde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watch too much TV these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, once in a while I think, if I'm in
town, that I see Norma, passing in a car, or in the checkout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's like her form is out there, inhabited by
a completely different person, and she wouldn't recognize me if she looked
right at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that ridiculous?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre shakes her head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a way she is out there."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A blackbird flies by, letting out
its hackle of a call and a big white dropping over the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smile, broadly, stupidly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What?" she says.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm laughing at something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bird shit."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She looks up, feels the top of her
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Don't tell me--"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her face goes pink.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No, not on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'd have felt this one believe me."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I point at the field.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"That happened to me once in
grade school during recess," she admits, and I know she's remembering,
feeling that warm white ooze soaking into her hair, because her face flushes.
"Children are cruel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that's
why I never became a teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm still
mortified at the thought of being shat upon by birds and being alone in a room
full of children."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What did you become?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean besides--"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"A mystic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I'll tell you as soon as I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got married at nineteen to Arturo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the best idea, considering how much he drank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took twelve years--well let’s just say on
the day he died I was praying for a way out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One night he went out and never came back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The police showed up at my door the next day
to tell me Art had lost it in a car wreck."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre takes a bite of turkey and
cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember the juice boxes in my
lunch bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hand her one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Thanks," she says, sets
the sandwich in her lap and strips the straw off, pokes it through the eye in
the carton, sips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"My Aunt Rise
taught me to read palms and give séances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She said I had the gift, told me stories about things I did when I was a
child, things I can barely remember, but I never did anything with it until Art
was gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even wondered if my gift had
something to do with his death, which was ridiculous I suppose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that was what got me thinking about
reading palms and channeling spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had to do something.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It took a while to get it
working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I think of it more as a
kind of intuition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, it's not all
supernatural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'd be surprised how
much we pick up with our five natural senses, how much good observation can
reveal about people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people just
don't bother to notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference
is just being able to focus on all the energy that comes your way, sorting it
out and reconstructing it in a sensible way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do you know what I'm saying?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I look down at the twig in the dust,
as though somehow it's going to shelter me from her question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I clear my throat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I guess I never thought there
was much of anything to it before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Norma’s cancer forced me to rethink a lot of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made me do some strange things too, like
mourning her before she was gone and feeling relieved when she finally
died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To see it every day, eat and sleep
with it, to watch her being metamorphosed into something else right before
me—or at least I thought so, when really it was me who changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lost her from the inside out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm ashamed that I let her become cancer and
death, because she was never that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wish I had always been strong enough to hold onto her through the anger and the
terrible pain she endured."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Cancer is more a kind of knowledge than a disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really thought I knew the ground, until I
gave Norma up to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always thought it
was generous, but it takes more than it gives back."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I reach down and pluck at some
grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre looks to a place in the air
where her truth is clearly written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
says, "Art's death was a shock, but near the end I'd come to believe that
to be free of him, either he or I would have to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And though I wanted to deny it, I was better
off without him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's taken me five
years to admit that, and worse even, knowing what you’ve lost, the fact that
his death probably saved my life."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"That’s part of the
knowledge," I say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"When life
is hell, there’s no hope of heaven, because I can't say I’ve ever believed in
any heaven but this life."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look up
through the leaves and branches to the bits of blue that make sky.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre says, "I fell somewhere
between heaven and hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was left with
a big house in Bolton, which I promptly sold, and an embarrassing sum from life
insurance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I haven't exactly been
ambitious, I've been able to do what I please."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"And you still use his
name?" I say, and take the last bite of my sandwich.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andre looks up to consult her
airborne Ouija, where she also seems to store her reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's a mysterious name and I've always
liked it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it's the one part of
Arturo I've chosen to keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's wrapped
up with everything I know about life and death and the spaces between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you hold on to Norma?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Because I can't live with her
memory."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I thought you couldn't live
without it."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I used to think that."</span></div>
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first things I notice are the grackle droppings on Norma’s head stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two, one still slick as wet paint, the
other chalky, crumbling, remind me absurdly of Pharaoh's dream of plenty and
famine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think of an
interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me one is present,
the other past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Will the dissolving
past swallow up the present?' Pharaoh asks Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wash them both away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's very little to do here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pansies are blooming strong and the grass
is clipped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I settle back on the ground,
hands behind my head, warmed by the earth from below and the last hour of
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don't feel anything in the wake, not silence, waiting, or pain, not even the
desire to be heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I breathe deeply
enough to feel air swirl through my lungs and rise like a column into my
brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the waning sunlight, robins
hop, then stand rigid between the tombstones as if imitating the stillness of
stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't feel Norma here at
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the night I spoke to her,
held her hands and saw her smile without seeing, I have been able to envision
her the way she was before her illness (without the help of the photograph from
Plymouth), but I am unable to speak to her or feel her anywhere in my midst,
not even in the house, as though at once she had been restored to me and taken
far beyond my reach.</span></div>
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breast pocket and read the writing on the back:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Norma & Cliffy, Plymouth, October ‘04.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear the voice from across the flame,
"Cliffy?" and I remember Andre examining the photograph close to the
lamp, then handing it back to me sideways, a subtle way of suggesting that I
look at both sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see now what she
wanted me to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, not a moment
before she had brought Norma back from the other side and returned me safely
from the foot of an abandoned, smoking shrine to the taste of shared
sandwiches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was handing me a refund,
taking down her irresistible, life-seducing sign, snuffing candles, sweeping
away feathers, bones and pampas grass forever, and furnishing her empty room
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John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-82772095856673310222019-03-06T05:42:00.001-08:002019-05-17T08:52:23.317-07:00The Transcendence of Television: Immortality, Serial Dementia and Illusions of the InfiniteLast spring I volunteered to pick up roadside trash for the town's green-up day. There were three denominations of garbage that were overwhelmingly discarded on the roadsides above all others: cigarette butts, alcohol containers and junk food wrappers. To me there seemed to be a correlation between what we consumed, how we treated our bodies and our relationship to our immediate environment. To wit, those who trash their bodies, think nothing of trashing the roadsides of their towns and neighborhoods. The garbage that floats on the cultural ocean of American movies and t.v., is equally prolific, yet a closer look reveals as much about what preoccupies us, what we put in our minds, as the roadside trash says about what we put in our bodies.<br />
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The explosion of original television series and movies on streaming networks Netflix, Amazon and Hulu (not to exclude network T.V.), have replicated like fruit flies on a bowl of rotting pears left by a sunny window. There are clouds of them. So many choices. Too much t.v. and too little life to devote to them. If you think you are missing out on something, fear not. Many are cheap derivatives of a Hollywood hit (a cheesy hit at that), more often something done better on premium cable, which usually was adapted from something done even better in a novel (yeah, those things nobody really reads anymore; more on that later). As for the television fruit flies of steaming t.v. you just have to cut through some of the genre blending and bending to reveal the dominant forces in the cultural zeitgeist.<br />
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<b>The Supernatural (Myths and Monsters)</b><br />
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A couple of the series of recent years that have captured the public's imagination<b> </b>include <i>American Horror Story</i> and <i>Stranger Things</i>. These are interesting examples because they derive from the two central strains of the supernatural in t.v.: the former from the original spooky/scifi anthology series <i>The Twilight Zone </i>and the latter (as do all others of its ilk) from <i>Twin Peaks.</i> Whatever the sub-genre, from Vampires and Werewolves to Witches and Zombies, and the strange-goings-on-in-a-small-town, one major change from the earliest incarnations of the genre is that the fangers and freaks are often the heroes (or anti-heroes) of the shows. Some of the mystique of perennial icons of horror have been dimmed as
the vampires and werewolves have been humanized, as in HBO's <i>True Blood</i>. There has also been a refreshing element of camp and humor added to this historically grim genre. The monsters in our midst theme is about coming to terms with otherness and difference, not necessarily the embodiment of our primal fears and our dark side. <br />
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The mythic premises house metaphors too. Usually the<i> </i>familiar tropes of good and evil, (sometimes fate and destiny) laced
with a heavy dose of nostalgia for the abandoned magic of the theology
and demonology of biblical Christianity (in the case of <i>American Gods</i> even Greek mythology). The eponymous<i> Midnight, Texas</i> (NBC) is a town that straddles the fault line between heaven and
hell. It's probably no coincidence that this idea was better and more subtly evoked
in season two of HBO's existential drama <i>The Leftovers</i>,
where an ancient well is the place between heaven, earth and the
underworld in the town of Jardin, Texas. What sets <i>The Leftovers</i>
apart from most t.v. shows (supernatural or otherwise), aside from its psychological depth and its beautiful
design, is that it is not trying to cater to wish fulfillment, or follow established formulas that appeal to the key demographic groups. Rather than containing a system, with its own unique rules, which is revealed and explained in due time for the audience, the story premise, that 2 percent of the world's population disappears one day, backgrounds an archetypal hero myth (more strongly foregrounded by Season 3) about finding
meaningful attachment and belief in a world where everything
you love can be taken away from you in an instant.
It intuitively and elegantly dramatizes how
people cope in a time of intensified or catastrophic loss, and does not
trade in comforting modes of escape. The forces behind the sudden departure are
never fully understood or explained (now there's realism); its
characters are not defined in terms of good or evil but by how they've chosen to cope--succumbing to despair or nihilism, clinging to magical
superstitions or conspiracy theories as solace (understanding the underlying cause of tragedy is one way people
cope); insisting on staunch rationality and psychoanalytic models in the face of the inexplicable, or clinging to each other as a way to regain what was taken from
them, perhaps before they've fully come to terms with their loss.
Ultimate answers and a coherent worldview, many
narrative loose threads later, cannot be found. They are beside the point and that is what a mass television audience finds so alienating about the show. In the absence of answers, the show's final episode suggests, we have to find a story, an explanation, that allows us to go forward, find the courage to live on after the illusions of everyday life have been stripped away to reveal the terror and loss that was lurking all along. The power of that confrontation with death and how helpless we are as humans brings an emotional catharsis that is utterly novelistic in its power, and the sheer beauty of its
formal aesthetic transcends the notion that this is television. It faces the essential truth of being human in a way no other television drama has before or since, and for that it is the crown jewel of the television era.<br />
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<b>The Motive</b>: The supernatural drama is conceived as existential metaphor, rather than a purely 'thrill' genre. As the world gets bleaker, people are looking for some kind of transcendence (as conventional religion and science too have failed to deliver). The strange intrusion of the supernatural represents outside intervention and the uncertainty it brings is preferable to waking up to the reality of the opioid crisis, gun violence, out of control forest fires, our teetering democracy, home foreclosure, facing illness with crap health insurance and mind numbing service jobs that pay shit and have no benefits. <br />
<b>The Message</b>: Things are not always as they seem (we hope); we may be vulnerable and misunderstood freaks but we are special and powerful too. <br />
<b>Wish fulfillment</b>: Finding acceptance, community and some kind of moral framework in dark times, especially for "freaks" and outsiders. <br />
<b>Ultimate Truth</b>: Somebody out there had better be in control of this ship, or we're sunk.<br />
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<b>Conclusion: </b>When it comes to the supernatural, be wary of special effects, and go with two strange and archetypal masterpieces. Try the boundary pushing <i>Twin Peaks </i>(especially <i>Fire Walk with Me, </i>the first season and the epic and otherworldly strangeness of the 3rd and final season). Then, clear your head, turn off your smartphone and be ready to pay attention and get real with all three seasons of <i>The Leftovers</i>.<br />
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<b>Superheroes</b><br />
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These are the dominant force in motion picture blockbusters today, from <i>Wonder Woman</i> to <i>Black Panther</i>, but there are a number of current t.v. series spread across several cable networks and just as many new ones slated for 2019. This mega-genre bears some relationship to the supernatural genre in that some superheroes have supernatural powers, live underground lives and often have dual identities, like their supernatural freak counterparts. For some reason they have to hide themselves, perhaps owing to their potential vulnerability to their arch villains and the attention they would otherwise gather from the adoring public (kind of like celebrities). One convention of the genre is, of course, that they are misunderstood by the public and sometimes villified by the villains themselves or they are of somewhat mixed moral character, so must secret themselves out of some sense of shame.<b> </b>Why are they so popular? Ernest Becker would have seen it as a natural part of our hero system: "When we appreciate how natural it is for man to strive to be a hero, how deeply it goes in his evolutionary and organismic constitution, how openly he shows it as a child, then it is all the more curious how ignorant most of us are, consciously, of what we really want and need."<br />
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It must speak to how unsatifying and lacking in viable heroes and heroism our culture is to make such an obsession so eminently marketable. The veneration extends from annual Comicon events to which hundreds of thousands flock to the phenomenon of Cosplay: dressing and acting the part of any popular t.v., movie or comic book character. Though Cosplay seems a too reductive playing at hero to count as useful creativity. The incredible detail and extravagance of the costumes makes you wonder if these people have anything else to do. Want to be a hero? How about taking a stand for something in real life? We elevate sports heroes and military heroics and we combine the two
religiously with military flyovers during major sports events like the
Superbowl. It is all about pugilists, gladiators and warriors. Our politicians are corrupt and venal. Our celebrities are beautiful and shallow. The best we can do is worship at the altar of fictional ideals.<br />
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<b>The Motive: </b>At a time when the majority of people feel essentially powerless in their lives, and abandoned by the powers that be, they are looking to redeeming fantasies of heroic beings to take the place of our abandoned gods and failing institutions, and fulfill our evolutionary drive to be an object of primary value (the hero). Some superheroes are ordinary people, often troubled and haunted people, who put on a suit and a mask and become super-human. Most have an Achilles heel. Superman's Kryptonite is the most iconic example. But for two hours on the big screen, they fight the villains and give us a false sense of hope and a momentary feeling of vindication that lasts until the feature streams on our favorite service and we can watch it again. <br />
<b>The Message: </b>Good triumphs over evil, until the sequel<b>. </b><br />
<b>Wish Fulfillment: </b> Vengeance is mine saith the superhero and I wish I could leap tall buildings in a single bound.<br />
<b>The Ultimate Truth: </b>Good and evil is not only about heroes and villains, it is also about corrupt and greedy systems that need to be changed. The question is can we change systems without changing the nature of mankind?<br />
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<b>Conclusion: </b>Mistakenly viewed as a progressive genre, many of the big Hollywood franchises trade in the window dressing of identity politics that promote self-congratulatory feelings, or globalist propaganda with the heroes and their leagues acting as stand-ins for the USA or some idea of a liberal Western society. Worst of all, with their thrilling special effects and manipulation of emotion they are one of the most powerful narcotics this side of opioids. Unplug this genre altogether and spend a few hours reading a book, preferably a good one. As an antidote, try Christopher Hedges "America: the Farewell Tour" and find out that the real threat to existence does not leer from behind a creepy mask, and how a real every day hero gets by with two ordinary hands and feet.<br />
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<b>Techno-Thrillers; Science Fiction: </b><br />
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We are so in love with technology. From <i>Mr. Robot </i>to <i>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, </i>from <i>Inception </i>to <i>Minority Report</i>, whether its hackers or dream-sharing technology, we can't get enough of the dazzling and sinister possibilities of technology done right, then gone wrong. This category is every bit as much about where big tech has taken us, the mode as much as the medium of t.v and movies. Big tech has succeeded in keeping a global audience self-secured to the umbilicus of technology while feeding it a steady steam of cautionary tales about the dangers of technology, like some kind of failed self-inoculation. After all, what is the meaning of this futile exercise that has never in any way deterred or put anybody off either creating or consuming the latest technological wonder/trap? Unfortunately, even the Jurassic Park franchise has to be put in this category. It is not really about dinosaurs at all, but they are really the best thing about this series. And if it were possible to recreate dinosaurs, human beings would do it--for both profit and wonder. The lesson of the original Jurassic Park didn't sink in with the fictional humans in the sequels (even though the message was clear). After all, we could not have had a franchise if humans had gotten the point. This sort of negates any moral dilemma that had been raised at the outset. We just want to see dinosaurs and their special brand of carnage recreated realistically with the latest CGI.<br />
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<b>The Motive: </b>What will they think of next? <br />
<b>The Message: </b>Technology is the God of human progress. There is apparently a firm belief that we will either be saved or destroyed by our technology; and no matter what the risk of abuse or danger to our privacy, security and autonomy, we say give me tech or give me death. <br />
<b>Wish Fulfillment: </b>If I can follow this convoluted piece of progress pushing nonsense, maybe I'm not as stupid as my chem teacher thought I was, i.e. technology makes us smarter. <br />
<b>The Ultimate Truth: </b>When our destruction comes we will stream it live and rather than try to actually escape it, we will be mesmerized by it. Which is sort of what we are doing with our lives anyway.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Conclusion: </b>If we really saw this genre as anything but high tech masturbatory material, we might take a step back, unplug a little more and actually pay attention to the ways technology is already being used to control and surveil us. Maybe take one of those high-tech time machines back to a pre-surveillance world.<br />
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<b>Detective/Police/Crime/Military/Anti-Terror </b><br />
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There's the war on drugs, prosecutorial powers and harsher criminal sentences reaching new levels of excess; there's the War on Terror stoking paranoia, bringing us the Patriot Act and a far reaching surveillance that has ended privacy, as well as agencies like Homeland Security and ICE, and let's not forget, the militarization of the police. With the rise of an American police state, it is inevitable that the offerings of this genre would encompass the whole of our national security apparatus. Not only is there the old fashioned private eye and ever popular crime fighting duo, there's the day in the life of America's finest (often with the word blue in the title), the <i>Law and Order</i> style police procedural with it's special crimes units, there are CSI's, NCSI's, JAGS, cold case units, serial killer units, special forces, FBI, Homeland Security, spy dramas, undercover units, why even Lucifer has gotten involved in solving crimes. If the devil himself is no longer outside the law, then we've definitely reached a new threshold in conformity messaging.<br />
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When people say that Hollywood and the entertainment industry is a liberal bastion, I say look at the number, scope and tenor of this genre to get a feeling for how retrograde the industry truly is. Watch a steady diet of these shows and you will be completely desensitized to police methods, draconian laws, excesses and abuses of judicial and prosecutorial power, the militarization of police forces, the ubiquity of law enforcement presence, government surveillance of emails and cell calls, the normality of the police state itself. And it's no accident. Among the ideas you will become inured to: anyone who clams up and asks for an attorney has to be guilty (because, after all, if you are innocent you have nothing to fear from the police, right?); it's okay to bend the rules or subvert constitutional rights as long as Sam Waterston is sure the defendent is guilty; DAs are the good guys and all defense attorneys are grand-standing sleazeballs who would get Jack the Ripper off if it would increase their public profile; criminal cases usually go to trial (in fact only about 3 percent of defendants get their day in federal court). Stacked charges and enhanced sentences have meant that most defendants take plea deals and with mandatory minimums these are not light sentences, but to go to trial and lose could mean spending a big chunk of time behind bars, and the cost of a trial with a competent attorney is beyond most people's means. Further fun facts: one in twenty-five of those sentenced to death have been wrongly convicted. The numbers of those unjustly convicted in misdemeanor cases is reportedly much higher. Given the unreasonably high bails, those who cannot post them are pressured to take plea deals (admitting guilt whether or not they are guilty) rather than sit in jail unconvicted for months or up to a year awaiting trial. The prosecutors offer one day only plea deals to turn up the heat on those whose lives hang in the balance. What this process amounts to is a form of extortion and harassment of the poor the likes we haven't seen since the days of debtors prisons and indentured servitude. <br />
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<b>The Motive: </b>Why are the liberal elites so gung-ho for law enforcement? To protect their massive wealth and property against the unruly mobs, could be one reason. The main driver of this genre is to convey to the populace that the more law and order there is, the more safe and secure they will be. <br />
<b>The Message: </b>You have nothing to fear from the law unless you are guilty. <br />
<b>Wish Fulfillment: </b>Guilty until proven innocent. <br />
<b>The Ultimate Truth: </b>The country that considers itself the freest in the world, incarcerates more people than any other nation. It is in fact a very free country if you are a wealthy criminal. The truth is we are a country with two different justice systems. But about the only outrage most white people ever express about our justice system is over the OJ verdict. One black defendant gets a rich white man's justice and 25 years later, white people still can't get over it. <br />
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<b>Conclusion</b>: Boycott this genre unless something really good with a broader perspective comes along , such as HBO's haunting and tragic limited series, <i>The Night Of. </i>At least think before you settle in with reruns of your favorite Law and Order franchise and that bowl of low-fat ice cream. One thing is for sure, the televised police state can't be much better for the human spirit and psyche than the real one lurking as close as your I-phone.<br />
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This genre has been in the popular imagination since Huxley's <i>Brave New World. </i>Almost two decades later, the other iconic dystopian vision, Orwell's <i>1984, </i>came
on the scene. In hindsight, it's popular to debate which author was the better prophet,
but neither of them have the last word on the subject. There are actually
quite a few new visions of the dystopian future to choose from. So many, that they may be the touchstone genre of the past 10 or 15 years. It has preoccupied the likes of Cormac McCarthy in <i>The Road</i> and become a Hollywood obsession of grotesque and baroque imagination: <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i>, <i>The Purge </i>and <i>Blade Runner 2049 </i>(not to mention the many sci-tech movies backgrounded in dystopian worlds), plus the YA trilogies (<i>The Hunger Games </i>and <i>Divergent) </i>that have spawned popular movie franchises. On t.v., AMC's <i>The Walking Dead </i>is the perennial standard-bearer of dystopian mayhem. These are survival stories in the face of bleak conditions, environmental disaster and civilization's ruin. Human being's ability to trust each other, cooperate and even survive the harsh conditions and the ruthless instinct to grab the last scraps of sustenance is the greatest challenge. These dramas force viewers to put themselves into such scenarios and ask of themselves: What would I do under the circumstances? How would I act? What character would I be? <br />
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<b>The Motive: </b>By identification it is pretty easy to decide who we'd like to emulate, but we don't watch these stories to steel ourselves for future disasters and to bolster our characters into a heroic frame. No, this genre represents the counter-intuitive escapism of choice. <br />
<b>The Message: </b>your life sucks, your family is a disaster area, your job may be worse, in fact you may never be able to retire from it (and suicide is beginning to look like a more attractive option than getting older)--but wait, things could be much worse. You emerge from the theater or from a <i>Walking Dead </i>binge and think, life is good. The streets aren't full of flesh-eating monsters; you can still breath without a gas mask (except some days in China); you can still buy gasoline; the grocery stories aren't looted shells. Yes, our sucky lives are still, as Larry David would say, pretty, pretty, pretty good.<br />
<b>Wish Fulfillment: </b>Seeing the world end and living to tell about it.<br />
<b>The Ultimate Truth: </b>Things can't keep going the way they are going forever. We're just messing up too many things.<br />
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<b>Conclusion: </b>Just as Huxley was truly trying to look into a real future world based on what he knew of human nature and social control, and Orwell was really resetting the world of post-war London into the future and his totalitarian world was based on the Stalinism of his day, so you can look at today's dystopian offerings and see which ones are creating worlds with a true eye on the future, and those that are projecting extreme parallels of what is going on in the world already.<br />
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<b>Anti-Hero Dramas:</b><br />
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<b> </b>The anti-hero was born in the literary world centuries before it became the overarching trope on t.v. for exploring the moral complexity of human nature. It is almost indispensably and reflexively the starting place of most shows that wish to be seen as "edgy" and sophisticated. Good guys are for the Hallmark Channel. It has allowed us, at its best, to see the kind of characters we love to hate, and experience the moral ambiguities of the real world in ways t.v. and movies had been too conventional to show us in the past. The good guys were good and bad guys were bad and never the twain shall meet. But as the realities of economic globalism bring an increasing sense of connection between the lifestyles we live here (the ways in which our patterns of consumption and other geopolitical forces) have ripple effects across the world, it has become more difficult for us to broadly isolate ourselves from the consequences of our everyday choices. Plus, heightened ideological polarities have forced cultural confrontations, such that the veneer of civility has been stripped away. It was only a matter of time before our protagonists exhibited this moral splintering between ideal behavior and real-life shortcomings, between social conventions and undercurrents of less civilized emotions. While Tony Soprano is usually associated with the rise of the anti-hero on t.v., the character of Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue may actually have proceeded him by a few years. He captured the racially tinged zeitgeist of the tough on crime 90's that heralded the rise of the burgeoning American police state (see Detective/Police/Crime/Military/Anti-Terror above). It is for that reason he is generally overlooked. However politically incorrectly he behaved, he represented an establishment viewpoint after all. At it's worst the anti-hero has been granted a license, has created a cheering gallery for the worst in human behavior with often little more humanity than familial loyalty or a flimsy ethical code to mitigate our disgust.<br />
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Showtime's <i>Ray Donovan </i>comes to mind. It has become in it's latter seasons a broad canvas for cycles of mindless, credulity straining violence, with high body counts, frequent disposals and dismemberment, and most remarkably a string of killings by Ray and members of his family that magically are never traced back to them. It became obscenely comical near the end of Season 5, as daughter Bridget hoists a chain saw to help dismember the bodies of some corrupt cops. The family that slays together... The resigned march to existential and moral hell behind Ray's near zombified and punch drunk stagger is one of the low points of the t.v. anti-hero and should give the show's creators pause when it comes to creating a story board for Season 6 (read cancel it). Speaking of Showtime hits that didn't know when to quit, <i>Dexter,</i> took the anti-hero idea to its thrilling and extreme conclusion. Yet its inability to develop the character and the material in Season 5 toward a convincing denouement after the shattering and climactic Trinity case in Season 4, left the show with nothing else to offer but kill room repeats and the same fatalistic lessons. It insisted all along that a psychotic killer could have insights about his violent nature, while making him incapable of learning from them, and because of this failure it would drone on into Serial Dementia for another three seasons.<b> </b><br />
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<b>The Motive: </b>Perfect people don't exist and aren't interesting anyway because they always make the right choices. So let's put our subjects under intense pressure, let the causal world of the novel lead the way, and then, just then, we may get a glimpse of what human beings are really like. <br />
<b>The Message: </b>Judge not, lest ye be judged. <br />
<b>Wish fulfillment: </b>Vicariously we can step on the cracks, get out of line, make impulsive life changing decisions, feel pity about the mess left behind, and then at the finish sigh with relief that it's not our life. <br />
<b>Ultimate Truth: </b>The unconventionality of the anti-hero has quickly become a cliche itself. More problematic, is the way it has become, minus the soul-searching, a model for conventional behavior. <br />
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<b>Conclusion: </b>With the grotesquue orange-haired, orange-faced, Anti-hero-in-chief spewing a Vesuvius of lies and leaving a trail of avarice, conflict of interest, criminal indictments and incompetence broadcast via twitter and the echo chamber of Fox state t.v. it may be time to give the contemporary icon of the anti-hero a carefully considered reboot. For one thing, there isn't a writer who can create a fictional drama capable of sustaining the screenplay twists of our daily news cycles, or hold the ongoing interest of a culture with such an insatiable appetite for serialism on demand. T.V. can't keep up with Trump. It also reveals how exposure to increasing doses of uncritical, less nuanced storytelling from an extreme narcissist's point of view can sicken and damage a culture. Even on t.v., false narratives and debunked nonsense offered in an entertaining format can seduce the intellectually vulnerable and discourage those who are too appalled and exhausted to change the channel.<br />
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Some of the most noteworthy series on t.v. in recent years have come from adaptations of upmarket literary fiction, and even those that originated as teleplays and series pilots were based on the unfolding, causal structure of the novel, rather than the episodic nature of the traditional t.v. series. It was topical and followed ongoing personal narratives in such a discontinuous way that it was not critical to watch every episode.<b> </b>With the novelistic series, the addictive quality is the draw, while the drawback is the commitment involved. You can't miss episodes without losing track of what is going on. The streaming networks mentioned at the outset have in large part solved this problem. It is easy to catch up, or binge watch previous seasons when time allows. Depending on how many series you follow, however, it still amounts to a lot of time watching the tube.<br />
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The best of these adaptations include HBO's <i>The Leftovers. </i>The first season followed Tom Perotta's novel of the same name very closely. But the final two seasons had to be created with new material and yet still find that novelistic form that had made the 1st season a rare work of television art. The episodes each found their own structure, and what aesthetic pleasure and poignancy was wrought from these beautiful narrative designs, with music that elevated the atmosphere to a semi-religious/transcendental experience. The limited series also has produced gems like Season 1 of True Detective and The Night Of. The most popular of these novel-based series by far has been Game of Thrones, based on a seven novel project by George R.R. Martin, a television series that has outstripped the author's pace and will be finished before the books. Such is the demand and hunger for THE SERIAL. Tales abound online at how voracious fans turned hatefully on Martin for taking so many years to complete the 5th volume (the last thus far completed of the projected 7). Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I mean just find something else to read while you're waiting people. The problem at the heart of serialized novels, not written like <i>The Leftovers </i>as a stand-alone, is the potential effect on the integrity of the form, especially how such a commercially hot trend can infect good novelists with a new itch to duplicate the same novel and a treasured set of characters to the point of nausea, idiocy and moral fatigue. After a while, all that changes is the plot. Series novels have been around for a long time (especially in the crime genre), but the novels really responsible for the current craze were the Harry Potter books that appeared in the late 1990's. This series sparked two marketing explosions: the young adult series novel and the adaptation of those and later adult novels into movie franchises and novelistic t.v. series. After this came the bland and badly written Twilight novels and The Fifty Shades adult erotica. It's been off to the races ever since, with the quality of the novels and their visual transcriptions varying widely in quality.<br />
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Another incredibly popular set of novels is the 8 volume multi-genre <i>Outlander</i> series, with its current t.v. analog<i> </i>having just aired its 4th season on STARZ. With novels 1 through 6, each one was successively longer than its predecessor, from the 1st at 600 plus pages to the 6th volume weighing in at a ponderous 1100 plus pages. The final two were each in the 800 page range. In total it's about twice as long as Proust's <i>In Search of Lost Time. </i> If you binge watch the series and get a feeling for its conflicts and general meanderings, even in the shorthand of t.v. compression, it becomes predictable, the moral dilemmas contrived and the characters tiresome by the time you roll up to Season 4. I can't imagine reading five or six thousand pages of this. Apparently, no matter how little you have to say and how much endless plot you need to say it (probably over and over again), a sentimentalist wedge of the culture has an endless (and here it really borders on endless) appetite for die hard romances that endure against all odds, for the idea of going back in the past to change a tragic episode in history, for period style drama period, and (at least on this side of the pond) for fetishizing men with muscles and foreign accents. There's your formula, go forth novelists, mix and match, mish and mash the genres to this bottomless well of popular taste and no editor or agent will ever tell you your novel is too long. Too much is never enough. The desire is always for more.<br />
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<i>Outlander </i>is a good example of what happens to characters when, in effect, you make them live forever. Their natural finitude betrays them. They begin to act predictably, stupidly it seems; they are kept around so long, like children raised from cradle to college. And when they are stupid or stubborn, they begin to infuriate us like children (teenagers especially) who forget to do their chores and homework and seem impermeable to instruction. We expect children to hang around our living rooms for 18 years, but the characters in our t.v. shows?<br />
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This craving for something new that is really the same old (characters dressed in new clothing, the same conflicts moved to a different setting) is paradigmatic of t.v. and formula fiction. The late David Foster Wallace worried about the ways that commercial entertainment (t.v.) was changing what we expected from other arts, especially fiction, given t.v.'s efficiency at delivering pleasure and how little it demanded of its audience. And it has changed the kind of books that are now considered literary fiction (the upmarket world of <i>Sharp Objects </i>and <i>Big Little Lies </i>testifies to this). Serialization holds out the greatest economic incentive and greatest potential danger to art in any form. The already slick, accessible literary novel (created with t.v. and cinema in mind), can be further thinned by the prospect of being made to extend its project beyond the author's conceptual framework, or tempting the writer to distort the natural boundaries of narrative in the first place, by arranging exciting new plots to move her beloved characters around in, like pieces on an infinite chess board playing an endless chess game. If that kind of chess seems more than a little pointless, then you get closer to understanding the serial problem.<br />
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The immortality project of the serial novel is born of the reader's often-stated wish that some books would never end. A wish for a state of permanent transcendence. But the nature of transcendence and fiction makes this impossible--the former is beyond us often before we realize it, and the latter is about beginnings, middles and ends. This immortality project then is betrayed soon enough by the limitations of the characters themselves, their inability to be broken down sufficiently to be regenerated in some organic or philosophical way as would transform them into new life forms. That usually signals the end point of a novel, and would be unbearable to the stated wish of the serial in sustaining the original life forms in the first place. So the character must not break down, disintegrate in the crucible of fiction. The prized character must be protected somehow from reacting naturally to the terrors and viscissitudes of endless plot twists and heaped up crises and tragedies by acting in psychologically and morally unrealistic ways. It is all too often a problem in plot heavy stand-alone novels if I am honest, but is almost guaranteed in the series. <br />
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Serialization acts as a marketers move around the problem of death (which is the natural finitude of stories, and includes the existential fear of a ratings dive or cancellation), but one that necessarily denies death on some level and ignores the way fiction seeks a structure, like life, that contains it. The ever-after of the prolonged serial breeds boredom and contempt for the life of the story that it originally strove to immortalize.<br />
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Every writer, no matter how good, has a finite number of things to say. The best ones try not to repeat themselves too much. The most prolific ones inevitably do. When we constantly repeat ourselves, the pretending that the old wine put into new skins tastes fresh, when the search for novelty of plot or concept confines moral dilemmas into little false cubby holes of choice, a kind of dementia, an amyloid plaque of ideas, begins to dull the brains creative connections and it's ability to have complex new conversations, alternative ways of seeing things. All is about novelty of appearance and is hailed as original if it looks new. But if a thing is at heart no different than something else, or hollow at it's core despite its theoretical or visual complexity, who will be sharp enough to perceive and articulate the difference?<br />
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It is like the problem of sorting through the inundations, the wearying avalanche, of the perpetual news cycle for vital information, or the useless product sponsored articles that pretend to be news. Just look at the number of articles and daily space fillers that populate a home page. How many times have I read, 'you've been cooking potatoes wrong your whole life', or 'you're probably doing dead lifts wrong'. The intentional marketing of self-doubt with some cookie attached that makes products related to potatoes or whatever your deficiency may be pop up on your screen is all manipulation to promote consumption. Gossip and tweets are elevated to the status of news. An ego (even the President's ego) and his warped personality is not the news. Style is not the news. Yet, this is how to stay in the news, how to market ourselves and find a loyal audience. Any good agent would tell you to know your audience. Find your base. In the new lingo of entrepreneurship it is called 'finding your tribe'. Repeat serial lies and those who have an appetite for a particular kind of lie, will keep tuning in, as they will for bodice ripping romance or time travel. Some markets in America are bottomless, being deeply rooted in our past and thus a little like time travel: racism is always part of the marketplace of public policy and opinion (our most profound and lethal form of serial dementia). Even while the entertainment industry shows us an increasingly inclusive face, some of that is niche marketing aware of demographic changes as much as from progressive motives. The genuinely transformative among these will not omit the struggle required to achieve full inclusion or the institutional nature of our entrenched structural problems, such as <i>The Wire </i>did in a systematic yet organic way.<br />
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Elsewhere, the marketing is all too tribal. The dislocated rhetorical labels of political discourse: liberal, conservative, capitalism and socialism are signified fears of and loathing for the other. These are the amyloid plaque of a failing political system--misapprehensions and failed ideologies cycling for decades, as if with no collective memory or possible alternatives--only false dichotemies and white-washed histories offered again and again. And we believe it as if told for the first time. While our country decays one road and bridge at a time, while a corrupt for profit criminal justice system destroys millions of lives and keeps alive a form of human slavery, while climate change moves past the point of no return, while the imperative of transitioning to a sustainable green economy is regarded as unaffordable and unnecessary, and while the looming global crisis of human migration has frighteningly found it's only unified response in the specter of rising white nationalism. <br />
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Our democracy, controlled by a rapacious economic system, has reached late stage serial dementia: we elect new people, marketed to us as change, hope or a return to core values; they rebrand old lies as common sense, go through the rituals, the mumbo-jumbo of exceptionalist myths, market fundamentalism, chanting off key paeans to our vaunted freedoms, while every day our condition and standing in the world worsens. Those at the very top are not demented or deluded. They know exactly what they are doing. The flow of resources to the top one percent is being carefully and relentlessly directed through policy that relies on our continued state of dementia and docile assent. We the dementia patients are shut ins, isolated from each other, alone with t.v. serials, the irrelevant torrents of the daily media cycle, memes, tweets, posts and pins, paranoid chat rooms and gaming analogs of rage and warfare, starved for nourishment, deprived of proper healthcare and a decent living. Our public wealth has been shoplifted by the unseen hand, our pensions looted and horded by societies corporate caretakers, while we struggle, through the serial fog, to remember and understand what happened to us yesterday. And we are expected to recoil at words like socialism and class warfare.<br />
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Go to any mid-size American city and it is exactly like the one you left with the same store and restaurant chains everywhere, the same big banks, malls, commuter lots, grimy bus terminals, generic office parks. Serial pharmaceuticals treat the serial pathologies of a society glutted with serial consumption: diabetes, heart disease, depression and bipolar, a raft of autoimmune disorders, erectile dysfunction, Hep C and cancer. Pills and injections promoting, stopping or counteracting the effects of serial thoughts and serial behaviors. We have a serial liar in the White House, serial killers, serials about serial killers, serial monogamy, serial cheating, serial rape, season after season of bachelors and bachelorettes, survivors, Big Brother, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, a war in Afghanistan that just may end up with a longer run than <i>The Simpsons</i>. High Tech toys are doled out serially with people lining up for them. There are the digitized serial heroics of gaming. And right back around to our serialized novels--the one form, by the essence of its very name, that should resist serialization. <br />
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The argument against obsessive consumption of the serial in favor of nurturing a broader information base is a little like arguing that you can ever have too many bags of mass produced chips and cheese doodles, or for that matter, ramen noodles. Their ability to break down so easily, to satisfy so lightly, only intensifies the need for more and more frequent doses. While eating a varied and nutritious diet, takes thought, time, resources, discipline and proper digestion. It's much more work to read a book, or even an overly long article like this one, follow an extended argument, or look up words. Or being able to identify a straw man argument when you hear one, or when we are making one ourselves. Taking the time to rightly process information, knowing where to look for good information when you need it is so last century. Much easier to turn on the t.v. and binge.<br />
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<b>The Motive: </b>The serial is the commodity par excellence, potentially a never-ending profit machine.<br />
<b>The Message: </b>Don't worry, we'll make more.<br />
<b>Wish Fulfillment: </b>Possibility is endless; everything is endless; Our appetites are endless and we the people demand more.<br />
<b>Ultimate Truth: </b>We should read more. But what to read? A very wise college professor of mine always exhorted us to, "Read widely." Our increasing isolation in distinct information bubbles is a testament to the habit of only approaching media that provides a self-confirming world view. If you like conspiracy theories than it won't be long before you go from 911 was an inside job, to contrails are poison being released into the atmosphere and then to the granddaddy of them all to become a flat-earther. And that is a kind of willed detachment from reality, a sign of the schizoid distrust of everything (an information based, digitally induced mental illness, if you will). To extend the aside, let us just recommend to the flat-earther, you must not use GPS, could not trust GPS if not for global reality (as in globe-shaped reality), the fact of Magnetic North by which such navigation works. Come back to the real world. Information is how we develop a world view; increasingly, from behind a screen it is also how people experience the world. The distortions this produces are rife and proliferate 'virally' to use the vernacular. So then what information we gather and where we gather it is the critical factor in the dawn of a world where we have few shared truths and can't agree on even scientifically, verifiable facts. And our addiction to the image and our tendency to be so easily mislead by doctored versions of reality is even more problematic.<br />
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What has this to do with the serial? It has to do with habits of mind and habits of consumption, a willingness to be hypnotized by the passive, easy forms of cultural transcendence. And quite frankly, while t.v. land becomes a symbolic eternity and immortality project, we are wasting too much of the eternal now (the only time that truly exists) obsessed with non-creative illusions. Reading requires an attention, an active mind and an ability to synthesize complex ideas that the image alone cannot convey. Even in acknowledging that t.v. and cinema may be better suited to convey the ineffable, in that the medium does not rely on language, such moments are in rare evidence compared with the cliches it invokes to arouse us. As much as visual information is the present and future of how we understand the world and each other, and if there were no books, we'd be all the more liable for how we choose to open ourselves up or close ourselves off to the vast resources within our easy reach. The real meaning of serial dementia is the ways in which we are exploring ever narrower pathways and choosing ideologies as source rather than accuracy and knowledge, and, beyond this, we are all too specialized in our interests, too obsessive and demonic in our singular directions. There are fewer people today who know a little about a lot of things than there are people who know a lot about one or two things. <br />
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<b>Conclusion: </b>The most interesting common thread in this survey of the television landscape are the major trending heroic subjects: the supernatural monster/freak, the superhero, the criminal (especially the criminal genius) and the anti-hero. What they all have in common is the way in which they suspend either natural or moral laws and conventions (the average man who plays by the rules, it seems, will not do in our present state). Only in the crime genre is the cultural outsider the antagonist, and yet the anti-hero figure is the bridge between the criminal who is punished and the one who is granted the complex treatment of the protagonist, the one whose entire life we are allowed to glimpse in mitigation of his crimes--the Dexter Morgans, Al Swearengens, Tony Sopranos and Ray Donovans. It is a generous idea and art strives to be generous. For it is a place where we glimpse the world remade, where briefly there is clarity and we are able to transcend our human powerlessness, even if it is a transcendent sorrow for the doomed.<br />
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There are global problems, political problems and the existential problems we all have. Serial dementia is a trance we live in to cope with it. An illusion, like the illusion that natural resources, clean water, bees and food, are unlimited and endless, as ready for streaming as Netflix. An illusion that there will always be more. Think of the rage unleashed on poor George R.R. Martin when he dared take over five years to complete his novel. It's what happens when people wake up to a world of no more. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion.<br />
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<br />John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-65716869348837796512019-02-21T07:09:00.001-08:002020-02-14T09:15:05.091-08:00If My Shopping Cart had a Rear View Mirror: Looking Back at McCarthy's The Road<br />
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Cormac McCarthy is often an incomparable stylist with one of the best eyes for realism in some time--his original language, imagery and depiction of landscape are spectacular--but if character is the life-blood of fiction, it is surprising that he is hailed consistently as one of our greatest living writers. He is more interested in stylizing the way people talk than apprehending the strangeness of the human heart. Instead, he excels at creating mythic
characters. They posture in archetypes, evoking the strong silent types and mustachioed villains of western frontier legend, or Gothic grotesques and rebellious southern sons, while some of the women speak as if reciting lines in a Sophoclean tragedy (the wife in
The Road before she kills herself). Here is just some of her parting speech:<br />
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"The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart."<br />
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Sometimes his characters succeed in the only
way a character needs to--through the essence of being, the impression they make on us. Yet, somebody like John Grady Cole, who occupies the core
of the McCarthy canon, is dull and callow when it comes to love,
falling for the wrong women in such an adolescent way that you
question if love, for McCarthy, is just another stubborn stand to make
against evil. He doesn't impart the same intensity and detail to relationships that he lavishes on the process of building a lean-to, or the colors in a Western sky.
As a result, it's less than convincing when Cole risks everything for his high-born Mexican girl or the
prostitute whom he would redeem against all odds and common sense. If McCarthy cared about relationships or people that much (and he's too good a writer not to succeed at what he puts his mind and eye to), he could move beyond mere fatalism and
macho-stubbornness as the only alternatives in the face of grim reality. In <i>The Road</i>, McCarthy succeeds in the father and son domain. A father himself for the first time, McCarthy may well have been in the swoon of tender feelings. Here is a relationship that really matters to him. The father passes on his moral rules to his son and the boy for his part is there to hold the father to them. This singular focus overrides enough of McCarthy's mythologizing ways to keep things real. For the most part. Yet even in their touching vulnerability and desperate interdependence, they must serve the master of McCarthy's myth of good and evil. The dialogue suffers because of this to the point of being a droll parody of itself by the end of the novel. They never go off script, or exhibit the waywardness in word or deed that people do no matter the exigencies of their circumstance. And what parent would ever say, 'My
job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God"? It's more like something a stern-faced nun would tell a young novitiate, and as comforting to a scared 10-year old as a cold stethoscope ranging under a thin hospital johnny.<br />
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McCarthy's sincerity (a kind of blinkered authority) makes it possible for him to get away with pompous and
theodician utterances like this from his characters. The man is not saying this for the child's benefit, of course, but for ours. One example that is more believable, and describes a ritual process characteristic of many ancient religious traditions is the refrain repeated by the man and boy: we carry the fire. In such traditions only through participating in specially designed rituals and entering them with a certain mental discipline was it possible to experience the reality of God or the mystery of being. Consciously or not, McCarthy is showing us a father and son creating their own religion in the face of extinction. The ritual chant, along with the literal fires (the gathering of wood, the lighting, stoking and reviving of fire that is described repeatedly), keeps them psychologically and physically going. And when the man tells old Ely, What if I said he's a god?, speaking of the boy, we hear the gears of McCarthy's theodicy machine rolling out blocks of divine goodness on a rhetorical conveyor belt. The father and son theme has noisy Christian overtones of blood atonement to begin with--McCarthy's go to means of conflict resolution. But is there any substance to it? Any point in it?<br />
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The father has bet all on the survival of his son in a dead world with no future, and the boy has put all his trust in the ethic of a father who will die and abandon him to that void of a world. What sense are we to make of their new, old-time religion? To what end does the man say of the boy, If he is not the word of God then God never spoke? Finally, what has their ritual suffering, their privation, the mortal danger, freezing cold and malnourishment taught them of God? It has not caused the man to examine the value of survival and it has not prepared him to do what he must: kill his own son if the circumstance arose (as he has promised), so as not to leave him alone in the world to be raped, murdered and cannibalized. The man says they were always lucky and he thinks the boy will be lucky too and urges him to go out on the road. Is that to say, finally, their god is good fortune? Survival is mere luck? If it feels like a betrayal, it is because not only has the man failed to keep his promise to the boy but also bestows, 'You'll be lucky' on him as a pathetic benediction. He can't with any certainty know that. It's what makes their parting so affecting. The son says take me with you, but in the end the man leaves fate or cruel strangers to do what he cannot bring himself to do. The separation of father and son echos the Biblical account of the crucifixion--My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?--and hints at some Biblical allegory riding on that so-called "secular wind" after all. Only the man cannot sacrifice the son, as God sacrifices Christ. Nevertheless, there is a resurrection of sorts for the doomed boy. He gets lucky and finds some good guys who have been watching with concern from afar and come back for him. McCarthy lets the man and us off the hook. If the reader wants to take the penultimate paragraph at face value (read hope)--that the breath of God is passed on from man to man and that torch has now been passed on to the boy--the disclaimer in the final paragraph "Not to be put right again" shouldn't be ignored.<br />
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It's as if after having run his characters through an unimaginable gauntlet of suffering and horrors, he didn't have the stomach to show us what really happens to the boy. And the final paragraph, with its shifting mumbo-jumbo in the omniscient point of view about trout running in clear streams and the earth humming mysteries is a kind of lyrical cop-out that airbrushes hard facts.<br />
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In many ways, <i>The Road</i> is the apotheosis of all that McCarthy is as a
novelist and there is greatness in it. Even so, it is a world
whittled down to the three things he loves to write about and
describe most: his fetish for painting tableaus of horrific violence and
carnage, the rudiments and mechanics of masculine tinkering and outdoor survival
(the visage of primal humanity), and most importantly his majesterial theme
and variations on landscape (especially as signified moral condition,
metaphysical judgment or a vague and poorly developed philosophic).
Book after book, that is the sum and substance of McCarthy. <i>The Road., </i>
in a strange way, amounts to a wishing away of all the things that do not interest him. And in that simple distillation two rules to live and die by emerge: Don't give up and, no matter what, do not prey upon your fellow human beings. The moral lessons in his books are direct and can often be summed up in a single sentence. <br />
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survivalist's kind of writer: macho, fatalistic and armed to kill. He envisions life at the level of necessity. Inevitably, he had to create a novel purely about survival. The only things that
really matter in <i>The Road</i> are shoes, food and fire. And from his chair, at a
typewriter (if he still uses one) McCarthy can inflict the misery of
post-apocalyptic survival on his poor father and son, while he revels in
page after page of breathtaking description on
the theme of the ruined world that is his over-described and under-analyzed subject. What else is
there for the man to do in a dead world abandoned by God? He might explore interior landscapes more fully and some of the philosophical questions that are inevitably raised by the specter of apocalypse. So while his rendering of survival on a dead planet is vividly and fiercely imagined, he has not revealed anything surprising about humanity, nothing we haven't come to expect in a McCarthy novel. The death and cruelty he describes does not exceed that of the Crusades,
The Holocaust, the nightmare of American slavery or the barbaric spectacle of Jim Crow lynchings . Human
trafficking and sex slavery are an open secret of the global tourist economy and in the news every day. Instances of cannibalism have occurred in well documented survival scenarios of our time. So if human beings will act this way in the best of times and the worst
of times, is there nothing more to write than, "there are good guys and
bad guys" for the world's epitaph? As James Wood concluded about McCarthy's novel, "The question of endings in an apocalypse must be philosophical as well as merely emotional, even in a novel."<br />
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The human choices in <i>The Road</i> are as stark as the world he imagines, but they are more challenging as
metaphors than they are in reality. It is more complicated, surely, as participants at some level in contemporary capitalist society to know exactly if our own behaviors could be considered a form of preying upon our fellow human beings, than in <i>The Road</i> where if you are eating other people for food and killing them for their meager possessions, you are one of the bad guys. Of course, the cannibal might say that he is not a bad guy, if given a voice, just more committed to survival than McCarthy's hero. In <i>The Road</i> the quality of life
is so wretched, the planet so dead, the loneliness so deep, that it is not
such a difficult moral choice whether to starve to death or kill and
eat your fellow humans. One is not essentially more difficult or less desirable than the other. In fact, one of the man's meditations might have been whether he'd subjected his boy to more torment in keeping him alive and holding out an empty hope, than putting a bullet in his head while he slept. If he'd thought about the world in those terms, he probably could have worked up the courage. This realization is implied, but would be lethal to the man's survival project and the book's if it were given full voice. The character of old Ely makes this suggestion, and his apparent indifference makes his survival on the road so remarkable he might as well be an angelic apparition as a real man--a voice worth heeding. While he is mocked by the man for his understated platitude "in times like these" (in fact time has stopped), we understand the real rub for the man is the nihilism on display when Ely says it will be better when everybody is gone.<br />
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The man can't accept this. To consider it strikes hard against the ego of being, and it is well to wonder<i> in times like these</i> whether <i>The Road</i> is a great novel of the human spirit or another tough guy novel about the stubbornness of the human ego, and whether McCarthy considered the difference. Emily St. John Mandel contemplates a post-humanist planet in her own post-apocalyptic <i>Station Eleven. </i>After the loss is absorbed, some 20 years hence, there is a sense that without most of us, and the technology that brought much evil along with good, the world has a chance to begin again. The novel suggests, to our surprise and relief, that we are not that important in the greater scheme of things and the planet just might get along better without us, or at least, with a lot fewer of us.<br />
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The temporal gulf between McCarthy's other novels and the future vision of <i>The Road </i>reminds us that with the exception of <i>No Country for Old Men </i>set in 1980 (yet full of enough wild west style shoot-outs to feel anachronistic), none of his novels are set in the time in which McCarthy has lived most of his adult, writer's life. The avoidance of modernity--his preference for a world of white male heroes on horseback, where women are plot accessories and need saving, where men tinker and fix things, break wild horses, ride to the point of exhaustion, stitch up their own wounds without anesthetic and always, always fight the bad guys--this absence, his antique vision, is the most indelible feature of McCarthy's work. There is a sense in which McCarthy has to be the supreme realist, because behind the hard existential facts of poverty in rural Tennessee, or the borderlands of the Southwest, or the scablands of the Apocalypse hides a nostalgia for simplicity, a running fantasy of some pure lost form of masculinity that cannot coexist with farm subsidies, border walls, feminism, political protests and mass transit, cannot cast its spell with the roar of jet engines and contrails marring the religious fresco of a natural sky. Even <i>The Road</i>'s stark world of devastation belongs to his sacred pantheon of rendered landscapes, is lyrical rather than dissonant, and avoids an essential confrontation with modern life. So that we never learn if we perished at our own hand, or a comet hurled by a God last so disgusted by Cretaceous dinosaurs, or if we were just unlucky.<br />
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John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-30101053467915144442019-02-04T10:13:00.000-08:002019-02-04T10:14:26.471-08:00Just SuperThe Superbowl (LIII) proved once again to be a bloated, overhyped commercial for commercials, US military might, crass consumerism, bad half-time entertainment and Tom Brady worship. When you consider that the LA Rams should never have been there, and that an experienced QB like Drew Brees would never have floundered like Jared Goff under the intense pressure, we have to think about that inexplicable "No Call" that prevented the Saints from, at least, an easy winning field goal. The team the Patriots were almost certain to beat was the one that made it to the show.<br />
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I'm not a big conspiracy guy, but you know that Trump and Kraft are very tight. The president already showed a willingness to insert himself into the Col Kaepernick protest, setting up a straw man about disrespecting the National Anthem, when the original protest was about police brutality. The NFL bought into the fake controversy, and since it has come down hard against Kaepernick and anyone who thinks of taking a knee, is it any surprise that the league likes a narrative steeped in Nationalism and supportive of dynasty, wherein the Patriots become the symbolic champions of American supremacy and exceptionalist myths in the culture? I think the league is very happy with the outcome and the message it sends. The NFL (in it's response to Kaepernick, the social justice issue behind it, and it's well-publicized off-field problem with violence) is right in step with the retrograde message of the Trump administration in it's responses to immigration, policing, violence against women, and civil rights (especially those affecting people of color). Thus the season ends with the perfect commercial for the status quo. The dynasty rolls on. The majority of the country isn't really happy about either of those recent triumphs, but for the most part the country has yet to come to grips with the minority rule situation that's taken hold. Did someone high up decide the Rams were a better opponent to ensure that the dynastic symbolism remained enshrined for another year? It doesn't take much in a tight game to sway things. The Patriots could have beaten the Saints, sure, but a more experienced QB and an offensive coaching staff experienced and smart enough to anticipate, or at least adjust, to Belicheck's defensive strategy would have gone a long way toward making that outcome a lot more uncertain.<br />
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<br />John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-30853607715303908652018-05-03T11:23:00.001-07:002018-05-03T18:19:06.202-07:00Echinaceas: A Little Over the Top<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yes,
it was an exciting day in the annals of catalogue plant porn when the Big Sky Echinaceas came out. Oh, those soft yellows and
oranges, and what a breakthrough for lovers of the stalwart pinky purple Coneflower, who were longing to spice things up in their horticultural bedrooms. Then we brought these
newcomers breathlessly to our gardens and found out very quickly that they
didn’t last. Not here in the north, anyway. Now everybody and
their plant snipping brother is producing new and wilder shades in every
flowering form and configuration possible. Double Deckers, pom poms with
short petals, pom poms with long petals, greens, screaming reds, an
impossible array of tropical looking orange and yellow shades with tropical
sounding names like Tiki Torch, Aloha, Leilani, Pina Colada and Hot papaya, and, of
course, dwarf container sized plants with cutsy names too (just what a
prairie plant was meant for, right?). They have, and so have we all its
seems, become intoxicated with the equatorial fever of our garish new Coneflowers. They would surely look at home in the tropics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
problem is not just a matter of their shaggy tropical looks (in fact
the absence of actual cones on many of these so-called Coneflowers), but of the
persistent issue of garden toughness. Even the rugged sounding Cheyenne
Spirit series (available from seed as well as plants) have proven to be weak
growers and better used as annual fillers than reliably hardy garden plants.
They have certainly lost some of their prairie toughness along the way. I
have tried both nursery bought plants and seed grown Cheyenne Spirit, not to
mention the Big Skys. Most disappeared or never developed into full
grown plants, and few have persisted into their 3rd year in the
garden. This year I’m going to be trying out a compact but thankfully not
miniature new orange Coneflower called Adobe Orange. Unlike the Big Sky’s
developed in the Southeastern US, these have been trialed in Michigan and are
rated Zone 4 hardy. We shall see. (Update: We shall not see. Walters Gardens reports crop failure in 2018). The good thing about these (in theory, see above) is
that they maintain an old-fashioned Echinacea look. They have a prominent
cone and some petals that point downward (God forbid we grow anything so
primitive and unstylish in our gardens these days).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Which
brings me to a rant about the series of mop-head coneless Coneflowers that look
like little more than bad dye jobs on top of bad hair days. The ones with
the mops and the long widely spaced petals look like a sad gappy daisy with a
pom pom Zinnia or Mum dropped on top of it. Please just grow Zinnias or
Mums. They still come in a wider range of colors and will probably last
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There’s
always an exception. I have seen one very strong group of the Double
Decker Echinaceas returning in a local garden, but then
wouldn’t you know that the very ugliest and earliest purveyor of bad hair is
the only one that seems to survive here. It of course is in the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
fact remains, while our nurseries are full of these bold new Coneflowers our
gardens are not, which is one of the best proofs that these plants are little
more than an impulse buying scam designed to part you with your hard earned
money. Plant porn indeed since in real life they are never as good as in the glossy pictures. And have you noticed how many of the oranges fade to an anemic,
grubby pink after about a week. The greens turn pink and the oranges turn
pink and the reds fade like dollar store hummingbird feeders after one season in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here’s
an idea. You’d think having taken pink and yellow and white (the original
Echinacea colors) and bred them into such a wide array of bold reds and oranges and so many nuanced pastels,
that they’d be able to get the original pinky/purple Echinacea to a true
purple. That is what I am waiting for. That is the evolution that
would make the most spectacular of coneflowers, because it would
preserve that pleasurable shock of contrast between the pink and
orange that made Echinacea purpurea so irresistible in the first place, but
turn it into a delicious complimentary color combination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On our present course, we may lose our appreciation for what made the Coneflower so unique--it’s internal color contrast and, increasingly, the cones
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<span style="font-size: large;">Torville
and Dean’s iconic, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Bolero</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">,
performed at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, fomented a revolution in Ice
Dancing, the most tradition-bound of skating’s competitive
disciplines, and helped propel figure skating to a decade of
unprecedented worldwide popularity, particularly in the United
States. That popularity gave rise to a growing number of televised
professional championships and ultimately to an expansion of the
ISU’s traditional skating season into the current ISU Grand Prix
season. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While
the celebrated British ice dancers immediately left the amateur ranks
following their gold medal performance and dominated the pro circuit
as an artistic force for the next decade, it was Christopher Dean’s
role as mentor and choreographer to the brother and sister ice dance
team of Paul and Isabel Duchesnay that kept the flame of Bolero alive
in the ballroom world of ice dancing. The tide turned in 1990 when
the Duchesnays won the Free Dance at the World Championships in
Halifax. It didn’t matter that they had finished second to the
Soviet dancers Klimova and Ponomarenko. The top Soviet pair’s
intricate dance to a medley from My Fair Lady looked provincial and
quaint, an anachronism compared with the Duchesnays “Missing”
routine, with its raw energy, unusual lifts and moving tableau of
unique positions. By 1991, all of the top dance pairs, including the
top two Soviet teams had joined the revolution and brought out
programs in the so-called ‘avant garde’ style, with Klimova and
Ponomarenko splitting with longtime coach Natalia Dubova over the
dramatic change in artistic direction. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
apex of the ice dance revolution came almost as suddenly as it had
arrived with the newly converted Klimova and Ponomerenko’s
transcendant </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Man and A Woman’ </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">program
at the 1992 Albertville Olympics. Along with Paul Wylie’s two
classic programs and Mishkutennok and Dmitriev’s moving</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
Liebestraum</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> at the same games, it could be
argued that figure skating as a whole had reached a zenith in terms
of its popularity and overall quality at Albertville. The rise in
popularity would continue in the shortened two year run-up to
Lillehammer, when the summer and winter Olympics switched to
alternate years. Once more, figure skating was the crown jewel of
what would be a very memorable winter games. Even the shadow of the
Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding controversy only seemed to enhance the
mystique and glamor of figure skating. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Between
Sarajevo and Lillehammer a generation of enormously popular and
talented skaters and a number of vaunted rivalries were allowed to
continue with the rise of professional championships. You had
Rosalyn Sumners vs Katarina Witt, the battling Brians (Boitano and
Orser), as well as Browning vs Petrenko, Klimova/Ponomarkenko vs the
Duchesnays, and of course the ever-popular Torvill and Dean and the
darlings of pairs skating, Gordieva and Grinkov. Before this era,
and the arrival of cable t.v. sports, figure skating was something
you got to see once or twice a season on network t.v. The U.S.
Nationals and the Worlds, and every four years during the Olympics.
Suddenly, figure skating was everywhere including prime time
broadcasts of the new glitzy team competitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While
the women’s final in Lillehammer had ratings with Superbowl
numbers, this wider audience of the mid-late 90’s soon became
disenchanted with the favoritism of judging and a system of scoring
they didn’t understand. It has to be said, however, that these
newcomers to figure skating fandom lacked some basic knowledge of the
sport, say the difference between edge and toe jumps, or a camel and
a spiral, or that attitude in a layback spin is the proper position
of the free leg and not a sassy facial expression. Thus, they were
focused more on what grabbed them viscerally. The kind of music and
moves they found pleasing. So a kind of subjective imprecision was
equally at work in what was popular with an audience. You could not
expect judges to view Elvis Stojko’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dragon</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">
program as an artistic equal to something like Rudy Galindo’s
instant classic </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Swan Lake</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">,
and you could not blame the lay audience for questioning why Alexei
Urmanov was given the gold over Stojko at Lillehammer. When I review
both performances, I’m reminded that skating had become little more
than a triple jump competition by the 1990’s, because neither of
these men were as good pure skaters as either Paul Wylie or Rudy
Galindo, two skaters of that era who were never considered in the
same league as the big jumpers. It is appalling to see the empty
choreographic space and telegraphed jumps you see in Stojko’s
program, and the way he morphed into a hockey player as he raced
around the ice rink between jumping passes. Even his fast footwork
lacks technical refinement. And for a man so proud of his martial
arts prowess, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dragon</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">
does not seriously attempt choreography that looks anything like a
tribute to Bruce Lee. It’s opportunistic and lazy. Everywhere the
rock and roll Elvis is present. Whatever Urmanov’s infelicities and
flaws--the slow spins, stiff posture and overly mannered
quality—Stojko’s inattention to good basic skating strokes,
position, line and choreographic intent left the judges little
choice. I remember rooting for Urmanov only because I could not
stomach the elevation of what amounted to a thumbing of the nose at
what skating was all about—line, edge, precision and the
integration of a total technique into a coherent aesthetic. He
never conceded to the stylistic superiority of the pointed toe or
efficient crossovers, and eschewed anything he considered as the
sissified aspects of the sport. Don’t get me wrong, he could spin
and jump and he had speed, but because he eschewed many elements of
good skating technique as embarrassingly beneath his masculine
aesthetic, the judges basically told him, ‘Same to you, buddy.’ </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Professional
championships, on the other hand, were the perfect place for people
pleasing performances like Stojko's. Lots of gimmicks, camp,
props and kitsch and plenty of rock n’ roll standards blazoned
melodramatically through broad gestural choreography. These
performances lost my interest pretty quickly, except for a handful of
memorable ones, like Boitano’s darkly moving </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Music
of the Night, </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">because many of them were
technically watered down, with fewer difficult jumps, less demanding
footwork and spins, especially in the so-called artistic programs.
If amateur skating of the 80’s and 90’s had become increasingly
focused on jumps, you could say that the professional
championships were far less demanding of
overall technique, but just as respectful of a skater’s reputation and
popularity and maybe even less accountable as to the criteria used in
judging. It was perhaps the only instance I’m aware of where the
standard for professionals in a sport was less rigorous and inferior
to their amateur counterparts. This was mainly due to the primacy of
entertainment here over true competition, a part of which was
certainly a desire on the part of competitors to lighten the demands
of an Olympic style training regime. Rosalyn Sumners stopped
including triple jumps in her routines as a professional. Viktor
Petrenko was a prime example of what happened to the sport as a
whole. After a time in the professional ranks he'd begun to lose his
hold on the audience. When it became noticeable that audiences
weren't much moved by what he was doing on ice, he was forced to
self-examine. What he concluded was that he'd spent too much time
winking, flirting and hamming and not enough focused on actual
skating, whereas, Paul Wylie, the man he'd beaten out for gold in
Albertville, with his continued emphasis on complete skating and
well-choreographed programs had supplanted him in the audience's
affections. I recall hearing this discussed on one of those
professional championnships in the middle 90's. You see, when it
came down to it, the rigorous demands of amateur skating and the
tension created by those more demanding competitions, had never been
duplicated in the world of professional skating. Except for the very
best artists in the sport, the overall product had a cheapened and
meretricious feeling to it.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I
believe this underlying lack of rigor, eventual overexposure and the
judging scandal at the Salt Lake Games in 2002, contributed to figure
skating's decline in popularity over the next decade and a half,
right up to the present. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The new
judging system created in response to the Salt Lake scandal, which
was supposed to create an accountable basis for scoring, actually may
have exacerbated the problems facing figure skating’s integrity as
a sport. First, when the new scoring system made the judging
anonymous, it allowed the problem of bias, and the possibility of
inside deal-making between judges, to go underground, but it also
created a component score that was as nebulous as the former
'artistic impression' and later named 'composition and style' score,
but was equally used as the subjective element where favored skaters
could be elevated by reputation if their technical skating faltered.
More irksome yet, while there are very specific point totals for
jumps, spins and footwork with levels of difficulty and grade of
execution enhancing scores and specific deductions for falls and
incomplete elements (and you can watch them tallied now right before
your eyes after each element), there has never been a single
explanation or demonstration of how the component score is derived
from a skating performance. Or on what basis judges could project a
component score pre-performance, as was done in comparing the
programs of Medvedeva and Zagitova in Pyeongchang. Loosely it is
based on the program's overall composition and balance, and within
that the choreographic intent as it relates both to style and quality
of technical and field moves in the service of a musical
interpretation, and some important “intangibles” like the overall
speed and energy of a performance and the impact it makes as a whole.
But, with all the emphasis on picking up technical points there is a
hectic and rushed, or crammed, feeling to today's programs, a busy
and flailing quality that ignores the impact of holding out a move
like an Ina Bauer, a Spread Eagle or Spiral all the way across the
ice, or even holding a layback spin position with the correct
attitude. A bit like that last sentence. In spins alone, the
awarding of points for position changes has made the high-impact
single position spin go virtually extinct. Interesting and difficult
choreography like Russian Splits, Butterflies and Death Drops have
all but disappeared from the repertoire, as have satisfying finishers
like a good blurred scratch spin. After all, skaters have to
conserve their energy for the big jump passes, and skaters just don't
spend as much time on spinning. They take a tremendous amount of
energy, are quite difficult to do well and don't garner that many
points. But the biggest loser in this race for points is
choreography and musical interpretation, which I'll address in some
detail later on.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Another
major change, allowing amateurs compensation for placing in ISU Grand
Prix events, including the World Championships, has meant the
creation of a rather long season of international events from
September to March. While this has no doubt kept top skaters in the
“amateur” ranks long enough to appear in an Olympics or two, it
has also created program fatigue. By the time the Worlds roll around
in March, you (and don't forget the judges) could possibly have seen
the same skating routine four or five times. Let's just say that in
today's skating world there are few programs that have enough
subtlety in musical selection and depth in choreographic beauty to
maintain interest over four or five viewings. When a performer
should be unveiling a new program at the Olympics, or at least having
done it only once before, say at Europeans or Nationals, many of
today's performers are using two year old programs. You don't want
the judges or the audience taking your performance for granted or
feeling they've already seen it, especially at premiere events like
Worlds or the Olympics. It simply will not have the impact of a new
program. While there is no doubt a cost consideration in having a
new program choreographed every year, the end effect of increased
repetition is boredom for the audience.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">On the
subject of musicality, I couldn't help bringing forward the example
of Paul Wylie's excellent </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>La Valse </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">short
program from Albertville. This was a fine program to view the first
time through, but admittedly Ravel's sophisticated waltz parody does
not grab you immediately with it's cool Impressionist harmonic mode.
However, having recorded it and watched it again later and as the
music became more familiar and attractive to me, I began to feel this
performance come alive even more the second time, so much so that I
immediately encored it on my old VCR (this was 1992 after all). I
was out of my seat at home applauding and electrified. It is still
just as thrilling. The excellence of Wylie's movements, his rounded
sweeping gestures and deep edges so perfectly captured the essence of
this piece's fluid elegance that his interpretation had won me over
to the music and the two things are now inseparable in my mind.
He is the music. Today's performers put the cart before the horse, selecting music
that is supposed to win you over to the performance, as if artistic
merit were settled by the choice of music. Watch Wylie's performance
and see for yourself what makes figure skating an art form:</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTYV4e8oA4"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTYV4e8oA4</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">One of
the other recent rule changes that has transformed the world of ISU
competitions is the ability to use vocal music. This more than
anything has radically altered the look and feeling of figure skating
today, and overall not for the better. While performers and
audiences may find a resonance with programs skated to Cold Play,
Beyonce, or Ed Sheeran, not to mention old standards and show tunes,
no matter what the musical genre, you must consider whether a piece
of music has a suitable rhythm to capture choreography and whether
there is any drama, forward movement or sense of climax, such as
might create a high impact performance. Pop songs, unlike Swan Lake,
are not created with choreography in mind, and so must be chosen with
care lest they fall flat. That is one reason why skaters return to
Swan Lake again and again. It never fails to enhance the drama of a
solid skating effort. I have complained for years about the
continued overuse of the same old classical numbers like Carmen, Swan
Lake, Malaguena and Scheherazade (for good measure throw in Minkus'
Don Quixote, Rossini and Offenbach overtures, and sadly, Nessun Dorma
by Puccini). These have over the years become cliches. Swan Lake
may be the only exception to the rule as from time to time it
transcends cliché and inspires some of skating's freshest and most
exciting moments, especially when some of its lesser known music is
used. Some performances, like the Canadian pair Duhamel and
Radford's skate to Adele's “Hometown Glory” mined true emotion
from a contemporary song, but then it has a driving piano rhythm and
builds to a soaring, melancholy climax. If you are going to feature
pop music you have to be as selective and wise as when choosing from
the classical repertoire. Unfortunately, there was little wisdom, or
foresight on display in the musical selections at Pyeonchang. It was
simply the most stultifying display of unskatable, uninspired mood
music I have ever seen. Pop ballads with no pulse and new age
instrumental numbers with no dynamic contrast, climax or
choreographically friendly episodes made for a busy wallpaper pattern
of jumps, spins and field moves pasted randomly over background
music. And in the absence of music capable of supporting intricate
choreographic patterns and sharp rhythmic movements, melodramatic
facial expressions and sentimental gestures, as well as an endless,
almost frantic, migration of meaningless flapping arms across the ice
was offered in its place. Yet, while audiences may love these so
called adventurous musical shifts away from the classical tradition,
as extolled in a well-meaning, but not-so-musically-informed Sports
Illustrated article,
</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/13/winter-olympics-figure-skating-songs-pyeongchang-2018"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/13/winter-olympics-figure-skating-songs-pyeongchang-2018</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">
, why is it that skating's popularity continues to decline and the
programs in the main are so unsatisfying? The problem is as much
theoretical as it is a matter of musical taste and artistic judgment.
</span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">One
question that hovers over the past and future of figure skating is
whether its art is better achieved as a form of dance or as a form of
theater. As dance, its emotion should come from the conjunction of
music and movement. The performer creates a presence, through a
distinctive style of movement, posture and technique, representing
the character or sound world of the music and absorbing the audience
into that world in an unselfconscious way. As theater, emotion might
well be transmitted by broad gestures and facial expression that
corresponds more literally with the words of a pop song or a
situation related to the theme of the music (as you saw in
Medvedeva's emotive <i>Anna Karenina</i> program at Pyeongchang, complete
with train whistle), and the choreographic connection to these
theatrical elements tends to be more closely related to upper body
gesture and facial expression than a pure synthesis of music and
technique. The performer projects a personality (their own in the
case of the late, Christopher Bowman) or character and attempts
through a highly stylized choreography to express this character
throughout the program. There are performances that combine elements
of both (a degree of mixing is actually pretty common), but by and
large, every figure skating performance falls into one or the other
of these general modes of expression: dance or theater. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
effect of what we will call the introverted, or what could be called
the objective interpretation, is that when all goes well and there
are no distracting mistakes and breaks in form the audience may well
become transported deeply into the world of the music, riding along
on the momentum as if they'd hitched a ride on a skate blade and they
themselves are now part of the performance. This happens because the
performer rather than drawing attention to themselves, draws the
audience into the interior world of the music. Great examples of this
introverted style at it's best are the great Paul Wylie (see La Valse
above), Janet Lynn, Torville and Dean, avant garde Klimova and Ponomarenko, late
amateur Angela Nikodinov (when she wasn't overcome by nerves),
Rosalyn Sumners, Michelle Kwan, Brian Boitano, increasingly in his
professional career, Jeffrey Buttle, and Mishkutenok and Dmitriev.
The latter's moving</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i> Liebestraum</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">
at the 1991 Worlds was in my opinion the greatest pairs program ever
skated. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9j0jrUADG0"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9j0jrUADG0</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">There
is a cool unsentimental calm in Mishkutenok and a very romantic
passion in Dmitriev, the effect of which creates a compelling tension
that belies their tight unison and the close contact they maintain
throughout the performance. They do something in that program that is
seldom seen in skating. After all of their difficult moves are
completed and the music has already reached it's climax, they hold
the audience spellbound in the quiet moments of the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Liebestraum</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">'s
coda. The poignancy of the final 30 seconds almost knocks you over,
beginning with two held poses-- one with Natalia in a cantilevered
full back bend, and Artur behind her in an outside spread eagle, which then transitions to a forward cantilever, with Natalia bent over
like a rag doll and Artur in a spiral guiding her. At the end of the
spiral he releases her with a gentle push at the moment of a chilling chord change, as if surrendering his
dream of love. The movement is so subtle the wrong camera angle
misses it, but this sublime moment of surrender still produces
shivers almost 30 years later. In the final moments of consolation,
she returns to him and they complete the most beautiful death spiral
sequence ever choreographed. There is such awareness of the
potential for choreographic impact, meaningful movement and emotional
nuance in every moment of this performance it is beyond compare. There is
the 1991 </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Liebestraum</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">
and then there is everything else that is merely pretty, clean and
technically impressive in pairs skating.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This
introverted or objective style is in sympathy with the mode of the
best in the arts, because it takes a body of good skating technique
(essentially athletic skill) and a host of appropriate field moves
and sensitive choreography and connects them in a unified musical
vision that's sum is essentially artistic. That is, it has something
to say about the human spirit, which fittingly for a non-verbal
performing art, is often a sublime aesthetic feeling that defies
words altogether. But it does so without self-conscious plea to the
audience, or without recourse to forced or faked emotion (that is to
say, without sentimentality).</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This
brings us to the extroverted, or, what we might also call, the
subjective style. In using theatrics like illustrative (rather than
abstract) gestures, stylized choreography and facial expressions, it
takes on the subjective viewpoint of a personality or character and
projects that to the audience. In the most overt examples, this
projection of emotion may not be related to skating technique and how
it is integrated into a unified musical interpretation. This seems
inferior on its face for a couple of reasons. For one, facial
expression is a form of acting, not skating. Second, the projected
emotion is in a sense forced on the audience, because it is made
explicit what the performer wants the audience to feel, and because
moreover it has not been earned through the hard work of matching
technical and field moves to their best musical advantage, and doing
so in a style that creates a convincing and organic connection to
that music. Neither choosing an emotional piece of music, nor making
emotional faces means you have made that connection with the music or
the audience. There is nothing easier than that. To rely on this is
a form of artistic cheating. So while the extroverted style that
relies heavily on facial expression and broad illustrative gestures
(Chaplinesque shrugs, hands on the heart to express love, stylistic
motifs that are a little too on the nose, like matador bull-fighting
moves with Spanish flavored music), while it goes for a meaning and connection
to the music that is easily understood by the audience, it is
essentially sentimental. That is to say, it is formulaic and tries
to call from the audience an expected emotion or recognition, usually
one that is quite obvious or trite. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">A prime example of this sentimentality was in the
opening moments of the Canadian pair, Kirsten Moore Tower and Michael
Marinaro's long program at Pyeongchang. Moore Tower dramatically
clutched her chest and heaved in a way that made me wonder if she had
indigestion, was having a heart attack or was about to vomit on ice
from a case of nerves. This is one of the problems with overacting
or really bad acting; it tends to be misread or be seen as
unintentionally comical. Worse yet was the attempt to claim some
emotional power before they'd even cut an edge in the ice. (Their
Olympic performance is viewable at Olympics.com; as the first of the
final 16 pairs in the long program; this is the same program skated
at Canadian Nationals with most of the overacting cut out by the
close-up views)</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gVdZ1ikM4"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gVdZ1ikM4</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
program itself was unpretentious and well-done (the bit of bad acting
a superfluous distraction after all), except that it was set to
exactly the kind of warm and pulseless instrumental music that was so
commonplace in these skating competitions. There was one little step
sequence near the end that was amenable to choreography, but it only
served as contrast to what was missing from the rest of the program
and an example of how music in figure skating is becoming merely
ambient, rather than dramatic. The fluid, legato strains of the
music held so few dynamic cues that any one of their jumps, throws
and lifts could have come anywhere in the program and it would have
made absolutely no difference. What then do component elements mean,
that is, the idea of structure and balance, when there is no apparent
design, musical or otherwise, behind the presentation of elements?
What then does musical interpretation mean?</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I
mentioned Medvedeva's <i>Anna Karenina</i> performance before. It fit into
the category of acted emotion, rather than skated emotion. It's not
that she doesn't have style and elegance, but she belongs to that ilk
of point grabbers who have sacrificed choreographic impact and the
power of simplicity, for hectic constant motion and change of
position. She and Zagitova both cluster their jumps at the end of
the program for maximum points (Zagitova is far worse), but in doing
so create artistically and technically unbalanced programs where
nothing much happens for the first one or two minutes. Then a
barrage of jumps is clustered in a way that does not maximize their
musical/choreographic impact, and feels crammed. There is no
adequate space around them to given them impact or make the program
structurally comprehensible. It amounts to a gaming of the scoring
system as well. What does it prove if you do difficult jumps at the
end of your program when your legs are still fresh from conserving
energy for the first two minutes. It would show more stamina if she had
done three or four difficult jump combos in the first half of the
program and then done an equal number at the end. But, because of
the rules the judges have to award bonus points. Both of these
programs were over-marked in the component scores and left me dissatisfied, though at least
Zagitova's artistry was skated rather than acted and took advantage
of the dramatic elements in the music, albeit in the predictable mode
of Minkus-speak. Medvedeva's attempt at psychological drama only
succeeded at melodrama. And the ending felt abrupt and anticlimactic.
Having said that, I will also say that I have never seen a 15 year
old skate with the kind of maturity of technique or polish that I saw
in Zagitova. She could truly be the best ever if she would take more
time to let her field moves and technique breathe, balance her
programs, choose more weighty music than Minkus' Don Quixote and then
really feel that music down in the soul of her skate blades. In all
of the best performances, the skaters seem rooted in the ice. Her
performances still feel too much like flitting about on the surface.
That's perfectly normal for fifteen, but let's not exaggerate its
quality or artistic merit.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
problem is that many times, figure skating's judges have come down on
the side of the theatrical performer over the dance interpreter, the
extrovert over the introvert. The subjective style over the
objective. They have chosen to elevate too often a shallow, inferior method
or art making. Anett Potzsch over Linda Fratiani in Lake Placid
1980, Katarina Witt's meretricious Carmen in Calgary1988, Petrenko
over Wylie in Albertville 1992, Oksana Baiul over Nancy Kerrigan
Lillehammer 1994, and Tara Lipinski over Michelle Kwan Nagano 1998.
Judges have at the same time, especially with the new scoring system,
given preeminence to triple-triple combinations and quadruple jumps.
Essentially they have guaranteed that increasingly, technique in the
very narrow sense of jumping, will win out over complete skating.
And a cheap theatricality, or even pure sentimentality (Medvedeva),
is placed on par with an integrated musicality in the component
score. This is a mistake that does not serve skating well and could
be another reason for the sport's continued decline. You will not
get many</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i> Boleros</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">,
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Liebestraums</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> or </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>La
Valses</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> unless you encourage them. If you
cannot win with a program that excites and moves people through a
balance of truly excellent technique and artistry, be it not completely
jammed with the visual confusion of bonus point clutter, then nobody
is going to try to create one. It doesn't pay. You also will not
get </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Boleros,</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Liebestraums</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>La
Valses</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> if they are skating to</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
La Bamba</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Love Story
</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">and </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Blue Danube</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">.
If you were to look at what are widely considered the top ten
skating performances of all time, or even just ten classic programs
of the past fifty years, you would find that almost all of them were
skated to serious music, often classical, instrumental music. That
is not to say, skating must be wed to the music of the past. Indeed
there are many great film scores, an entire 20</span><span style="font-size: large;"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="font-size: large;">and 21</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">century
classical corpus that remains untapped, plus jazz and much world
music that is being composed today that has to be better than a
static, love sick pop ballad without a pulse, or some saccharin new
age music that's not fit for anything but annoying people whose calls
have been put on hold.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Russian
skaters since the mid-1980's have risen in the ranks of singles
skating (the men most notably in 80's and 90's) and more recently the
women (mainly since Sochi). I mention the Russians because they
include some of the most technically proficient skaters in the sport,
but also in my opinion the most artistically overrated performers as
well. Beginning with Viktor Petrenko and Alexei Urmanov, then Ilia
Kulik, Alexei Yagudin and Yvgeni Plushenko you had five consecutive
Olympic champions and not one of them contributed much stylistically
to the sport. Perhaps early Petrenko's courtly elegance before he became overly mannered. Urmanov was also mannered, stiff-jointed beside, and a weak spinner too. Kulik never matured and was more of a
big jumping puppy dog on the ice with poor stretch and mediocre
posture. Yagudin was the most honest skater of the bunch, with good
flow out of his big jump combinations and very fast footwork, but
stylistically he was more of a ham than an artist. Clearly relishing
the teen idol relationship with his audience, the way Petrenko did
before him to his own detriment. Plushenko had a wild slash and burn
style that was sort of the progenitor of today's crammed, arm waving
perpetual motion programs. His fast footwork was so frantically
embellished by arm movements it distracted from what was happening
with his feet. His Najinski tribute program was presumptuous (and
more pretentious than Stojko's Bruce Lee tribute) because he never
really moved like a dancer or incorporated dance style successfully
into his skating, the way Paul Wylie did with ballet and Rudy Galindo
did with jazz dance.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Their
elevation in the sport was in part a continuation of a kind of
Pro-Russian skating fundamentalism (read as long-standing favoritism
if you will) and the complete capitulation of the sport to the
preeminence of jumps over all other technique, first triple jumps in
the late 80's and early 90's and then the quad jump more or less for
the last 20 years in the men's field, with a definite acceleration
since Evan Lysacek won gold at Vancouver in 2010 without one. It
will invade the women's senior competitions by the fall of 2018.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Which
brings us again to where the sport is today and these most recent
games in Pyeonchang. Having viewed NBC's coverage of figure skating
here in the US I have to comment on the Tara and Johnny show.
Clearly the eccentric qualities of the pair--former U.S. Men's
champion, Johnny Weir, and 1998 Olympic Champion, Tara Lipinski, with
daily fashion coordination and poodle fop hair-pieces to boot--were a
whimsical bit of pop-cultural confection aimed at capturing
meme-gobbling millennials and pitching figure skating (a sport bound
up in convention) as something sassy and cool. I don't know if it's
working, but the execs at NBC figure it's worth a try. They have
strong skating credentials and there is something refreshing after
all about skating commentators who don't take themselves so
seriously. They were both praised and criticized for not mincing
words about some of the performances in the team competition, but I
think the criticism got to them somewhat, as I noticed a bit more
cheer-leading as the competitions wore on. Maybe it was the Olympic
spirit. There were times when I wished they'd risen above catty
aesthetics to address more substantive matters, like noticing how
unskatable the musical selections were rather than approving of
anything by Beyonce (Lipinski) or shallowly pronouncing that a piece
of music was too dark for a particular skater, as if it were eyeshadow (Weir), rather than
pointing out that a skater can pull off any kind of music if the
choreography is right for it and delivered with conviction. On the
other hand, Johnny Weir can be surprisingly deft with a simile, such
as when he said that seeing a cleanly landed jump was as beautiful as
looking at freshly mowed grass. Overall it was working for me until
the men's competition. Then the two of them began to obsess about
quad (four revolution) jumps with a kind of reverence reserved for
Jesus' miracles. “Look at that quad,” was exclaimed more times
than I'd care to repeat. It would have been more interesting to
learn Weir was talking about a skater's muscular thigh. There were
graphics about how many quad jumps might be landed in this
competition compared with the past and how steeply the trajectory had
risen in the last four years since the Sochi games. And they kept
referring to it as the Quad Revolution. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Of
course, Tara and Johnny would have been too young to remember it, but
I'm sure they can find the video on You Tube of Kurt Browning
completing the first quadruple jump in competition 30 years ago in
1988. By rights, Browning is the real revolutionary and it's hard to
see something that has been in figure skating for three decades as a
revolution. As a matter of fact, by 1998, just 10 years after
Browning landed the first quadruple jump, Timothy Goebel had landed
three quads in a single program and was nicknamed 'The Quad King'.
Nathan Chen, the new 'Quad King' landed five quads at the 2018 U.S.
Nationals. So it's taken 20 years to go from 3 to 5 landed quads in
a program. That's no revolution, that's incremental progress. Since
then, for the record, Chen performed six at the Olympics and again at
Worlds, and it's true now that every quad has been landed except a
quad axel. Back in Goebel's day it was only quad Salchows and Toe
Loops. But the point remains. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Figure
Skating is an athletic competition and it is important that athletes
break boundaries in their sport. In figure skating this only seems
to apply to jumps however. Why is it nobody is pushing the
boundaries of spinning the way Lucinda Ruh did and footwork the way Scott Hamilton, Paul Wylie and
Kurt Browning did in the 80's and 90's? Or the way Yagudin and Plushenko pushed each other with their internal footwork competitions in the early 2000's. Footwork and spins have actually regressed in the last decade. Did you notice that just about
every skater had virtually identical spin combinations (all inferior
imitations of the spins Ruh executed incomparably in the late 90's).
Everybody, men and women, had some kind of pancake spin, doughnut
spin (usually with the hip dropped unatractively when the blade was
grasped), catchfoot Layback, Biellmann spin, A spin, or I spin. The
Biellmann epidemic is related to the catchfoot layback epidemic
because the catchfoot layback with the bent (rather than turned out)
knee is so predominant now and usually is used as a transition to a
one or two handed Biellmann. It used to be the Biellmann spin was
dramatic and unusual, but now that everyone is doing it (and I assume
being flexible enough to do one is a prerequisite)...it's quickly
becoming a cliche. And with the lack of musical choreography the
spins are not always positioned for optimal effect and you end up
saying, 'Another Biellman? Ho Hum.' </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How
every skater came to adopt this basic combination of spins is most
likely related to scoring. Everybody is doing the same difficulty
level positions in combination to ensure point parody in spins. If
everybody does the same combination, nobody can get an advantage
(except in degree of execution) in the relatively modest point haul
allotted to spins. So Spins are never going to decide a competition. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I
saw at the revolution were many mediocre, slow and often poorly
centered spins and almost no perfect unison in side by side pairs
spins (the worst I've ever seen, even among the top five or six pair
teams). I did not see a single blurred scratch spin at the
revolution either. Not really. And only about two or three skaters
who performed the layback with the free leg in attitude. And it is
extraordinary when two men, Adam Rippon of the U.S. and Shoma Uno of
Japan, had better laybacks than anyone in the women's competition. I
didn't see a footwork sequence that really took my breath away with
speed, difficulty and musical moment. It was mostly softer turns
executed at moderate or slow speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What
seems like the real revolution (or palace coup as the case may be) is
the absolute elevation of the quad in terms of points awarded just
for attempting one--in the form of a high base mark. So even when
you miss you might get a decent number of points if you had four full
revolutions, despite a step out or a two-footed landing. What I saw
at the revolution was the worst and most aesthetically unwatchable
men's competition in figure skating history. A veritable splatfest.
There were so many falls on quads from skaters who clearly had not
mastered them but felt compelled to add two or more of them in their
programs that you only saw three or four clean programs in the entire
competition, and I saw them all. Thirty short programs and
twenty-four longs. It was an embarrassment to the sport. But, there
was not much sharp commentary from Weir and Lipinski about this fact.
Only a kind of awe about the quads that were landed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Revolutions
seldom succeed, and some of those that do succeed get off the track,
have mixed results, or are poorly founded and eventually lead to
another undesirable state. Even the ice dancing revolution started
by Torville and Dean in 1984 ultimately failed, because the end
result no longer looked like dance. It wasn't. It wasn't about fast
difficult technical footwork anymore but eye catching lifts and
tricks, and, at it's worst, overt political statements. When you
take a look at Bolero now, for all its mesmerizing power and
originality back then, it was technically inferior to their </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Barnum</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">
program from the year before. That was their real masterpiece.
Bolero had a striking look and emotional power at the time, but it
does not hold up as well to skating scrutiny. I was a little
surprised when I watched it again to find that Dick Button had said
as much, very tactfully, in ABC's 1984 Olympic broadcast. One of the
things that has made figure skating such a draw is that it is capable
of supporting revolutions, factions and controversy. In the past
that was enough. But a looming sense of something incomprehensible
and wrong in the way the sport has evolved seems to have eroded some
of the old thrill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Compare videos of the skaters of the 1970's with those of today, however, and you
would have to admit that speed and jumping have improved, but other aspects of skating (holding edges and creating line) have deteriorated. The spins may be more unusual, but not necessarily better centered or faster. Overall the standard of athleticism and overall flexibility is better today than ever before. On the other hand, more difficult jumps are not always well-executed. The Lutz jump, for instance, is being done
incorrectly by many skaters. They don't hold the back outside edge until takeoff but change to inside before takeoff. What is sometimes referred to as a flutz. Having said that, I<span style="font-size: large;"> watched John Curry's gold medal performance at
Innsbruck again and was amazed at how slow, simple and lacking in
thrills it is. It has a perfection of style about it, but it is
achieved by the exclusion of technical risk and by a very simple choreography. It's a very sedate and safe kind of skating. It doesn't bristle with
the athletic energy, dangerous speed and drum-tight stretch you see from start to
finish in Paul Wylie. There's no comparison.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is
important to remember that school figures (the tracing of figures on the ice--once as many as 12--while changing feet, and performing turns) were once central to the sport, thus the name Figure Skating, and that the move away from figures occurred for two basic reasons: one they took too much time to perform and judge as the number of competitors increased, and when Figure Skating events were finally televised, they were not what audiences wanted to see. Furthermore, there was a major disconnect between the results of the competition and what the audience saw in the televised free skating program. Competitions weighted toward compulsories meant that specialists in figures often won the competitions at the expense of superior free skaters. But the evolution away from this was gradual, significantly from 1968 until late 1990 when compulsory figures were eliminated from international competitions altogether. The striking case of Janet Lynn was a flashpoint in the transition, because now, after the emergence of the balletic Peggy Fleming and the musically expressive Lynn herself, the potential for Figure Skating to emerge as an artistic form was being fully grasped. Figure skating had found
it's medium and an audience. This was Figure Skating's great revolution and evolution, but has it ultimately failed the sport? </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
golden era of this revolution in skating was roughly between1980
through Albertville in 1992, where skating had achieved a relative
balance between speed, strong fundamentals, challenging technique and a high level of
artistry. But remember all of the skaters of that era were trained in compulsory figures. Post Lillehammer you have the first generation of skaters that had never learned to do figures. In this new milieu, the size and difficulty of jumps became paramount with the judges. It wasn't just that jumps were
esteemed over all other technique. Some skaters of high reputation
landed a lot of difficult triple triple combinations and some quads,
but often they hadn't really mastered the edges or good landing
positions. It was as if the height and distance of jumps were the measures of superior
technique. Elvis Stojko and Todd Eldredge were guilty of landing
some big ugly jumps. Oksana Baiul could not perform a triple Lutz
and yet won a gold medal. It is one of the maddening things about
figure skating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Figure
skating may not need a revolution, but does it need compulsory figures again to return to the quality of it's best days? Has the loss of these fundamentals contributed to the loss of many treasured qualities in skating and a decline in the sport's popularity? Or is it a circumstantial case and is the real culprit the overemphasis on jumps? After all, is it not possible to teach the fundamentals of edge control and stroking without including compulsories in competitions? If it is really indispensable in developing sound technique, why isn't it being taught? There are many elements of other athletes training regimes that are essential in developing hand/eye coordination, quickness, stamina, strength, etc. that are not part of the competition itself. That is we don't keep score during practice, and furthermore we don't want to watch it as an audience. Athletes need repetitive training to progress, and coaches want to observe it to measure progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think it was correct to remove compulsories from the competition. From the perspective of an audience they are meaningless. That is to say unless you could stand right over the marks, it would be pointless and dull to watch 30 skaters trace the same figure 8 from rink-side. The minute differences in tracings would not make a bit of visual difference from afar. I think it's clear that as figure skating entered the television age, that audiences would have scratched their heads and walked away if they kept awarding gold medals to the Trixi Schubas over the Janet Lynns. When it came down to it, compulsory figures did not make Schuba a better free skater than Lynn. For it is one thing to control an edge and trace a line at slow speed in a quiet rink; it is another thing to control that edge after 3 airborne revolutions at high speed before an audience and a panel of judges on national t.v. School figures may demand technique and concentration, but they are not athletically demanding. So then, it could be fair to say that training in school figures helped Janet Lynn become a better skater, but the fact that she didn't excel at them in competitions ended up being a really inadequate way of judging her skill as a skater. Unless the figures themselves were going to remain the point, why were we using them to judge skaters? They had a place as a form of discipline, but skaters like Lynn and Fleming showed that there was a beautiful art form to be explored in free skating. That was the point. That was the revolution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't want to see compulsories make a comeback in competition, but if a coach like Brian Orser, who grew up with school figures, thinks they are so valuable, then he should be teaching them on the practice ice to his growing list of Olympic champions. Just consider that Paul Wylie, perhaps the most complete skater in the history of the sport, would not have won an Olympic medal had not the compulsories been eliminated by the time of the Albertville games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There has always been this tension between figure skating the sport and figure skating the art. The traditional origins of the sport as a pure technical display has always been in conflict and a little suspicious of the artistic side. When the emphasis switched, I think judging became fixated on the jumps as the new school figures. The thing that keeps figure skating a sport, the most inarguably athletic element in it, that keeps it from slipping into pure subjectivity (which is part of the nature of art itself). It is not an unfounded fear. All the more reason to develop a more complete respect for all the technical elements of the sport and to place a more objective standard on the artistic element by not disconnecting it from technique (the way subjective interpreters have with facial expressions and obvious gestures).<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;">What figure skating does need is a much more balanced and
honest scoring system with more emphasis on spins and footwork, edge and line, and
high value in the component score for difficult field moves that do
not receive a technical score. There should be no anonymous judging.
Skaters should get credit for what they complete and not for what
they plan or attempt. There should be higher component scores for
actual choreographed programs and deductions for not making any real
effort to match moves to music. There is a technical aspect to this called timing, and there is high risk in creating a
program that demands you be in perfect sync with the music from start
to finish. Today's ambient music style denies skaters the impact and excitement, while absolving them of the discipline, that comes with precision timing. Finally, figure
skating must decide once and for all (how impossible is that in a
subjective sport) that it should elevate the objective interpretation
of music over the subjective presentation of character. This will
reward musical interpreters over mere personalities, give us the thrill of feeling the emotion of
music come to life through that hard won synthesis of athleticism and
genuine musicality, and it will bring fans back to this most
distinctive of sports—one that dares also to be an art.</span></div>
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Much political analysis of the Trump candidacy and presidency
to date is dedicated to the forensics of his political trajectory (a daily
obsession unparalleled in presidential politics), as if it were a mystery in
which we know who did it, but we’re all really baffled by how it was done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did he destroy a field of 16 Republican
candidates, while breaking every single rule of campaign popular wisdom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did he overcome the Access Hollywood
tape, when for decades other candidates had been forced to withdraw for lesser
scandals?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did the electoral map
swing his way, when all the polling foretold a Clinton victory? How have mere
accusations from the #MeToo movement taken down dozens of powerful men, while
the multiply-accused and self-described pussy grabbing President remains
unscathed? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does a payoff to a porn
star for an alleged extra-marital affair cause barely a blip on the political
radar? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can the working class Trump
supporters have such blind loyalty to a billionaire with a history of stiffed
workers and business partners, outsourced labor, bankruptcies, reflexive lying,
even fraud (Trump University), while convincing a large chunk of the electorate
that he is not an elitist pig they should despise, but rather a very rich and
smart stand-in for them? </div>
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Of course it makes no sense that such a dubious past should
inspire so much confidence in a campaign waged on behalf of the ‘forgotten
people’. No more sense than saying Wall Street billionaires like Steve Minuchin
are the best people to guide the economy, when they were among the unpunished
culprits in the ’08 crash and housing crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or that a staunch opponent of the EPA should be chosen as its new
director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could add whole paragraphs of
logical contradictions that should be sufficient to convince anyone with a
logical mind that Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified, even automatically disqualified,
to run for, let alone be, our president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is one of the problems with the Twitter speed at which the Trump
presidency has unfolded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is simply
too much going on to wrap your head around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Too many twitter wars to get worked up over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many convoluted scandals and conflicts of
interest, however doggedly pursued, to keep straight or explain to friends over
coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many fibs and outright lies
on matters large and small that they swallow each other up, like a succession
of ever larger fish in some animated movie sequence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many White House staffers and cabinet
appointees coming and going that revolving doors should be installed in the
West Wing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is to negotiate the political
life of the nation as if it were a vast <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Concentration’
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Well, if you are not following this stuff closely (probably
like a good percentage of Americans), you can remain blissfully ignorant of the
growing compendium of lies, potentially illegal Russian entanglements, scary
regulatory changes, the swirl of chaos and scandal at the White House, or the totalitarian
style attacks on the free press and rampant conflicts of interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A casual glance at headlines and sound bites
gathered from select news sources can make the Trump presidency sound pretty
good if you are favorably disposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s
standing up to North Korea, China and Iran; he’s a staunch friend of Israel;
he’s growing the economy and the markets through deregulation; we’re all going
to get a tax cut; unemployment is the lowest it’s been in decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have been paying attention, you can
ignore all of the red flags as “fake news”, even video footage of the lies (which
make for a pretty astounding montage), if you stay tuned to Fox News like the President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, better yet, latch onto any one of a
growing wish list of counter-conspiracies designed to distract from the Mueller
investigation and goad the American public into an ever greater distrust of
governmental institutions, so that when the facts do finally come out half the
country will not believe them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never
mind that these conspiracies ignore significant facts and rest on premises that
can be undone with no more than placing events in their proper context within
an accurate timeline (the Carter Page FISA warrant and the Uranium One deal for
instance).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, even when you hear
someone in The Base acknowledge Trump’s deficiencies, it is usually limited to
a critique of his use of Twitter, or accompanied by a rebuttal that all the
other politicians are liars too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump’s
our liar, I guess, the logic follows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alternative
Facts, a phrase presciently coined by Kellyanne Conway after the inaugural lie
about Inauguration attendance, are now the SOP for congressional Republicans,
Speaker Ryan no less, to fully endorse, reinforce and replicate the reality
bubble Trump inhabits, wherein what he thinks and wishes to be true equals
reality. Trump World keeps getting bigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tax bill is a perfect example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most American’s know this is going to benefit the wealthy and in the
long run, perhaps even the short run, hurt the middle class and poor, if by
nothing more than funneling more wealth and resources to the top 1% in the form
of massive corporate tax cuts, while under the pay-as-you-go rule triggering
automatic Medicare cuts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Trump White
House had already aired ads about how well the middle class tax cuts were
working before the 1<sup>st</sup> paychecks under the new tax rates had even
been cut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw such an ad the day
before I saw the extra $15.00 I had last pay period (about $7.50 a week).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the market reacting to rising interest
rates and fear of inflation, I’m sure that $360.00 extra I’ll get this year
will barely cover costs incurred by the spikes in gasoline, heating fuel and
groceries that always go hand in hand with inflationary trends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Etc. Etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blah. Blah. Blah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means
nothing to The Base.</div>
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That is one of the greatest sources of anxiety for Trump
opponents, conservative and liberal alike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is popular wisdom that The Base has fallen so far down the rabbit
hole that they are beyond retrieval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
when you are talking about roughly 35 to 40 percent of the American public
that’s a real problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact is that
the rabbit hole has become so vast we have all fallen into it against our
wills, or, perhaps, because in observing the spectacle so closely and
faithfully we got too close to the liquefied edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s not the sky we’re looking at but the
bottom of a brave new sink hole, formerly known as Making America Great
Again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just look closely at the evidence
and, despite the paucity of legislation, Trump is doing or attempting to do everything
he said he would, even if the results (as with the Tax Bill) subvert his
populist rhetoric.</div>
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The intent of legislative and deregulatory efforts thus far
has been aimed roughly at undoing Obama era laws and directives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of this is being done via executive
orders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this sense, The Base is
correct in seeing his administration as a success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even where he has failed (healthcare) they
believe that he is trying. Admittedly, his lack of willingness to tackle the
complexities of the healthcare system either conceptually or in the form of a plan,
his abdication to the legislature and subsequent laying of blame at the feet of
Mitch McConnell seems more like incompetence, indifference and sheer laziness
than trying to me, but I guess the demand for basic competence and presidential
responsibility is more elitist noise to be ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latest government shutdown and
immigration stalemate has been Trump’s big chance to make a show of fulfilling
The Wall Promise, something that had barely been on the radar for most of the
past year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevermind that if it becomes
part of the federal budget, the American taxpayer, and not Mexico, will be
asked to pay for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blah. Blah. Blah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fake news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It means nothing.</div>
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Deregulating to help small businesses may be a favored talking
point, but know that among the vast rollback of regulations, are those eroding worker
safety protections, removal of emissions standards for coal burning power
plants, removal of rules requiring chemical disclosure for frackers, power
plant water pollution and dental mercury waste controls as well, plus others
aimed at weakening consumer protections that will benefit drug companies and
the financial services industry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
doubt the removal of so many regulations has spurred market confidence and will
make companies more profitable in the short term and more powerful in the long
term, but only at the expense of Trump’s “forgotten people”. Clean air, clean
water and safe workplaces have long term economic benefits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as the now partially rescinded Fiduciary
Rule put in place after the ’08 crash was aimed at protecting the economic
security of those saving for retirement. So say goodbye to secure retirement as
financial advisers are once more free to steer investors toward options with
lower returns and higher fees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Follow the link for The Brookings Institute’s
complete interactive list of Trump’s deregulatory activity of the past year and
glimpse the depth of the economic and environmental sink hole Trump has in
store for us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation-in-the-trump-era/"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation-in-the-trump-era/</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Deregulation under Trump, as part of Making America Great
Again, indulges several American fantasies:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that we can revive the coal industry,
that oil and natural gas are the present and future of energy, that climate
change is a hoax and we don’t have to demand green technologies, alternative
energy and an infrastructure that supports it, that unsustainable short term
economic growth (the kind that gets politicians through a couple of election
cycles) is all we have to worry about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The result of sustaining old fantasies for even one more decade will
likely deny America any real chance of remaining globally relevant,
environmentally sustainable and economically viable through the coming
century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be left behind—just a
giant sinkhole around Trump’s 1950’s reality bubble.</div>
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But this nostalgia for getting things back to the way they
were is not just about denying painful economic and environmental change, but
about escaping the most painful of all changes:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>demographic and social change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The uneasiness of a country with an identity and power structure based
on whiteness coming to grips with its inevitable browning is one of the drivers
behind anti-immigration sentiment and policy. It is also behind the deeply
undemocratic congressional redistricting and waves of restrictive voter laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are being exposed increasingly, in the
media and recent court rulings, as unconstitutional, racially biased efforts to
limit the effect of these unstoppable demographic changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Americans,
especially older white Americans, are having an existential crisis. </div>
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This gets back to the unquestioning loyalty of The Base to
this president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there are a
hundred reasons they should see Trump as the antithesis of the populist
champion, there is an even deeper level of identification with Trump that
transcends the facts of his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump
the presidential candidate, talked the way they talked, said all things they
felt but were too afraid to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
not new to point out that The Base elected him because of the things he said,
not despite them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pundits had it
wrong because they kept thinking he was going to go too far one time, when in
fact The Base was saying ‘Right On!’ every time Trump pushed the envelope of
anti-immigrant sentiment or racial animus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Trump said Judge Curiel could not rule without bias in the Trump
University case because he was Mexican (even though he was born in the USA and
is as much a citizen as Donald J himself), you know if Trump said it, there were
millions like him in America who felt the same way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American means white. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The identification with Trump on this level is
as gut deep and contagious as C. difficile in an infected hospital wing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very personal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they defend him it is as if they are
defending themselves. Are they not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
somebody tells you again and again who they are, why would you not believe
them? They are Trump and Trump is them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Deepak Chopra is one of the few voices suggesting that Trump
is not an anomaly at all, but a typical representation of the “shadow”, the
unconscious impulses in society that once freed can wreak havoc:</div>
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<span style="color: black;">The shadow compounds all
the dark impulses--hatred, aggression, sadism, selfishness, jealousy,
resentment, sexual transgression--that are hidden out of sight. The name
originated with Carl Jung, but its basic origin came from Freud's insight that
our psyches are dualistic, sharply divided between the conscious and
unconscious. The rise of civilization is a tribute to how well we obey our
conscious mind and suppress our unconscious side. But what hides in the shadows
will out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When it does, societies
that look well-ordered and rational, fair and just, cultured and refined,
suddenly erupt in horrible displays of everything they are not about: violence,
prejudice, chaos, and ungovernable irrationality. In fact, the tragic irony is
that the worst eruptions of the shadow occur in societies that on the surface
have the least to worry about. This explains why all of Europe, at the height
of settled, civilized behavior, threw itself into the inferno of World War I.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If Trump is the latest
expression of the shadow, he isn't a bizarre anomaly, which would be true if normal,
rational values are your only standard of measure. Turn the coin over, making
the unconscious your standard of measure, and he is absolutely typical. When
the shadow breaks out, what's wrong is right. Being transgressive feels like a
relief, because suddenly the collective psyche can gambol in forbidden fields.
When Trump indulges in rampant bad behavior and at the same time says to his
riotous audiences, "This is fun, isn't it?" he's expressing in public
our ashamed impulse to stop obeying the rules.</span></div>
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The problem with the United States is that all the while
it has aspired to justice, equality and freedom and clung to a mythology of
exceptionalism, it also has been about “…violence, prejudice, chaos and
ungovernable irrationality”, from the peculiar institution of American slavery
and another century of Jim Crow after emancipation, the extermination of Native
American peoples, the ill treatment of Irish and Italian immigrants (who were
also racialized during their initiation to the “melting pot”), the internment
of Japanese Americans in WWII, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McCarthyism in the 1950’s, to today’s biased
criminal justice system with its mass incarceration and for profit prison
industry, and a political system corrupted by dark money, unconstitutional
redistricting and racially motivated voter laws (what better way to erase a
people than by eliminating them from the voter roles).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add to this over two centuries of aggressive
foreign policy and empire building, which means that we have been almost always
at war somewhere in the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It is hardly an exhaustive list of our shadowy unconscious
at work, but it seems important to expose this continuous strain in our history
at a time when both our President and many of our citizens have no grounding in
our basic history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A recent study
concluded that only 8 percent of American students could name slavery as a
central cause of the civil war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/A-disturbing-new-report-on-how-poorly-schools-12562060.php">https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/A-disturbing-new-report-on-how-poorly-schools-12562060.php</a> . </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would
surprise me little if in some quarters of the internet slavery is considered a
hoax made up by the liberal elite or maybe even the Chinese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a list is instructive however if you
happen to find yourself excluded from those who lived under those particular
shadows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The common thread in the list
is that being the right shade of white would have kept you out of harms way and
thus at given times and places made you unaware and out of sympathy with those
who lived in America’s shadowland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
would seem these so-called “unconscious impulses” are virtually free-ranging in
American history and life, in inverse proportion to its stated ideals and
global professions of exceptionalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump is US.</div>
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Compare the character and personal conduct of Donald Trump
with the general features of American life, and they present mirror images of
each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Donald Trump is a rich
celebrity in a culture that is obsessed with rich celebrities; he’s a reality
T.V. star in a genre that has so oversaturated the market it is a wonder there
is any genuine storytelling left on television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Trump campaign brought together the overarching desires of Americans
to be famous and rub elbows with the rich. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all being at a Trump rally was like
starring in a rolling reality T.V. show. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he told his crowds how much he loved
them, it was like hearing ‘You’re hired!” on an episode of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Apprentice</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was real;
it was live; it was entertaining and most of all it was emotionally satisfying
for people more let down than fulfilled by social media, or feeling squeezed
out by immigrants, left behind by job outsourcing and wage stagnation, and
generally ignored by a dysfunctional and out of touch government. The ratings
driven news media was no less influenced by Trump’s celebrity and played no
small part in bringing the Trump campaign to national prominence by covering
his rallies, while his Republican opponents, all colorless and staid in
comparison, languished off camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
there’s Trump’s long history of outsourcing jobs for his product lines, and
mistreating workers as a real estate developer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A great many of the 3,500 lawsuits Trump has been involved in were
brought by workers Trump failed to pay, including dishwashers, painters, cooks
and waiters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it also included real
estate brokers who’d sold millions of dollars worth of property for him and
lawyers who’d defended him in court. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span>Non-disclosure
agreements as part of a multitude of settlements are the main reason we did not
hear a chorus of voices against Trump during his presidential campaign. Trump is
a good example of the general stiffing of American workers in the past 40 years
through outsourcing, union busting, suppressed wages, and poor compensation,
including lack of sick time and family leave for entire segments of the work
force, like restaurant workers.</div>
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Moreover, Trump has been dogged by sexual harassment
complaints and accusations of assault in a culture that has a major problem
with sexual harassment and even rape in our workplaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From our hospitality industry to Hollywood,
from college campuses to our military, from Silicone Valley to Washington D.C. we
are waking up to the knowledge that Trump is US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump’s shady dealings with foreign banks and
Russian oligarchs mirror our own dubious dealings past and present with
dictators and totalitarian regimes, our secret wars and arms deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are a country drowning in debt, with a
newly signed tax bill and two year budget deal that will raise the debt by
trillions. Donald Trump’s entire financial empire has been built largely on
leveraging debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other part of Trump
is branding, name recognition and reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In that he shares a lot in common with the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We market ourselves as the bastion of freedom
and democracy, and as the champion of human rights around the world, but when
you look at the human and environmental cost of our foreign meddling just since
World War II it’s not that hard to see the face of not only a narcissist, but a hypocrite also in the mirror. We may as well be Trump on the campaign trail yelling "Lock her Up!" In
that we have failed to make it a priority to rebuild our infrastructure and
transportation system and are falling behind many nations in healthcare, education
and quality of life and yet continue to unabashedly think of ourselves as No.
1, we are drinking from the same river of narcissistic Lethe as Donald Trump, a
man who kept touting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebrity Apprentice</i>
as the No. 1 show, long after the ratings had slipped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those of us outside of Trump’s ideological
bubble see the truth, just as those outside of the US, especially those who
have managed to survive some of our foreign policy objectives, have a clearer
vision of who we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty much since
our founding we have needed to promote our brand with Alternative Facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we hold up our blinkered self-concept,
mere wishes as reality, we are Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we are incapable of taking a hard look at ourselves, take
responsibility and self-correct our dysfunction (such as our present course on
climate change and the shamelessly treacherous and self-interested actions of
today’s Congress) we are Trump. </div>
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Trump is our president today because the chickens have
finally come home to roost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are so
full of him, that he became, not an anomalous event, but the karma we deserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the embodiment of the way we live, or,
at least, an unconscious wish of how we want to live:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spend without accountability; go anywhere in
the world on a whim; live a life of lavish consumption; grab and harass anybody
you want for your sexual fulfillment without consequence, exploit workers
without oversight and reap fame and adulation while doing all of that in a
system that rewards you with ever-accruing wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the American Dream written by a
narcissist. Trump is US.</div>
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Many white liberals were exasperated to hear African
American voters express indifference as to whether we got Trump or Hillary in
the White House. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, like comedian Dave
Chappell, express little surprise that America had gone for Trump, while
white Americans were in disbelief that the vote went the way it did. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc</span></a>
.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black and brown Americans would likely tell you that when they
look at US, they have always seen the face of Donald Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are already living in the country whites
are now afraid of living in under Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Welcome to reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump is US.</div>
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But, we have self-corrected before at various points in our
history, often after much blood-shed, when internal and external pressures have
demanded a more perfect union.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
movement underfoot aims at nothing less than undoing those hard fought
corrections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that the demographic
shift in progress seems inevitable, it is possible to see Trump’s rise and the
capitulation of Congress to him as a desperate last stand for cultural and
ideological control of the country, to delay, at best, the inevitable social shift
for as long as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, I suspect,
(and this is a very real danger) if supporting a Trump autocracy were the only
means of halting the browning of America and they could remain the ruling party
in the deal, this Republican controlled Congress would flush our constitution, lofty
ideals and exceptionalism right down the toilet of failed democracies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have already chosen.</div>
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For about two decades I’ve had a theory that the cultural
and ideological split in the country would eventually lead to a splintering of
America into autonomous and strategically allied nation states, and I’ve
wondered if we would not be much better off to shed our superpower mantle. There
is life after empire. Without our central government there would be no
Washington gridlock, no US foreign policy as a target for world-wide terror, no
need for US to be the world’s policeman, or for the endless, expensive, bloody
conflicts associated with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this
particular moment, however, it would be naïve to think that such a fracture
would provide anything but an opportunity for a totalitarian presence to assert
control to keep the whole thing together, and in the event of such a split, a military
coup could easily result to secure that end. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not far-fetched. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ideological fracture in the country is
already set, and the New California movement suggests that geographic splits
are next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With endless legislative gridlock
and dysfunction on the horizon, mounting problems with no movement toward
solutions, not a few (including a gleeful Putin) believe that our democracy has
already failed and needs a single will to rule and make things happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t look now, the administrative coup is
almost complete: Congress is in lock step with Trump in his purge of federal
law enforcement, the President’s hurry-up on court appointments has the
Judiciary is in his sights as well <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/politics/trump-judiciary-appeals-courts-conservatives.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/politics/trump-judiciary-appeals-courts-conservatives.html</a>, a host of government agencies, including
the State Department, are being gutted, and with the echo “massive voter fraud”
ringing in right wing ears, a purge of voter rolls is ramping up; and let's not forget that relentless campaign to discredit the free press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dominos are falling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day, all day, as never before, the news
and opinion is ever Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
already made the conditions of the totalitarian state a reality, and we have
obliged him by granting him the totality his ego craves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump is us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If it were not so, we would have stopped him long before it came to
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-50568131643104913542017-03-16T17:59:00.002-07:002018-09-19T06:23:04.794-07:00Word of the Week: PropagandaNext to the cash register at the company cafeteria where I work, a Word of the Week is posted on a small café chalkboard. The man who posts it is solely responsible for this and he's been doing it for almost as long as he's been working here. I've never asked him where he got the idea to do it, or how he chooses the words.<br />
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I always notice the word of the week, though, because I'm a writer and happen to like words, but I hadn't given much thought as to whether there was any rhyme or reason to the words themselves. Until lately.<br />
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At first, there were some random and interesting words, but over time I detected a pattern in the word selection. Here's a list of some that have appeared on the chalk board: perseverance, freedom, trust, hope, cooperation. Those are just a few. I wish I had been keeping a running list to give my observation greater weight. From my limited sample, what all the words have in common is a positive, value-laden quality. Never are the words strange, esoteric, humorous or difficult. It's always a word that is in such common usage that it has already become a cliche, but by extension so have the values these words uphold. In a way, each one is an example of the most succinct form of the sermon. <br />
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They are instructive in one way. They demonstrate how cliches work to weaken words, especially the more abstract ones. It is downright difficult to define freedom, or hope and what they represent to different people, because they immediately cry out for qualification even more than definition. At the same time, they are so freighted with cultural baggage we feel we are meant to know exactly what they mean and even more than this that we ought to possess their quality or shoulder their baggage of meaning.<br />
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I guess I noticed and began to resent the Word of the Week when I felt I was not being educated or even amused, but preached at. More insidious is the way the cliche, used here to assume a broadly held value and unquestionable aspiration, acts as a form of propaganda, a way of coercing us (perhaps without our even knowing it) into agreement. John Gardner warned against cliches in fiction because they reduced everything in life to a formula. But that formulaic thinking is itself a kind of coercion, telling us how we ought to see things, or what our expectations should be, whereas fresh language allows us to pause and see something anew, does not allow us to immediately translate a thought, action or description into a safe and familiar thing. Free thought, which takes more effort than most of us freedom-loving Americans imagine, can free words of the cliche as cultural propaganda. In the meantime, I'm guessing the next Word of the Week will be agreement.<br />
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<br />John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-65382217732967559842017-02-17T10:54:00.000-08:002017-02-17T10:54:39.926-08:00MONARCH fiction by John Caruso<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>onight, Jared and I sit on our
concrete block before the dwindling fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He talks about taking the train to the shore one weekend this
summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get up and walk to the edge of
the underpass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has rained enough to
speckle the April dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The air is sweet
with settling pollution, soily and sour with new grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hollow OORRRR sound of the city hums
perpetually around us, like the hypnotic drone of Eastern music.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Do
you remember the room over Ocean Park?" Jared asks.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
make a sleepy sound and walk back toward the fire.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wind
rouses an eddy of trash and dust and brittle leaves around the underpass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A juice carton scuttles like a fat rodent
after the cellophane ghost of a cupcake. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
jumps to his feet.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"A
symphony," he shouts, leaping through the swirl, a soda can clattering
around his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We haven't heard music
in weeks.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Dance
with me," he says, holding out his arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wave him off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spins and
chases the tail of the cupcake wrapper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Over and over he misses pinning the paper with his toe, until he is
delirious with laughter and gives up the chase for the simple joy of
movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He waves his arms.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Ow,"
Jared bends over suddenly and covers his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The whirlwind dies and everything falls still around his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something's blown into his eyes.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You're
hopeless," I tell him.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
sit him down beside me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He takes his
hands away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One eye is all right; the
other one is red and watery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared is
handsome and dirty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His hair is long,
impossibly tangled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He used to keep it
short and sharp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I forget the
way he was when I met him, laughing into cold, bright sea spray on a rock at
Longport, like he wasn't afraid of anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He'd looked up through miles of Puccini sky, spread his arms and said,
"Let me die this way."</div>
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stand up and lead him across the old railroad tracks to the floodwall and the
spigot that not even the city remembered to shut off.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
faucet spits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Air wheezes out of the
pipe before a steady stream of water flows, like the reverse of someone saved
from drowning.</div>
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can't."</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Like
this."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take my thumb and
forefinger and pry it open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Now
hold it like that and bend over."</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Water
floods the dust all around our feet like a miniature disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps a whole colony of ants is washed
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a child, I played this
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cup my hands under the
faucet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water is frigid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I splash it in Jared's face.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Stop
it, Salvy, that's cold."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Just
Blink."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fill my hands again,
splash it harder in his eyes.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
gasps, chest heaving like the cold shock’s going to give him a heart attack.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Better?"
I ask.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
wipes his face with his shirtfront.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah,
I can see," he says, smiling foolishly, leaning on the floodwall.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Good."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fill my hands up again and dump water over
his head.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Salvy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What for?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"For
being a wuss."</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
looks up at me, water glistening on his eyelashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"You want me to say it doesn't
hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That nothing hurts."</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
reach out and squeeze the hollows of his cheeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel the bluntness of molars rooted to his
jaw bone, the silky wetness just behind his lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let go and walk away.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Salvy?"
Jared begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He follows me back to the
underpass, his question unformed. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
throw two branches on the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"I'm going to sleep."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
spread blankets on the pallet that lies behind the concrete blocks, and I fold
them back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared stands watching me from
across the fire, hugging himself.</div>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Come
on," I tell him, but he doesn't move.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
lie down on my back, settle under the smoky blankets and look up at the belly
of the old Station Road that covers us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They closed this whole section the last time the river flooded and swung
an extension wide of the river bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is home to the bats whose bald wings flutter out to hunt the early night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is our home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
a few minutes, Jared wanders over to the pallet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He watches me, but I keep staring into the
shadows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sighs and sinks to his
knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lately Jared prays.</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
turn on my side toward the concrete and sleep.</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b> awaken with Jared pressed against
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My whole backside stings with his
heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweat tickles in the small of my
back and in the creases behind my knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Without waking him, I turn the blankets back all the way down so they
don't entangle my feet, then I hoist myself up, breath held, onto the concrete
block.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cold
seeps through my clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lie there
taking deep breaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A breeze cools the
sweat of my face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared clutches the covers in his sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit up, swing my legs down over the
concrete and stand up by the remains of the fire, a faint red pulse beneath a
bed of white ashes.</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b> walk through the empty industrial
yards east of the downtown—stacks of seasoned lumber, mounds of lime and gravel
covered in plastic and weighted with tires--where the scrape of my shoe doubles
back like the sound of somebody following me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I cross the heaving macadam of an abandoned drive-in theater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bare, rusted frame of the screen still
towers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once
my brother Danny and I knelt on the back seat of my father's Plymouth, our
faces pressed to the rear windshield to glimpse that screen before the curve of
the highway stole our view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A giant man
and woman kissed, their mouths folding softly one into the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their eyes were closed and their faces looked
pained, as though kissing was something they were forced to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Danny and I giggled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We embraced dramatically and smacked at each
other's lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father saw us in the
rear view mirror, swung the car suddenly onto the shoulder and screeched to a
stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He turned in his seat, teeth dug
into his lower lip, reached back and grabbed me by the shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Don't ever let me see you doing that
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You hear me?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he threw me against the seat back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was nine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Danny was seven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now,
in place of a movie screen, there is only a white sheet rippling over the flank
of bare girders, like a mast on a ghost ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is initialed in red spray paint, blood of adolescence: <span style="font-family: "impact" , "sans-serif";">A. C. + P. T. FOREVER.</span></div>
<br />
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</div>
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</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b> don't stop until I’m in the West End
of the city on the platform of the train station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clouds part and three-quarters of a moon
shines through their opaque haze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
muted fanfare of the twelve-thirty train rings out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A single white light glows above the rails.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People
step from the terminal to the platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The silver Amtrak rushes in, brakes whining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sits rattling and hissing for several
minutes before the passengers unboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wonder what kind of people travel at this hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are businessmen, college students, families with small children,
solitary young men, all walking in the thrall of sleep.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
sit up when I see him, a silhouette moving down the platform from the end
cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His walk, the swing in his
shoulders, sets him apart from the drab, stiffness of the other passengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wears a v-neck sweater without a shirt,
and pale blue jeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has sleepy eyes
and a high forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he looks at me
I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is acknowledgement in his
eyes, but also something unknowable--the x in desire’s unbalanced
equation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passes through the doors
and walks alone through the terminal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
goes down the stairs to the street level.</div>
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</div>
<br />
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</div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b> follow him, at a distance, to an old
brownstone church three or four blocks north of the station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He crosses the street and enters through a
side door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pull on the same door a minute
later, but it's locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light pulses
against the stained glass windows, illuminating saints and martyrs in sudden
flashes.</div>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
walk around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The front door is
ajar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above the arched lintel, a single
word shines in pale green neon: <span style="font-family: "engraversgothic bt" , "sans-serif";">Chrysalis</span>.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Inside
the foyer, a persistent syncopated beat pumps the place full of sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vibrations tingle the soles of my feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A vapid blond boy, thin as a pixy, takes my
money in one graceful hand and stamps a butterfly on my wrist with the
other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very large and formidable man
in a yellow slicker sits on a folding chair in the corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may rain, but it isn’t raining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smiles and says, "Good evening."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I open my mouth to speak, but my throat is
parched and my voice cracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cough and
nod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blond boy rolls his eyes and
clucks his tongue.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Three
massive wooden doors lead to the sanctuary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I pull the handle of the nearest one and peer inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Frenetic
treble stabs the air above the bass beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The nave is crammed with men, and women who are really men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They dance, or just twist their
shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is hardly room to
shuffle your feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cigarette smoke forms
a fluid Milky Way above the bobbing heads, diffusing the pulse and spray of
colored lights that angle down the vaulted ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rafts of men lean against the walls drinking
or beating brownstone to the music with their fists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some pose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Others leer from the vantage of black boxes that rise in triple tiers
between the stained glass windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
there are solitary men, a space around them wider than physics will allow for
in a crowd like this.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
want to stay in the doorway, unseen, but I'm stricken with thirst and the bar
glows in green neon at the altar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wind
and nudge through a loose zigzag avenue between the dancers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the solitary men look at me, their eyes
bitter with lust.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
have not money, so I take the stool next to a heavy, middle-aged man. Every
pore on his florid nose shines in the greenish bar light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man says, “Hi there.”</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hello,”
I say and smile back at him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He offers
me a drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’ll have what you’re
having,” I tell him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After he pays the
bartender, I thank him and I face out on my stool toward the dance floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I like to watch the dancers,” I say, leaning
close enough for him to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few
minutes later, I stand up casually and sip my sweet milky drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I begin to move in place as if the desire to
dance has taken hold of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, I
slowly drift away from him, searching the clustering faces for the man from the
station.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
music fades out and all the arms come down.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
I hear the low steady human murmur, laughter ringing out antiphonally, but it
sounds like silence after the stabbing music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bodies recede from the dance floor in a reverse procession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A single spotlight beams the black curtain
stretched across the organ loft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
church bell chimes once and a deep thrum washes through the giant speakers,
pulsing and growing stronger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
loft, a man size chrysalis pushes through the black curtain, descends on a
cable like a gondola.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pod glows
faintly from within, florescent green at first, but soon it darkens to gray;
then turns again slowly to deep burnt orange veined in black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It comes to a stop over the center of the
dance floor.</div>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Some
of the men head for the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others
draw closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take advantage of the
flux and push my way through to the edge of the dance floor.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just
as I gain the front line of spectators, the chrysalis cracks and the pod splits
open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A figure crouches, covered in the
folds of a black and orange silken cape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The thrum crescendos and the figure rises, slowly opens, spreading the
bold patterned wings of a Monarch butterfly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is the man from the train, naked except for a deeply cut black
thong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His torso is broad with his arms
outstretched, tensile, shining with sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A slow drumming begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
monarch flaps his wings on the beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Suddenly he leaps, wings rippling like a kite then resting open as he
lands lightly on one knee. </div>
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</div>
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</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>he Monarch has danced and flown,
disappearing through a door beside the altar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The man in the yellow slicker circles the nave, nudging everybody out
like a shepherd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Club's
closed," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody
argues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
my way through the door I overhear two men in front of me.</div>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"He's
the most beautiful," one says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Since
the Egyptian last summer," says the other.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
remember."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
heart sinks at the hungry sound of their voices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many of these men will remain, nets of
their desire poised for the monarch’s capture?</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Only
four or five linger, restless and unsatisfied by the dance and drink of this
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest melt away in weary twos
and threes, or alone out to the four winds of the city, with the mark of a
butterfly on their hands.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
look up at the burgeoning moonlight, thinking about a gamble.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Excuse
me," I say, sounding polite but agitated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Does anyone know what time it is?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
of them tells me it's a quarter past two.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Goddamn
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always late," I say and stomp
off around the corner, down the side of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wait just around the back a few feet from
the side door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moments later I hear the
knob turn and the door unlatch.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
am right there when the Monarch steps out, in his street clothes again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He takes one step back.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It's
okay," I tell him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"There's a
little crowd waiting for you out front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought you'd be tired from the train and all the dancing, and
wouldn't want to be bothered."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah,
you were at the station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks man,
that's nice," he says in a faded Latin accent, soft and slow as the last
moments before sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smiles.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"This
way."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I touch his arm.</div>
<br />
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</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">H</b>is name is Angel Negron.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
looked like an angel coming off the train," I tell him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I’m
no angel," he says and laughs.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
sit down side by side on a high-backed wooden bench along the wall of the main
terminal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the unnatural brightness,
he appears younger than he did stepping off the train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His eyes tilt slightly downward at the
corners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His cheeks are smooth caramel
brown, his jaw narrow.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
think it's the other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You've been
looking out for me."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I’m
glad to," I tell him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I liked
your show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you do that
everywhere?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
dance however they want me to."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"So
it's always different."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It's
always the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A butterfly, a peacock,
a tiger, a woman."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
dance as a woman?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No,"
he says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
didn't mean--I mean it's okay if you do..."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
closes his eyes, rests his head on the bench back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I just mean that it doesn't
matter."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
he says that, I know he means everything--costumes and clubs, the dancing,
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My chest feels tight and a sting
travels up my nose into my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blink
and look off toward the darkened gift shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I force the rising tightness down with a swallow.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"So
you travel around to different places?" I ask.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
opens his eyes to the high overhead lights, blinking at the brightness.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Mostly
along the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hammond, Shea City,
Ocean Park."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
want to tell him that I've been to Ocean Park, only I imagine Jared laughing on
his rock, ebullient as sunshine riding the crest of waves.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"So
you live by the shore."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Hammond."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel yawns.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
looks out across the terminal through the glass doors to the bus port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sit in silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five minutes pass on a great round wall
clock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am suddenly bone tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel immaterial, unreal, sitting here, as
if either the bench or my body has vanished.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
closes his eyes again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I just want
to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no dreams."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What
do you dream about?" I ask.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
doesn't answer right away, but he puts his hands over his closed eyelids, rubs
them slowly.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
ocean," he says, finally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"And
this man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see him on the breakwater at
nightfall, and I have this feeling of repeating as if I've been meeting him
there forever, but I can only really remember this one time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is quiet and he smiles at me
before he leaves like our meeting is some fabulous secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later in the dream I come back, but he’s not
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spend a whole night of dreams
looking for him."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
sits forward, looks at his watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
eyes are red and moist.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
diesel hiss of a Greyhound bus washes over us like an iron splash.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"My
train will be here soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let's go
outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm going to fall asleep if I
don't get some air."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
go up the stairs and out to the platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At three o'clock we hear the dissonant trumpet of his train.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Will
you be back up here again?" </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah,
they asked me to come back this summer."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Good,
I hope I'll see you then."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
nods.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Silver
steel flashes under the platform lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The train slows to a stop.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It
was nice meeting you."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You too man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thanks for the company," Angel says, and he puts his hand on my
shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
whole torso warms with pride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish it
were daylight and that the platform were full of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b> walk quickly back through the city to
beat the dawn, not because Jared rises early, but because I must lay this night
to rest while there is still an hour or two of cleansing sleep, before it
latches on to daylight.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
hundred yards from the underpass, I realize that I have left Jared alone on a
pallet most of the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hot sweat
breaks out on my forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walk
faster.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
sleeps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel my insides loosen, a
warmth flowing toward the exposed flesh on the back of his neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fire is dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wood smoke hangs heavy in the damp early
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I vault the concrete blocks
silently, like a gymnast swinging over a pommel horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find the end of the blanket and slide up to
Jared's back and put my arms around him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hug him fiercely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
shifts and clears his throat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rubs
his chin into the back of my hand and says, "Love you, Salvy."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
know," I whisper back.</div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">II</b></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O</b>n the second Saturday in May, we scale
the floodwall and sit beside the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jared is dangerous near water.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"...Or
we can stay with my sister in Easton by the lake," he says, planning for
summer.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
one who's cool about us?" I ask.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Which
other one?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared's eyes narrow and
his lips clamp. </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Right,"
I tell him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It
wouldn't be Ocean Park, but we could stay there for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it's pretty in the woods, except for the
bugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could take night swims,"
he says, smiling at the river, which holds the place of the lake in his
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
the last six days the sky has run clear and blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mornings are cool and shocking with sudden
green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By afternoon the heat rises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I play with the buttons on my shirt and think
about undoing them, but winter has made me shy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Within an hour it is too cool to justify the desire to undress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plant my hands and lean back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long grass tickles my palms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Allie
says the water's warm by the end of June.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We can take the bus as far as Wakefield and she'll pick us up there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it would do us good to get away,
don't you?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yes,"
I say, looking up through bursts of golden buds and dark branches to the sky,
but I know no matter where he goes memory follows him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But, I’d rather it didn’t involve your
family.”</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
summer we met, Jared took me to his family's Fourth of July picnic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember the walk across the lawn, the
smell of charred blood and meat, bottle rockets whistling skyward in the
background, how everything stopped, but got busy.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Does
anybody want another burger?" Raymond, the brother, asked heading for the
grill, where he stayed doggedly burning beef and chicken from behind a
shimmering transparent curtain of smoke and heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared's oldest sister Claire went inside for
a pencil and paper to write down her aunt's recipe for Mexican dip.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
stayed close to Jared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never stood
back or hid my eyes from them, not even from his father, who sat hunkered in
his armchair staring out at the lake.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Mom,
Dad, this is my friend, Salvatore."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mrs.
Swallow stood and smiled like a portrait, extending the back of her hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Swallow grunted from his chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I held out my hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never took it, and I put it away in my
pants pocket, like an obscene photograph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Across the lake a cherry bomb thundered.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The younger sister,
Allison, came up and gave us each a hug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jared held her tightly.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"That's
my brother over there," Jared said softly, his nostrils flaring, eyes
blinking.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
little later, Jared took me in to see the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the family room his father had taken down
the glass case with all of Jared's track and baseball trophies from high school
and college and had replaced it with some of Claire's boisterous floral
paintings.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
just stared at the paintings for a while, as if the wall were blank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His face turned scarlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn't curse or talk at all, but he left
me there and went down the hall to his old room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came out hugging an open box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old trophies jutted out at odd angles like
the uprooted skyscrapers of a portable city.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
took the box out to the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Go
around and talk to Allie," he said, pushing the box across the seat, his
arced, slender back turned to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
slid in next to the trophies and shut the door.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
he came out back again, he was silent and expressionless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allison was telling me about growing up on
the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared didn't add a word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In about fifteen minutes, he leaned over and
whispered, "Let's go."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
he’d stood up and left without saying goodbye to anyone.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
he goes silent and balls his hands up in his lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Do you have to shit your pants every
time I mention your family," I say, tearing at the grass around my feet
and tossing it into the breeze.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
know what could happen if I go on, but today I have nothing to lose and
everything to gain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm giving him one
more chance.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Don't,
Salvy," Jared says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Don't
what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell the truth?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
puts his hands together over the bridge of his nose, another prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tonight when I try to make up with him on the
pallet he will turn away and say that I was cruel. </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Look,"
I say, “either go on with your life, or go crawling back to your bedroom
closet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it's not too late to get
your trophies back up on the wall."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
looks up at me, tears starting in his eyes.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"They're
never going to accept you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get over
them, or leave me out of it," I say.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
high school and college Jared was golden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had so much parental love pumping through his veins, that when he
brought me, his first love, home that Independence Day, a pure part of him
never dreamed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he could do anything to
change that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
weeps into his hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look down at my
grass-stained fingers.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wind
blows off the river, shaking loose a shower of candescent green-gold flowers on
our heads and clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A crow lands on
the floodwall behind us.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
wipes his tears, and then wipes his hands on his pant legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a long time he stares out at the river.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Salvy?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What,
Jared."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Are
you going to leave me?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
crow shifts its feet on the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's
neck juts forward.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What
kind of question is that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm trying to
help you get past your fear."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It
sounded more like an ultimatum."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You're
so afraid of everything, no matter what I say it sounds like the end of the
world to you."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It's
just that--"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared swallows the
quaver in his voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I get a
feeling and I can't help it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, if
you're trying to help, why does it make me more afraid?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
don't know."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
picks a gold flower cluster from his pant leg and puts it to his nose.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What
would make you feel better?" I ask.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
don't know."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But
you do."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I throw up a knot of grass
I've twisted together.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
says, "You're always telling me to accept things the way they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could accept that I'm afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People have fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or don't you want to know that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that ruins your fantasy?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
stares at me; his eyes focus the way they do when he talks about homerun
hitters he struck out in college.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"So
now I'm just one more thing that makes you afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You weren't afraid to take me home to your
family three years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You weren't
ashamed of me then."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm
not ashamed of you now," he says, shaking his dull, tangled hair.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Then
just let it go:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your family, the myth of
your golden adolescence, the whole snapshot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Talk about fantasies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you
really expect me to hang around the lake on holidays with mom and dad, just to
be ignored like a freak, or despised like some criminal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus, let them go."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
stares into his lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Then what
will I hold on to?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
crow lurches forward, caws and spreads it shining black wings in flight toward
the river.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
presses the gold flower cluster to his nose again, throws it down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I can't ever figure out what this smell
reminds me of."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
shake my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My future follows an
untraceable arc, shot across impossible trajectories to the distant silhouette
of a man, to a universe undaunted by pasts, atomized hope; Jared waits for
something cyclic, the restoration of rooms and trophy cases, for some
recurrence of the past lived out in even greater glory, as the second advent is
to the first.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
edge of the floodwall's shade inches towards us with that invisible melting
motion of shadow on a sundial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sit,
separated by ideal extremes, and let the shade cover us.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Don't
you love me anymore, Salvy?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Is
that it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that what you want to
hear?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you something, Jared,
if I thought it would do any good, if it would make you happy, I'd tattoo it on
my forehead."</div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>hat evening while it was still warm
and light outside, I left Jared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
wind had dropped, and the high clouds had run smoothly into the rippling shapes
that recur in sand, ocean waves and in the body, like signs of an old,
unfulfillable covenant between the world and our desires.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
didn't see if Jared cried, but he didn't try to stop me, or follow me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He still has that much grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fell in love at the sight of him dancing on
a rock, tasting sea spray like it was death, a man so full of wonder I swore
he'd never be ashamed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, I had
watched him fall, go from strength to weakness, and I knew that my love would
have gone all the way down with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They say you will die if you ever fall and hit bottom in your own dream.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
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</div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">III</b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>he club is easy to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pass through the center of Hammond and
follow a sign for Shore Points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy
Blues comes at the end, just before the city limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
search for Angel and push against a tide of clean fragrant bodies, but motion
ruins my focus, the way reaching into water obscures the shiny stone before it
can be plucked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slip out of the stream
and up a ramp to the back bar, where I can view the dance floor and sort out
faces.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
new song starts, music that is like a trickle of water on crystal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bodies move toward the dance floor, pulled
irresistibly, like small objects drawn across a tabletop by strong vibrations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men turn lithely at the hips and shoulders;
they raise their hands as the singer calls down rain and sky, eyes shining with
belief for the duration of a song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
lean over the railing.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
familiar warmth spreads on my right shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I turn around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel stands
behind me, his hand resting as it had when we parted at the station.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Angel."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smile, stand up straight and hold out my
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He opens his arms, embraces me and
kisses my neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel awe with him, the
kind of seduction that takes hold of you in dreams.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"How
you doing, man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salvatore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
remembered." </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
puts one foot on the low railing and grips the top bar with both hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turn also to face the dance floor, but I
stay inclined toward him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What
brings you here?" he asks, scanning the crowd before he looks at me.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I've
been wanting to come back to the shore for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stayed at Ocean Park for a week one
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years ago."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Well,
I'm glad you made it back," he says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Are
you dancing tonight?" I ask.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No,
thank God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm just meeting some
friends."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Across
the club two men wave to him from a table.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Speak
of the devils," Angel says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Come and sit with us."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
follow him down the ramp through the heavy stream of bodies around the dance
floor to where they sit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
of the men has Angel's complexion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
slender, but round-faced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wears large
owl glasses and a thread of a mustache along his upper lip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other has ivory-colored skin and long,
dusty brown hair.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You're
late, Angel," the one with glasses says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Eli said, if you were any later he was gonna kick your ass all
over the dance floor."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
laughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"How much later?" </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Eli
snaps his fingers and bobs his neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Five minutes and your ass was history."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
guess I'm lucky, then," Angel says, taking Eli's hand and kissing it.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
one with glasses holds out his hand to me.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm
Ozzie," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Angel,
you're so rude, you don't even introduce your friend."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Sorry,
man," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"This is
Salvatore."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Sal,"
I tell them.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
shake hands with them.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
pulls a couple of chairs over from an empty table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sit down.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"So
where do you live, Sal?" Eli asks.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"In
Hartsfield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An underpass by the
river."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lean over the table to be
heard.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
love underpasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They're so
gothic," Eli says with a wave of his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"It seems you have to go to larger cities, though, to find the best
ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would never live in the ones
down here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm in an abandoned
mill."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Not
for me," Ozzie says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Too much
arson."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
like fire."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eli says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His small lips plump together.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'll
take a culvert any day," Ozzie says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Cozy
until it floods."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Then
I bum a night off Negron," he says, brushing Angel's arm.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yes,
Angel's lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has a room at the
Cheap Sleep," Eli says, lighting up a cigarette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The owner's very fond of him."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
chases a pretzel crumb on the table with his finger.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
already knew that he was lucky, with his beauty for shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would do his shows and no matter what
became of him, he would always have that much shelter.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Some
nights when I can't sleep," Ozzie says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"I just walk until I can't stay awake anymore."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
meet some scary people walking at night," Angel says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Eli
claps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Oz, tell them about that
guy last week." </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah,
I was walking near the edge of town, it must have been 1 AM and this big black
man comes weaving down the sidewalk talking to himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So as I'm going by he sways a little towards
me but all he says is, ‘What's up man.’</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Then
he stops and says, ‘Hey.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I'm
thinking, here it comes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's going to
ask me for money or something and then he's going to get pissed off when I
don’t give him none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you know what
he said?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at me like he didn't
know what was coming out of his mouth next, and asks me, do I eat breakfast
sausage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so jumpy, I just said,
no, really quick and kept walking."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Eli
says, "I would have said, yes, but not yours."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
think that’s what he meant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of
the night, I just kept wondering what would have happened if I'd said
yes."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
stands up, ruffles Ozzie's head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I
need some air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You guys want to go over
to Ocean Park for a while?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You're
not even going to dance with me?" Eli says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"We'll
be back before closing."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Count
me out," Ozzie says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Sal?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let's go."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ozzie
and Eli stand up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel hugs and kisses
them goodbye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kisses Ozzie on the
lips and neck, holds him for a moment, eyes closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he turns to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ozzie watches him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Nice
to meet you, Sal," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he
leans in, mouth to my ear, and whispers, "Stay with him."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blush and nod quickly, but I'm not sure what
he means.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Dance
with me, Oz," Eli says, pointing his cigarette toward the dance
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's our song," he
tells me, taking Ozzie's hand.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>he iron marquee over the gate is
strung askew with lights that glow against the night like a constellation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behind it Ocean Park dazzles in midair, its
wheeling white lights held together in perpetual loops and spirals by the laws
of physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The high spine of Leviathan
arches in the distance over arcades and spinning rides, as if it will rise up
soon from the beach and trample everything.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
and I head over to the food booths.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
hungry?" he says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Starving."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I peer over red countertops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mounds of sausage, peppers and onions shimmer
on the grills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pizza cheese bubbles, runs
in little molten streams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aroma of
fried dough and shoestring potatoes hangs in a greasy mist.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What
do you want?" he asks.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
don't know."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"My
papi used to tell me, when you eat out, make sure you get the one thing you
really want."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel leans one elbow
on the counter and rests the other one on my shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I never listened to him, and I always
ended up eating some of everything and feeling sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you want?" he says again.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Some
of everything."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Okay,"
he says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm
kidding."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Come
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My treat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I danced my ass off last night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm crack-head rich."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives a little laugh.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
orders and pays for the food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks
good under the bright florescent lights, but I wonder if we can eat it
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blush, as we pile plates of
sausage, pizza and fried dough, balance them on our forearms, nestle the red
and white checked baskets of beef kabob and french fries in the crooks of our
elbows, and somehow hold large clear cups of soda in our hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walk quickly to the nearest bench, plates
shifting, soda spilling as we go.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
arrange the food between us and feed silently on the pizza, fried dough and
shoestrings fries.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Feel
this shit clogging your arteries," Angel says, sitting back, satisfied, a
hand on his chest, as if it were a desired state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His eyes possess the same sleepy cool of his voice.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
beef is tough, and every mouthful is harder to swallow than the last.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm
stuffed," I tell him, dropping the half-eaten kabob into an empty plate.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
haven't had any sausage."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel looks
disappointed.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
can't even look at it," I tell him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"What would your papi say about that?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"If
I asked for it, he'd make me eat it."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
sit for a while as the food settles to our stomachs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we can breathe and move again, we head
down the midway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
are basketballs to shoot into deceptively small hoops, darts games, beanbags to
throw at tin jugs, frogs to flip into plastic swamp lilies, duck shoots, and
the ring toss.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Test
your skill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One ring wins," the
barker repeats his challenge with the incantatory dullness of a priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is early in the season and the crowd is
sparse, players are few.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
prizes, huge stuffed pandas and brontosauruses, hang down over rows of tall
brown bottles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel goes over, stands
examining the bottlenecks and the size of the rings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He leans forward, licking his lower lip.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Five
rings for a dollar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One ring wins,"
the barker says through his cigarette.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Ten
rings, please," Angel says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
know this is impossible," I tell him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I’ll
pray to Saint Jude," he says, with a little lift of his eyebrows.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
tosses one hundred rings, all of which clink and tumble down between the
bottles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three or four people have
gathered around the ring toss, fascinated with his obsession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gets more desperate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Just five more rings," he
says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look down at my feet.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
stands there for a minute, after the last ring falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The barker looks away and starts to collect
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Test your skill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One ring wins,” he says to the onlookers.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Come
on," I take Angel's arm and turn him around.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
disembodied girlish chorus shrieks across the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little shiver tickles my neck.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Leviathan,"
Angel says with teeth.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b>n the incandescent belly of Leviathan,
our blue jeans turn violet, and Angel's shirt glows white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We strap ourselves into the front car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An attendant locks the bars in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another man pushes a tall lever forward and
we start clicking up the track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We look
at each other, grinning like children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My stomach flutters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our thighs
touch.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Halfway
up the long first hill, Angel says, "No hands."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Okay."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
catch a whiff of salt water and look out at the dark, glittering Atlantic.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
car clicks to a stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone is
silent.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
we plunge, hands raised, stomachs at our feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mouth is frozen open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear
Angel laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We bank hard, snap right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bodies press together and our feet get
crossed.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
second drop is straight and bottomless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are jerked up, around a tight curve into a spiral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nobody else in the car now, just
Angel and me, winged, raised arms tossing like branches, flying as we fall,
laughing at the same death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
clatter around the last turn and then Leviathan's crimped tail whips us to the
ground again, out of breath.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shouts
erupt, cheers and clapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bars
unlock and everyone gets out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the
last ones into the exit tunnel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Leviathan's winding bowel.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Let's
go on again," I say.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
shakes his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's better to
leave when you still want more." </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
Angel touches my arm, rubs his fingers over the hairs on my wrist, not even the
ground under my feet feels solid.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W</b>e make it back to Boy Blue's in time
for last call. </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ozzie
and Eli are gone, or there are so many people now that we could never find them
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dance floor is jammed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men are dancing everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smoke rises up like fog to the metal
warehouse rafters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colored light beams
spin, or white ones blip in lightning flashes that throw the dancers into slow
motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel vibrations in my
knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The music is five times louder
than before.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Angel,"
someone says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three more of his friends
pass by us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Hey,"
Angel shouts above the music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They each
kiss him on the cheek before they are carried away in the slow current of the
crowd.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
beat changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An exaggerated cheer goes
up, as if they have all been waiting for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Foot stamping builds around a sweet operatic chord progression and
swells like the sound of a walking giant.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
British voice begins to croon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"So
long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodni-ight; I hate to go and leave this
pretty si-ight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, you know I
hate to go, its gauche to stay on past the show..."</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dancers sway, turn in unison and stomp
with the other foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cheering grows
more manic.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a li-ie;
I flit, I float, I quickly flee, I fly-y.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm glad to go, I flit, I float.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t stay too long and miss your boat..."</i></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
and I stomp, turn and flap our arms with everybody else.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Near
the end, the men make little bows, the drag queens curtsey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little motif repeats, a loopy variation of
the one to which Von Trapp children once marched off to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody waves goodbye as they file out into
the night.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>he motel keeper snores behind the
counter of the Cheap Sleep, one curling ear aglow, veined and translucent as a
fetus in the lamplight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel sneaks me
in and we go quietly past on green indoor-outdoor carpeting.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"This
looks like miniature golf," I tell him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
smiles, puts a finger to his lips and stops in front of room eighteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel slides the key out of his pocket, fits
it in the lock.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
slip in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shuts the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light from the strip glows around the closed
curtains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel moves to the nightstand
by the twin bed and turns the lamp on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The bedspread is dull blotchy blue like the curtains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The carpet is dingy beige.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
sits down on the edge of the bed facing the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit near the foot of the bed, one leg up on
it, so that I'm facing him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
a while, I say, "Ozzie's all right."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Oz
is cool," Angel says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Are
he and Eli together," I ask.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
looks at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"They used to be; now
they're just friends."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Why
do you think that is?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
looks at the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It just worked
out better that way," he says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Outside,
a horn blares and modulates down as the car passes.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
kicks off his shoes, swings his legs up onto the bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sit facing each other.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Are
you with anyone?" I ask, tracing the hourglass nylon stitching on the
spread with both index fingers.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No,"
he says, as if it were unfathomable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"You?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
was, but I'm not anymore."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel
color flooding my neck and cheeks.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"What
happened?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
shake my head and start to gesture with my hands, as if words will somehow come
out of them.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Trying
to live in two worlds is what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You try to bring them together and the stronger one always wins."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"And
your world lost."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Nothing
could measure up to his glorious past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fastballs, trophies and family pride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m just a part of the imperfect present, the sad decline of Jared
Swallow."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
looks down into the hollow of his cross-legged sit.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
said it was better to wander like invisible truth than to stand in the open
feeling like a dirty lie," I tell him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
looks at me, as if he has an embarrassing middle name and I have guessed
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He leans forward, holding both hands
out to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulls me toward him, and I walk the bed on
my knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His hands slide under my arms
along my rib cage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kisses me once,
eyes closed, his upper lip pulling gently on my lower lip.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
sink down side-by-side and stretch out on the mattress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pull him close and hold him. </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It
works out better this way," I say, smiling.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
doesn't smile back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let him go and he
turns on his back, staring up at the ceiling.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But
you still love him," he says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"That's
not it though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn't change the
facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, of course I do,
but--"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Is
he your first?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel turns his
head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plane of his face in
semi-profile, from jaw- bone to forehead, is almost flat like a cliff.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
could say that," I tell him.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Jesus,
it seems so long ago, like another life, since my first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I'm living in dog years."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He laughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His dusky eyelids lift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I
bet that's why dogs can't look you in the eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every one of our years they age seven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You get old fast that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They're temporary, man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know
their place."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
faint Latin accent and the forward pull of his lips when he speaks are like an
invitation to kiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reach under his
shirt and touch his smooth belly. </div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
think you love once," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"And when that's over, you walk up and down the street where you
found it hoping it will come back to you again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And when it doesn't you pretend to find it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like trying to find God in church on Sunday."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at me solemnly and says, “If you
still love him…”</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
for a while we say nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
sound from the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clock says a
quarter past three.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
says, "We'd better get some sleep."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He sits up on the edge of the bed again and takes off his socks and his
shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sits there for a while,
shoulders hunched, as if he cannot decide what comes next.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Are
you all right?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
says, "Sal, what do you think of me?"</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
sit up and rub his back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I think
you're beautiful, so beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
funny and cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really like
you--."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But,
you really don't know me," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
turns off the lamp and finishes undressing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I take off my clothes and we get under the covers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a few moments he holds me and we
kiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel the silky wetness behind
his lips.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
spoon him, press my body to his back, kissing the close-cropped hair on his
neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His skin is the temperature of
warm food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I press my full swell into
the cleft of his behind, feel the velvet of tiny hairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His breath escapes like steam.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
wet my fingers in my mouth and reach down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He opens up for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spit in my
hand, wet my cock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My heart is pounding
crazily and I can hardly breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I push
in all the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kiss his neck and head
again, until it is not enough to taste him with my lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take his flesh between my teeth and I begin
to rock my hips slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grasp the
slight mounds of his chest and pull, as if to tear them from his sternum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel throws his head in equine spasm, baring
his slender throat to my teeth.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b> awaken to a dazzle of white walls and
sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The curtains are drawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blink several times and shield my eyes from
the light pouring in the window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Angel
is gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The covers are turned back and
his place on the mattress is cool.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Angel,"
I start to call him, lifting my head, but my throat is dry and my voice
cracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I squint at the wall clock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's after two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lean over his side of the bed; his clothes
are still there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rest my head back on
the pillow and spread my arms out in a stretch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My bladder presses and tightens to a cramp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wait for it to pass and head for the
bathroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I push the door open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
stop cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angel is on his knees, his
back to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man stands in front of
him, mouth open, eyes closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
recognize the ears of the hotel manager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He opens his eyes and Angel turns his head in the same instant.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m
sorry, man,” Angel says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I wanted to
tell you…”</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
step back and close the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gather
my clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pull on my shirt and
pants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stuff my socks into my shoes
and carry them out with me.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;">IV</span></h1>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>here's a moon," Jared says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Let's go swimming."</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
is something about the thought of slow, dark water that is comforting.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Okay,"
I tell him, before the desire leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even then, Jared has to take my hand and lift me.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
the way to the river, he begins to make his odd little noises again, squeaks
and crazy whirly-whoops like a starling in the spring, noises I have almost
forgotten about.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
swim out to the sandbar by Governor's Bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The water is cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ripples
shimmer and overlap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflections of the
bridge lights splinter on the surface, as if the giant bulbs themselves have
dropped and shattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dark mounded
shapes of trees flank the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
almost keep out the roar of the interstate.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jared
glances at me, expectantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We move
apart to find the warm spots over the sand bar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He pushes off with his feet, arms parting water, and coasts over to
where I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He swings his legs out front
and clasps them around my waist and wraps his arms around my chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His warmth covers my back, driving the chill
back into the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He squeezes me and
kisses me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rest my head back against
his shoulder.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Soon
the cold river has us both shivering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
swim back to shore side-by-side, taking our time despite the chill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water is warmer in the shallows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stand up and my feet sink into the velvety
silt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared is up to his ankles in
mud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take his hand and help him onto
the riverbank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night air is warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t dress right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stand and drip for a while and then we lie
down on our blanket, gazing up into the night and listening to the faint
lapping of the river at our feet. </div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do
you think someday we’ll have a place inside?” Jared says.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
imagine houses without trophies or halls of empty pasts, and I see Angel’s
motel room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will it cost us to find
shelter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t know,” I tell him.
“I’ve been inside before, but it was never my place really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve always been outside and so have you.”</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I
know,” Jared says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s strange that I
don’t really care anymore.”</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tonight,
we are alone, continuous as the dark rolling trees along the river, cold-eyed
and vindicated as the stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
know if we were born to underpasses and firelight, born to the elements and the
drone of trouble all around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
there is a strange and wild joy that echoes in the dissonant night trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wakes you out of a dead sleep, thunders
inside of you like a man.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It doesn’t matter—in or out with you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reach around his shoulder, roll him toward
me and cradle his head on my chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
feels good, the precise, remembered fit of our embrace, sign of a covenant
between the body and desire.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
The
End</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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If you look
carefully through a full-color nursery catalog these days, you may well come to
the conclusion that the future of the horticultural trade has a huge stake in
the fertile soil of nature’s weird imagination: the color break, the anomaly,
the mutant freak, the lawbreaker and the abnormal individual are essential in
the race for bigger, brighter and bluer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hortibusiness loves the genetic oddball and, apparently, so do we
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you not almost with unnatural
anticipation foresee the day when the first blue Helianthus will nod its cool
cerulean head over late summer gardens?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If such things as
blue sunflowers were ever to occur in nature, none of us would likely live to
see them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But aesthetic whimsy aided by advanced
genetic engineering produced in a few short decades what might have taken
hundreds of years through natural hybridization and careful re-selection, while
the most improbable crosses would never have occurred at all without our
prurient matchmaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plant breeders
have taken evolution into their own hands, leaving little to chance, time and
the imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are directed by an
aesthetic, a market driven one to be sure, where the public taste for large
splashy blooms, double and triple if possible, is one of many factors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s flowers must last longer in a vase
for the florist trade, stand up to wind and rain to keep their appearance in
the garden better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must be made of
stronger stalks and thicker petals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Certain qualities like fragrance and intricate markings, which make them
irresistible to pollinators are often absent from these new hybrids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small wonder considering that many of these
hybrids are sterile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The marketing
genius is that one must buy the seed from the distributor every year, or the
plants themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genetics is big
business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
The scientist is
no longer an empiricist, who carefully and faithfully observes the laws of
nature, the geological record and animal behavior, but the director of creation
itself, or at least its manipulator, who has as his creedo “for the benefit of
humanity” and “better living through chemistry.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But better living for whom and what? </div>
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What this speeded
up evolutionary process may mean is far more startling than a hole in the ozone
layer, climatic shifts, and polluted air and water (the “end of nature” as Bill
McKibben called it) but the complete rejection of nature aesthetically in favor
of a post-natural world.</div>
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If the bird (all
birds ) should become extinct, and that is hardly outside the realm of human
genius (something like 50% of the world’s terrestrial creatures have vanished
in the past 40 years), it is certain that flight will not go extinct with
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only means that birds will
cease to function as our favored metaphor for flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We might speculate, that if the scientist
should decide that the bird is passé, too bothersome to economic growth to keep
around, then perhaps the new masters of evolution will proclaim some flying
machine as the ideal, the very essence of flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All living creatures may become repugnant to
human beings, the way many insects already are—spiders, cockroaches, wasps,
beetles, mosquitoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same way,
institutional humanity has tried to denature human beings (not only steeping
ourselves in a popular progressive view of homosapiens as an advanced
post-natural creature, but also subjecting us to same genetic engineering undergone
by plants), so all creatures must be domesticated in our image or perish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Science, as the
technocracy, might decide that nature is too much of a nuisance after all, and
replace all living creatures with more functional computerized, satellite
operated models of birds--recycled aluminum owls and hawks that hunt down the
remaining rodents and pests that have not already been eliminated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or advanced breeding programs will begin to
domesticate all wildlife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the
success we’ve had with dogs and cats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps natural instinct will be the final frontier of our mastery. </div>
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The question this
raises is whether there will be enough true science, and true humanity, to
prevent the inevitable logic of our post-natural course?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we count on scientists who truly love
what is wild?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is hard to be
optimistic, when nearly all major research is funded by profiteering
corporations and short-sighted economic policies.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
For a very long
time now, wildness has been viewed as something both virginal and obscene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We depend on nature for our sustenance, yet
at a very basic level we mistrust and fear it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whether or not you view human attempts to tame terrestrial wildness in a
positive or negative light, our success is quite possibly only an illusion. The
poisonous stew of toxic waste that saturates the air, water and soil of our
industrial centers is in fact not a controlled substance, but itself a wild
force of natural fury, killing off plant and animal life, altering the quality
of air and water, even our genetic structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If deforestation and fossil fuel emissions are causing climatic changes,
a new kind of wilderness may shortly come upon us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it might be a lifeless kind of wild—with
raging heat, and dust storms, or another ice age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wildness is everywhere in the universe,
exclusive of life, it is “civilization” that is the exception.</div>
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Because we are so
steeped in the minutia of our own time, so very conscious of ourselves and of
our history, we could never be reconciled to the scale and pace of evolutionary
time:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it’s infinite patience, the painfully
slow advance and retreat of glaciers, the millennia of micro-evolution that
eventually crawls to the precipice, the leaping off point for the inception of
wildly different forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rapid
changes in the world over the last two hundred years, points to the human
consciousness as the new seat of evolutionary intelligence, one that does not
work through the processes of nature, but works upon nature, altering,
suspending, tweaking natural law into submission at a breakneck pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As living
organisms, we have not changed much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
natural results of our lives on earth are more or less like those of all other
creatures: we copulate, bear offspring, or fail to bear offspring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything else we do in life--besides
eating, sleeping, eliminating, and dying--is unnatural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting dressed in the morning is perhaps the
greatest perversion of natural intent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, representing socialized behaviors as natural, while presenting
natural behaviors as perverted is one of the hallmarks of civilized hubris, and
the surest sign that humankind is truly alienated from nature.</div>
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Emblematic in
labeling of socially unacceptable behaviors as unnatural is the view that same
sex love is outside of nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must
be said, that this likens it to every other activity, mode of production, or
recreation that humans are involved in, besides those few essentials I listed
above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the one hand, same sex love
produces nothing in the procreative sense, beyond the old-fashioned marriage of
convenience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, same sex
love requires nothing unnatural, no institutional framework laden with economic
incentives to exist, no apparatus other than the human faculty and body for its
apprehension and enjoyment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It continues
to appear in human society, as it has over and over again in virtually every society
across the ages, including many animal species, despite often severe social
penalties inflicted for its practice and a strong religious zeal to stamp it
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Efforts to change it are the
product of social pressure and behavioral suppression, the failure of which over
thousands of years points to an immutability in this form of attraction
indicative of natural origin (at least under our old definition of
natural).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the effort to punish
it and root it out comes from the social order, which is highly mutable over
time and place, the efforts of society in this direction must be seen for what
they are:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>opposition to the natural
order.</div>
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If there is really
only one category of sexual desire, and gays and lesbians are really confused
or just perverse heterosexuals deep down, then the idea of choice is a
double-edged sword for these social engineers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For, if sexual behavior can be changed in either direction on a whim or
by relational dysfunction, then sexual behavior is either not strictly natural
(using our earlier definition of nature as an immutable law or force), or it is
not naturally strict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is to say it
is naturally fluid.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, our journey to the post-natural
world would not be complete without a battle over semantics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m afraid natural, like the word democracy,
is used to describe anything deemed to be good, while unnatural, like
socialism, has become widely synonymous with anything we wish to label as bad
or harmful, despite the fact that socialist democracies are the norm in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing empirical, or even rational,
about these cultural designations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There is a
metaphoric ratcheting for control over language and meaning in the battle over
the future of nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the world of
food production, the battle between political progressives and corporate
profiteers goes on full tilt over exploitive and environmentally destructive
practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The closest most of us come
to the front lines is reading the labels on the grocery shelves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know about free range chickens, grass fed
beef, organic produce, mad cow disease and fair trade coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Seventy years ago,
the so called greatest generation had just finished waging one war, and wasn’t
about to start another one over the advent of highly processed foods, even if
this new food had little to do with the real thing it had replaced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grape flavored, cheese flavored, chocolate
flavored seemed like harmless enough designations for the unsophisticated and
dutiful survivors of depression and world war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Flavor is flavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People gobbled
it up without the slightest qualm that what they were eating was unnatural,
possibly antithetical to health and life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the language of food production, the word natural only means that a
particular product, such as peanut butter, is made mainly of ground peanuts and
perhaps salt with no additives; while other kinds of peanut butter not deemed
natural may be whipped up with hydrogenated oils, lard, sugar and preservatives
that give it a constantly smooth texture and make it possible to store it in
the kitchen cabinet rather than the refrigerator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The existence of this heavily processed food,
overloaded with additives and sweeteners, serves both aesthetics and
convenience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not need
refrigeration, keeps for months, is always smooth, easy to spread, and pleasing
to present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the fabulously artificial
1950’s this was the metaphor for post-war optimism that reached into every
corner of American life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the food
we ate had to represent our triumph over all of life’s natural
unpleasantness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But was this kind of
unnatural selection, this survival of the aesthetically pleasing, this
obsession with appearances, a healthy thing?</div>
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Now, we know that
the word natural does not speak to methods of growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These days, we have organic produce that
supposedly does not use commercial fertilizers and pesticides in its
production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have since learned that
in order to be truly organic, it must say 100% certified organic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to most people organic is a metaphor for
“healthy” and in some circles it means “self-righteous”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natural, though, is more widely mistrusted in
supermarkets as it now has been exposed as a fraudulent claim of
healthfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organic without the
proper qualifiers has also been exposed as a deception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this highly artificial world, everything
is deprived of its explicit, objective meaning in favor of a rapidly evolving
cultural relevance, wherein an object holds briefly a transitory value (either
positive or negative) in its role as a commodity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Medical science and big business (the
technocracy) is largely responsible for this day to day shift in the relative
meaning and value of every day objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One day soy products are cancer fighters, the next day a new study
proclaims that the isoflavins in some soy products may result in some form of
brain degeneration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More recently, soy
has been determined to have estrogenic properties and men should be cautious
about over-consumption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result is a
deep unsettling and mistrust of everything in the objective world, even the
very natural and seemingly harmless soybean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We don’t know from day to day where we stand in relation to a particular
edible, an activity, environment or pattern of consumption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The capitalist/democratic impulse of competing
interests has turned choice into a pathology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mark that soon Consumer Anxiety Disorder will be heralded as the latest
disease, with an etiology of unbalanced brain chemistry in the presence of
unparalleled consumer options and internet dependency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will lead to a new line of anti-CAD
drugs, which with their characteristically paradoxical side effects, will
create yet another trigger for consumer anxiety disorder—or sleeping-walking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes on without end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will soy save me from cancer, or will it rot
my brain?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will my driver side airbag
keep me safe in a crash or will it suffocate me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do radio waves from cell phone towers really
cause cancer or don’t they?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I get too
little sleep will I fail at school?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I
get too much sleep will I shave 5 years off the end of my life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This perpetual state of doubt, anxiety and
confusion, intentional or not, is proof of our fanatical devotion to
technology, and to technology’s whimsical application in the service of
commerce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the deadly combination of
confusion and absolute faith makes further manipulation possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the “true” answer is out there, surely
just a matter of more research dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Much like Christian converts, who struggle daily for the assurance that
the blood of Jesus has washed away their sins, so the cult of
technology wavers from moment to moment between righteousness and sin, joy and
weeping, fear and thankfulness, hope and despair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The technocracy is the author and finisher of
our faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are poised on the
precipice waiting to take the ultimate evolutionary leap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heady flight over the abyss of our own
mortality toward a post-natural world.</div>
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On the other hand,
it could be that our status as living organisms necessitates that our industry
also must be considered natural results of evolution’s unconscious choice of
consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this pragmatic view,
the skyscraper and the desert butte are natural results of evolutionary
process; the city canyons of New York and Tokyo are just another natural
pattern echoing the Grand Canyon; the scientific laboratory is as much the seat
of creation as the ecosystem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps
more so, as we wait, deceptively poised in evolutionary time, in the front car
of creation’s roller coaster, able to detect in our limited perspective only
the lightning quick jerk of our own unnatural mechanisms, not the slow,
infinitesimal grinding of the glaciers, or the turning of planetary
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lumbering hands and drive, faster toward the amber palisades of the Kingdom,
dreaming the world over again as we ride.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So
I stand there, picking lint out of the deep corners of my pants pockets with my
fingertips, waiting for him to tell me what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He turns from the bench and walks past me up
the steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I follow him.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once
we're outside, he stops on the sidewalk, looking toward the shed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mouth opens and closes once before he
speaks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His upper lip, peppered with the
hard stubble my mother hates, puffs out from a silent burp.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"There
in the shed," he says, "get a piece of that brown carpet to lay under
the car."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stops and turns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Get that foam mat instead."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
hesitate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm thinking foam: white,
soft, thick.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
foam?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
knows I'm not seeing it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It's
standing up against the wall against the tarp."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now,
I remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw it this morning when I
went for the lawn mower, only it was rubber--black rubber--not foam.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rubber one."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah,
get that one."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>he silver Chrysler is jacked-up,
blocked under the wheels so that it won't roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Feel
the grooves there?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old man
moves his hand away, so I can feel it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yeah."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
shoe's scored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've got to sand down
the grooves."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
shows me how to fold the sandpaper into a neat three inch square that measures
the width of the brake shoe, and then how to sand, butting the paper into the
crease and keeping even pressure.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
sands for a few minutes before he gives me the paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to do exactly what he does, try to hold
it the same way, but the angle I'm at makes my motion side to side instead of
up and down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I sand, slowly, pressing
harder as I get in rhythm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a
minute, my stare goes blank and my eyes cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The paper slips out of my hand.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Oops."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ears burn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I pick up the sandpaper and try it with my right hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The angle is easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's how it is with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I do naturally never works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once when we changed the oil, I turned the
filter wrench the wrong way, and the old man said I did everything
backwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he'd added, like a
consolation, that maybe it was because I'm left-handed.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Hold
on," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Let's take a
look."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I'm
glad to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My fingers feel stiff and
the pad of my thumb aches.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
blows the gray filings away and feels the silver shoe for grooves with the
three fingers of his left hand—its index finger lost two years ago to the
lawnmower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he looks up, as though
he can see right through the fender.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"In
the cellar," he begins, and I know what's coming.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now,
it starts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It always comes to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like I have to go again.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
old cellar?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take up the
ritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I think he knows,
before he even sends me, I'm not going to find what I’m looking for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he sends me anyway. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
new cellar," he says, slowly now, making diagrams with his hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"In the second drawer--"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Second
from what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if they're numbered.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"--You'll
see the sandpaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the 120 on the
back?" he unfolds the one we're using and shows me the number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"We need a coarser grit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You follow me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See if there's a sheet of 80 grit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think there's some that's been used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring that."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoFooter" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>he new cellar smells of sweet, dry
sawdust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pull on the metal chain and
the front half of the room lights up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is where my father does woodwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The table saw stands in the middle of the floor like a steel butcher's
block in one of those modern kitchens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
look around the room for drawers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is the antique cabinet where the Simonize and Turtle Wax wait nestled in
cheesecloth for the autumn polish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a single drawer below the lattice doors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I search there for the sandpaper, though he never said anything about
the cabinet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's something I do
instinctively--looking in the odd place before the obvious one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't know why I do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, there is no sandpaper in the
drawer, only rags, dowels and long forgotten tools, parts that sink to the
bottom like stones in water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back
when I was eight or nine I found a washer in the ocean and wondered how
out-of-place things got to be where they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I tossed the shiny disk into deep water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about its fall to the sunless
bottom, that it might never be found again, when finding in itself was so
miraculous, and I’d wished I hadn’t done it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All
of a sudden, I feel I've been down in the cellar for an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I go across to the desk, catch myself going
for the left-hand drawer.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It's
the second drawer you want, stupid," I say aloud.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Still,
I feel a little flutter in my stomach as I pull the handle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sandpaper lies in staggered piles throughout
the drawer, some creased and worn, some in crisp new rectangles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shuffle through one stack looking for the
number 80 on the undersides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The touch
of it sends a shiver through my neck and shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are two brand new sheets of the 80
grit, but no used ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take one and
close the drawer, tug the metal chain.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
"There
weren't any used ones," I tell him, presenting my find, letting him know I
hadn't forgotten what he'd said.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
folds the sandpaper, takes out his Swiss army knife and cuts the paper in half
down the crease.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Go
inside and see if you can find my work glasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are the wrong ones," he says, handing me the case with his
reading glasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had the wrong
glasses on also the night he lost his finger.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
problem is the old man has four or five pair of glasses floating around the
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's always one in the
Chrysler, wedged between the crack in the front seat or clipped to the driver's
side visor, at least two on the kitchen counter beside his chair, and one more,
along with the occasional empty decoy case, down on the new cellar bench.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Not
the safety glasses?" I ask.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"My
work glasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, the
bifocals."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
decide to check the kitchen first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
mother is in the living-room reading the Bible, her mouth tucked in at the
corners, as though she's trying to siphon invisible sustenance from those
bone-dry pages.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
looks up and asks, "What are you looking for?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"His
work glasses," I tell her, cheerfully.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">S</b>o far I'm three for three: the rubber
mat, the sandpaper and the eyeglasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We finish sanding down the shoes on the left wheel to the old man's
satisfaction.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
replace the tire, lower the jack and move to the other side of the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fit the tire iron over one of the lugs and
give a good pull.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other way," the old
man shouts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blood burns in the pores of
my face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stop and try to turn the nut
the other way, but it won't budge.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I
can't--"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Give
me that."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He yanks the wrench out
of my hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I flinch, thinking he might
hit me with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn't.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hasn't hit me in years.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"You
stupid bastard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can't do the simplest
thing," he starts making his speech to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
picture an invisible cloud bank where all his cursing gathers in the air, a
kind of pollution that circles and settles down, not into rivers and soil, but
in the ears and heads of sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It falls
on you as you walk, on your spirit, in sudden, unexplainable bad feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are fine one minute, and the next you
feel sick and worthless.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Go
in the shed and get the WD40," he orders me, gritting and yanking the tire
iron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"If it's not there, look in
the cellar."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
go quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me shudder to turn
my back on him when he's angry, as though his eyes, like the blade of his army
knife, might savage my spine.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
is no WD40 in the shed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've looked on
and under every shelf three times, looked until I don't trust my eyes to see
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just keep scanning.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Damn
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where are you?" </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
give up and run across the yard and down the bulkhead stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really have to use the bathroom now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There's
a can of WD40 on the top shelf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reach
up and pull it down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's much too
light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shake it and spray, but nothing
comes out.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
curse and start to ramble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Why
does this always happen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it's here, why can't I see it?"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
spot another can on the counter above the trays of nuts and washers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take the can and run up the stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the light I see that the nozzle is broken
off.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I go through the porch to the
hall bathroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit on the toilet and
push, but nothing comes out.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No,
he can't remember the time I found his keys in the bushes," I mutter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think about the time I found that pair of
glasses he lost burying leaves in the garden, and that little spring I found in
the grass, the one that popped out of his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You’d think he'd remember that?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
hear my name screamed in blood choler from the front yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the sound of his voice, you'd think the
car had collapsed on him.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
he lost his finger he'd hardly made a sound at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a gasp of surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said, "Oh, my finger."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother and I, working beside him on that
lousy green and red junk lawnmower, both looked up to see him holding a slurry
red stump of skin and pulp in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He kept us calm and he knew just what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had my brother make a tourniquet and drive
him to the hospital, while my two sisters and I searched the front lawn on our
hands and knees for his finger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
covered every inch of that yard ten times over, under bushes, in the
flowerbeds, every inch of ground until dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wanted so badly to find his finger for him, but the only trace of it
was a fine splatter of blood on some grass near the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We figured the rest of it was paste stuck to
the underside of the mower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody ever
looked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
mother calls me.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I'm
in the bathroom for God's sake," I shout back.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mom
unlatches the front door and calmly relays my message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pull my pants up and kick the bathroom door
open, so that it smacks the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rush
downstairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm going from cellar to
cellar, cabinet to shelf, workbench to table searching for a simple working can
of WD40, but all I see is Krylon spray paint and Swish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a last defense I grab the can with the
broken nozzle and a clear plastic bottle of the red machine lubricant that
looks like cough syrup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bound up the
steps two at a time.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
old man has gotten out from under the car by the time I get there.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"One
can was empty," I start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"And
this one has a broken nozzle."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He glares in disgust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A stream of sweat runs down his temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hold out the squeeze bottle, but he doesn't
take it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stomps off around the corner
of the house, cursing up another invisible cloud.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Good
for nothing, know nothing bastard..."</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
calls me something in Italian too, his favorite expression in the idiom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means "waste of bread". </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W</b>hen I hear the return of his boots on
the sidewalk, I'm idling in front of the car snapping little shoots off the yew
bushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to be doing
something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't let him see me
standing here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I toss the yew, poised
toward the corner of the house like I'm heading somewhere, maybe to see what's
keeping him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the last minute I turn
back, sit down beside the front tire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
pick up the lubricant and squeeze some onto the lug nut, rub it around with my
index finger.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
rounds the corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another shiver
ripples down between my shoulder blades, as though I'm shedding skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I move aside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He lowers himself with a groan and uncaps a new can of WD40.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
the next minute or so I stare at a white pebble caught in the tire tread.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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hands in the bathroom sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like the
industrial strength, invincible fragrance of this stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's the only thing that really takes off the
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Those
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now that all my brothers and sisters have left home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fill our bulky rolls with sausage and
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cheese.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Pass
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for him to lose a part of himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does
he think of it as a lost tool, as something he’ll always miss, something
irreplaceable, like the old cement trowel that was his father's--the one he
claims I threw away while cleaning out the cellar?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to imagine losing him one member at a
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John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-67484404347116230112014-12-25T21:19:00.003-08:002021-05-21T07:06:12.718-07:00 JAMES WOOD GETS RELIGION: TWILIGHT AT THE BROKEN ESTATE (PART II)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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What I have done in Part 1, is to
look at some of James Wood’s statements in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Broken Estate</i>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>statements which in
their boldness, Amardeep Singh acknowledges, practically invite disagreement, and
have made a sustained argument, in contest, about the continued presence of
religious aspects in novel writing and reading, describing a broad and
inclusive fiction that is consistent with and only possible in a pluralistic
culture where the secular and religious freely coexist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the latter section of Part 1, I’ve argued
that the rise of a theoretical fiction and an ideology of professional
cooperation in the academy between authors and critics has further usurped and
pre-empted Wood’s notion of provisional belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One does not so much <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">believe</i> or
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">disbelieve </i>in the world of
post-modern fiction as one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">agrees </i>or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">disagrees </i>with its stated ideology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fostering of narrow theoretical
interpretations via author to critic and critic to author reification not only
endangers an independent literature through institutional co-optation, but also
threatens future interest in post-modern literature by aligning these works
with theories which will eventually become, if they have not already become, dated.</div>
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Here I will examine a more recent
essay of Wood’s , “Why? The Fictions of Life and Death”, (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Yorker</i>, Dec. 9, 2013).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In it, there is evidence Wood has migrated away from some of those
fundamental statements about the secularity of the novel, even though Wood’s first
novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book Against God <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>(2003<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">)
</i>already displayed an ambivalence about religion that belied the boldest
declarations of those roughly contemporaneous essays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A decade hence, Wood sees the novel as having
both inherent religious and secular aspects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The major change is that he is looking to
texts as the basis of his claims rather than to reader-focused attitudes toward fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What hasn’t changed is the fundamental way
Wood applies his theory. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was struck
by the peculiar assertion, the underlying thesis of his reminiscence about
attending a memorial service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It opens
out into a reflection on life and death in the novel:</div>
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To read the
novel is to be constantly moving between secular and religious modes, between
what you could call instance and form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The novel’s secular impulse is toward expanding and extending life; the
novel is the great trader in the shares of the ordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It expands the instances of our lives into
scenes and details; it strives to run these instances at a rhythm close to real
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of the way that Henry James
devotes an entire chapter, in ‘The Portrait of a Lady,” to the five or six
hours that Isabel Archer sits in a chair, thinking about the failure of her
marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly half a century later,
Mrs. Ramsay, in “To the Lighthouse,” will be sitting by the window, thinking about
her children, about her husband, about all the sorts of different things, and
will forget that she is supposed to stay still, because Lily Briscoe is
painting a portrait of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Ramsay,
in effect, forgets that she is at the center of a portrait, of a novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a kind of secular forgetting: the
novel is so full of its own life that human life seen under the eye of eternity
has been carelessly banished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death will
roar back, but not yet, not now…When the novel is in this forgetful, profane
mode, it wants its characters to live forever.</div>
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It seems a striking change from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Broken Estate, </i>a long way from the
earlier quotes that prompted Singh to say “For Wood, the novel destroys strong
belief as a matter of form…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the
novel is the “slayer of religions” what then does Wood mean when he talks about
the novel having a religious form? Wood’s assertion gives the impression that a
religious form is there in the novel, as if you could just pick any novel and
find it, the way you’d expect a PC to come with operating software.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the way through , the piece is built on
this kind of overstatement, like a car so precariously overloaded with
possessions, you hope it doesn’t have far to travel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One problem is that you have to accept Wood’s
premise of secular and religious modes in the first place, because he’s vague
in defining them and assumes they exist by virtue of his having conceived of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throughout the piece, Wood virally
attaches secular to “instance” and religious to “form” and “time” as if they
were compound nouns, asserting them without first, if ever, making a reasoned
argument for their use. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He attempts this
in the above passage with the example of Woolf’s Mrs. Ramsay forgetting to sit
still while posing for a portrait. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the way he makes the forgetting of
death a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">secular forgetting</i> by
assuming, it would seem, that death is a religious reckoning in the first place.
But you can tell he's loaded the die to roll his way
when he makes eternity (quite blind to a secularist) into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the eye of eternity</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
supplies a divine outlook on the eternal (suggesting it is Godly rather than
evolutionary) and thus circularly justifies the forgetful <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">instance </i>as a secular thing by contrast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But calling the novelist's concern with death a religious mode, is like saying scientists who study human
genes and disease pathology are working in a religious mode because of their
mindfulness of death. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It stands to
reason, if eternity exists for secular-minded people, then death and the contemplation
of the eternal has a secular, not a religious, meaning for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Singh’s quotation of Northrup Frye from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Secular Scripture: A study of the
Structure of Romance</i>, is much to the point about the liberation of time:</div>
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The secession of
science from the mythological universe is a familiar story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The separating of scientific and mythological
space began theoretically with Copernicus, and effectively with Galileo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the nineteenth century scientific time had
been emancipated from mythological time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in proportion as the mythological universe becomes more obviously a
construct, another question arises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
saw that there is no structural principle to prevent the fables of secular
literature from also forming a mythology, or even a mythological universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it possible, then, to look at secular
stories as a whole, and as forming a single biblical vision?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the question implied in the ‘secular
scripture’ of my title…The Bible is the epic of the creator, with God as its
hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romance is the structural core of
all fiction: being directly descended from folktale, it brings us closer than
any other aspect of literature to the sense of fiction, considered as a whole,
as the epic of the creature, man’s vision of his own life as a quest.</div>
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If “scientific time” has been
“emancipated from mythological time”, and fiction, via the romance, is a
non-religious, “secular scripture”, why does Wood (given his former secularist outlook) see death and the eternal
as elements of religious form and time, rather than elements of emancipated secular
form and time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wood never gives a satisfying answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an assumed
matter-of-factness about the significant fundamental claim he makes, as if it
were a boast made at a cocktail party after several drinks,which everybody is
either just drunk enough to swallow, or too drunk to dispute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early on and then later in the piece Wood
turns to the idea that the act of writing the beginning, middle and end of a
human life, authorial omniscience also, is an “arrogation of divine
powers”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this metaphor for what
a novelist does he takes for granted as the religious mode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wood may view it that way, but when I write a
novel, I don’t feel like god, I feel like my characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I envision a beginning and an ending to
my novel, I am not asserting a divine prerogative, but imaging the world, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as if</i> I were there to witness it as a
human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a secular way of
seeing the authorial mode without the metaphoric overlay of godly omniscience. It all depends on the author.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to write my novels from the inside
out; somebody like Nabokov writes from the outside in, artistically controlling
every element and detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if Nabokov
‘s way of playing God is the meaning of Wood’s religious mode, that Nabokovian
extreme cannot be generalized for the novel as a whole.</div>
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In Thomas Bernhard’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Loser, </i>the unnamed narrator stands
waiting to book a room at an inn, and in that short period of time the details
of his life, a fictional version of the pianist Glenn Gould’s and the
narrator’s friend, Wortheimer’s life, are expanded on for more than a hundred
pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">instances</i> are obsessed with thoughts of death and suicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does this mean, according to Wood’s sweeping
definition, that Bernhard’s mindfulness of death makes these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">religious instances</i> rather than secular ones? Bernhard is
certainly expanding life with a series of rather circular recollections and
scenes, and so this expansion must be the secular mode, and yet, according to
Wood, by imposing death on the moment is not the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">instance </i>here also contracting life, the way the novel’s form
supposedly flattens it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
distinction that doesn’t hold, then, because in almost every novel you can
think of an exception to Wood’s new dictum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The problem is not Wood’s observation that the novel both expands and
contracts our lives, but Wood’s failure to persuade us that the expansion of
life through scenes and details is fundamentally secular and the formal need to
have a beginning, middle and end to a life story is fundamentally
religious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one thing, the god-like
omniscience Wood refers to early on, which has the temerity to make a
beginning, middle and end to a human life, is also responsible for expanding
that life as well moment by moment. It is the same consciousness at work, part of the same impulse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The causality of the instance is to the
ultimate form of a novel what the values of light and shadow are to a basic
line drawing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When filling in those
instances with the shadow and light that lend perspective and depth, you are
not forgetting the line drawing on the paper, you are ever mindful of the
boundaries of objects and ultimate composition of the drawing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No creator of novels bifurcates their concern
the way Wood suggests, and I doubt readers see it that way either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether a novel has religious or secular
elements depends entirely on the novel and the author writing it, not on Wood’s
semantic understanding of death as a religious signifier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wood’s whole notion seems fundamental to the
exclusion of content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, if
you took Updike’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Month of Sundays,</i>
it has something of a secular form, yet is full of religious instance, as it is
the month long journal of a sexually disgraced minister sent to a religious
retreat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>it is a takeoff on
Hawthorne’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scarlet Letter. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its connection to that other novel makes the
two interconnected in literature’s own extra-Biblical mythology, making
tangible Frye’s sense of literature as “secular scriptures”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joyce’s A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man </i>does not close out a life but brings a young
man to a point of decision: the beginning of his life as an artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would guess the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bildungsroman</i> would meet Frye’s definition of a secular form, not a
religious one. </div>
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The whole notion that the organic and fluid process
of writing a novel can be carved up arbitrarily like national borders after a
war into secular and religious states is an ill-conceived notion, if only
because it would be impossible to prove as a general rule. This may be why Wood
is so vague and deflects his own assertions with circular reasoning and
conversational drift, like somebody edging toward the door to get out of an
awkward circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice what happens when
Wood attempts to define what he means by a religious mode:</div>
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“But the novel’s
eternal or religious mode reminds us that life is bounded by death, that life
is just death-in-waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What makes the
mode religious is that it shares the religious tendency to see life as the mere
antechamber to the afterlife—hence John Donne’s characterization of our lives,
in his sermon on the Book of Job, as a sentence already written in a book by
God:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Our whole life is but a
parenthesis, our receiving of our soul, and delivering it back again, makes up
the perfect sentence;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is Alpha
and Omega, and our Alpha and Omega is all we are to consider.’”</div>
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When I read this passage, I stopped cold. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The novel </span><i>shares the religious tendency to see life as the mere
antechamber to the afterlife</i>? Rather than explaining his theory, as reasoned argument should, this assertion compounds the need for further explanation. It digs the hole deeper. I mean, isn’t that how anybody would argue the novel’s concern with death as a religious mode, by deploying a quote from
a sermon that predates the novel, rather than giving us examples from actual novels, or quotes from novelists?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moment is so dumbfounding, the disconnect so complete, Wood sounds like a politician giving an
elaborate answer to a question the interviewer has not even asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not just quote Matthew 6:19/20 as
authority on the novel’s anticipation of the afterlife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount,
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, Donne sees life as a mere
parenthesis, that perfect sentence delivered back to god, but Donne is speaking as a theologian not a novelist, and unless Wood is talking about John Bunyan and C.S. Lewis there is no way to argue his assertion. The novel has no such tendency.<br />
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Having made a bold statement
about the novel’s <i>religious tendency </i>and expounded on it by quoting a sermon that has nothing to do with the novel, indeed
Wood’s next line of argument is <i>to quote scripture </i>(<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">and you thought I was being facetious). </span>This paragraph immediately follows the above
quote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In this mode the novel does as God vouchsafes to do in Psalm 121:
“The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>It teaches us about the relation of instance to form. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s an achievement,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because most of us find it difficult to make
this inquiry into our own lives. We are condemned to apprehend our going out
and our coming in retrospectively<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> as if we were rowing a
boat, clear-eyed only about the distance we have already covered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was happy in this city, we say, when we
return to it years later; I was unhappy throughout my twenties; I was truly in
love only once; it was a mistake, I now see, to have taken that job; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b> I am forty-eight and it has taken
me this long to realize that I know nothing about my father.<b>..</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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Yes, the novel records the goings out and comings in of our <i>lives, </i>as do biographies,<i> </i>but none of this has anything to do with the afterlife, that is, with religion. Singly or collectively, the instances of life stand on their own as secular facts. Wood is just imposing religion on them without showing any structural relationship between the novel and religious literary forms, which is the case he could be making here by choosing specific texts. <i> </i>Perhaps, with a
deadline approaching and an idea in his head that sounded good at first blush, Wood was seduced by his own rhetoric, and used the escape hatch of rambling reflection when arguments didn't easily follow assertions. The loose form and reflective nature of the reminiscence too easily aided the murky generalities of such a thesis and too little supported a space for the analytic rigor required to argue it. Given how near and dear religion and secularism are to Wood, it's a surprisingly weak distillation of his concentrative powers. Wood is on the right track by
looking to texts for evidence of religious or secular content, but he goes off the rails in
trying to fast track his flimsy general theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A case can be made, as Singh concludes below, that
within the process of secularization, particular novels can be said to embody
religious aspects, but these are cases that have to be made novel by novel, not
by the sweep of fundamental <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>declarations
about instance and form that simply do not hold up to close examination.<br />
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Secularization
never ended as a historical process—nor will it end; it is still in process, in
Europe (where debates about religion in public life have been extremely
important in recent years), in the United States (a highly religious country
with a thoroughly secularized public sphere), and elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in history, so in literature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With every generation of modern writers—indeed,
with every novel written—the struggle for literary secularism is rewritten,
reinvented as if for the first time.</div>
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John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-81169817041068260882014-12-24T16:27:00.001-08:002020-03-05T09:21:14.685-08:00JAMES WOOD, BELIEF AND THE IDEOLOGICAL NOVEL: TWILIGHT AT THE BROKEN ESTATE (PART I): <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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While writing my first novel, Lightbearer, one that encompassed the
improbable span of eternity,it was necessary to think about the world without
preconception—creation, sexuality,desire, and consciousness--imagining them,
inasmuch as possible, as they would appear to those who were not influenced by
successive layers of historical interpretation, received wisdom or the cultural
norms of the present. The old verities had to be reset to zero.
Scientific discovery has the power to reset our understanding of the world also.
Indeed biochemistry and neuroscience have made discoveries that
recontextualize, even overturn, our past understanding of human emotion and
attachment. That is to say, if there are hormones that produce or are
produced upon the apprehension of love, then such understandings might tend to
demythologize the ‘divine’ emotion, strip it of a religious moral imperative:
love thy neighbor as thyself. Yet, love need not lose its appeal or
prominence in the process, neither to be viewed on one hand as a construct,
some bourgeois social convention that requires ironic quotations around it, nor
as the greatest commandment. <br />
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Even if love came about by accident, human connection has a life, a
practical essence, which operates outside the modes dictated by religion, the
theoretical deconstructions of modernism, or the mere biologically programmed
response. We continue to ratify love in living no matter what religionists
proscribe, and no matter how much the cynics scoff. More than a few existential
philosophers and not a few novelists have had to go home and answer to their
wives and lovers after proclaiming that life is a meaningless accident and love
a mindless biological impulse designed to trick us into reproducing. And
in the era of same sex marriage, gays and lesbians will be excused if they fail
to believe religionists who say their love either does not exist or is a
mistake. When it comes to love and living in general, one needs to steel
oneself with a certain moral independence to act freely and live
creatively.<br />
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For me, this moral independence is the ground fiction seeks to claim as its
territory. So even while writing, or re-writing, the central Judeo-Christian
story found in scripture, in imagining the beginning and the end of all things,
it was as essential to fully engage theological questions inherent in that
narrative frame as it was to make space for the science that prevails today in
the re-examination of such beginnings and endings, and possible spaces in
between. The idea was to let them fight it out, qualify and inform each
other. For, in Lightbearer, even God complies with the physics of the
Second Coming: being close enough to be seen by all, means not being seen
by all at once, rather letting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Parousia </i>roll
from place to place across the land. Anything the novel can imagine, like God
himself, it can contain for the sake of experimental knowledge. This is
neither a scientific knowing, nor a religious kind, but a testing of human
nature that is predictive all the same. It may be informed, like love, by
science and religion but it is not constrained by either in its
knowledge-seeking. The idea of being able to examine different modes of
experience alternatively or concurrently, this kind of fighting it out, seems
to be a pluralistic notion. An art form you might expect to flourish in a
secular society.<br />
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In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Broken
Estate </i>(2004), James Wood came out as a champion of the novel’s secularity
and stated that what was most secular about the novel was our ability to choose
to believe or not believe in the world of a work of fiction, and that this
belief was a provisional, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as if</i>, belief:<br />
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"Nevertheless, the reality of fiction must also
draw its power from the reality of the world. The real, in fiction,
is always a matter of belief, and is therefore a kind of discretionary
magic: it is a magic whose existence it is up to us, as readers, to validate and
confirm. It is this reason that many readers dislike actual magic or fantasy in
novels…Fiction demands belief from us, and that is demanding partly because we can
choose not to believe. However, magic—improbable occurrences, ghosts, coincidences—dismantles
belief, forcing on us miracles which, because<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>they
are beyond belief, we cannot choose not to believe. This is why almost
all fiction
is not magical, and why the great writers of magical tales are so densely realistic.<br />
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…This is surely the true secularism of fiction—why,
despite being a kind of <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>magic, it is actually the enemy of
superstition, the slayer of religions, the scrutineer
of falsity. Fiction moves in the shadow of doubt, knows itself to be a true lie, knows
that at any moment it might fail to make its case. Belief in fiction is always belief
“as if.” Our belief is itself metaphorical—it only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resembles </i>actual belief, and is therefore
never wholly belief."<br />
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Wood’s recognition of provisional belief in the novel rings true in a very
common sense way. It was Coleridge after all who coined the phrase
“willing suspension of disbelief” nearly two hundred years ago, though he had
in mind the kind of fantastic tales Wood finds problematic. In 1817
Coleridge was recalling his collaboration with Wordsworth on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lyric Ballads</i> two
decades earlier, and this work came at the end of a century that had seen a
sharp decline in belief in the supernatural:<br />
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agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer
from our inward nature a human
interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>imagination that willing
suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth on
the other hand was to propose to himself as his<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>object, to give the charm of novelty
to things of every day, and to excite a feeling<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>analogous to the supernatural, by
awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of
custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>before
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Coleridge’s notion of suspending disbelief as poetic faith seems a necessary
post-Enlightenment strategy for resuscitating the “shadows of imagination” that
had languished in the preceding century, requiring an attention to “human
interest and a semblance of truth” on the writer’s part (being true to human
nature and the psyche as much as to the“density of realism” Wood describes),
and “suspension of disbelief for the moment” on the reader’s part.
Nevertheless, this attitude seems necessary for the appreciation of any
performance involving artifice, from a magic show, a play, or a two dimensional
movie on a screen, certainly to anything enclosed between two covers, and,
whether on the page or the stage, this approach to narrative and drama began
long before the reign of secularism. Coleridge is merely one of the
literary spirits responsible for reviving the tradition of supernatural
manifestation that two centuries later seems again dubious to Wood. It
has come in and out of fashion before. Yet today, in popular literature,
fantasy has never enjoyed a more robust place, while in the halls of academia
there has been much written, however hyperbolic, about the death of literary
realism or, at least, about the death of conventional notions of “the real”.
Some of it is a direct response to Wood’s ideas.<br />
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Wood may have it wrong, at least in part, when he asserts that many dislike
the magical or supernatural in fiction because they“cannot choose not to
believe” in it. Take, for instance, a production of Hamlet in Elizabethan
England (a time when belief in witches and ghosts would not raise as many
eyebrows as it might today) and the ghost of Hamlet’s father in particular.
Just because you believe in ghosts as actual phenomena doesn’t mean you believe
that you are seeing an actual ghost on the stage. A suspension of
disbelief is required regardless of whether you believe in ghosts or not, for
the purposes and moment of the drama before you. You might be more
inclined to feel a shiver of real haunting if the actor portraying Hamlet
appeared shaken enough that you felt his fear and wonder. What also makes the
ghost believable is that the ghost is a metaphor for a more substantial,
everyday concern in monarchical Elizabethan society: a murdered king and
a usurped throne. That knowledge for Hamlet is the real ghost, it truly
haunts him, and so the ghost is almost more poignant if you don’t believe in
ghosts, because it plays off that unbelief to remind us how irreversible death
is: only Hamlet, not the dead king, can avenge that crime.<br />
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The fact that we don’t believe in actual ghosts and yet can feel the shiver
of what it would be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like</i>
to see a ghost does not convert us to believing in ghosts after seeing Hamlet.
By the same reasoning, if we believe in actual ghosts but refuse to believe in
that ghost on the stage (if only because he bumped into a prop and spoiled the
notion of his immateriality) it will not slay our belief in ghosts in real
life. Wood’s objection to the supernatural is canceled out, then, because not
only is the operative belief in fiction<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> as if</i> but the
doubt we experience also is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as if</i>. For,
how can we experience real doubt about a fictional ghost? Wood’s own
statement about belief, then, is fully applicable to doubt: Our
doubt is itself metaphorical—it only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resembles </i>actual
doubt, and is therefore never wholly doubt. Now, metaphoric doubt can be
overcome with a great performance, just as metaphoric belief in even an
ordinary action can be undone by an actor’s clumsiness. Wood does not
explicitly acknowledge the nature of fictional doubt, in fact, privileges doubt
over belief by assuming that the doubt we experience reading fiction is real
doubt, while the belief we experience reading fiction is a most tenuous,
provisional belief. We no more apply true skepticism in the reading of
fiction than we do when listening to the telling of a dream. For once
inside the novel, the operative mode is metaphoric from alpha to omega.<br />
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Contrary to Wood’s assertion that the presence of the magical takes away our
freedom to refuse belief, I think it possible that metaphoric assent to
something that does not exist may actually restore (even a skeptic’s) freedom
to recover belief <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for
the moment</i>. All we have to do is reverse Wood’s premise to neutralize
it. Does not an atheist, like Wood, forego the freedom of believing in
the supernatural? If the facts of the natural world determine Wood’s
atheism, then he does not have a choice to believe in the supernal (if he
rejects god, he is a believer in disguise). His atheism, as fact, has
denied him a certain freedom: belief in the supernal. Does
not being limited to believing only in the real, or natural, in fiction, also
make us unable to choose to believe in the impossible in that fiction? The last
phrase generates the same predicament as Wood’s double negative formulation,
“we cannot choose not to believe.” These are reversible propositions:
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impossible</i>,
because it is beyond belief and makes us unable to choose to doubt it, deprives
us our freedom (Wood’s proposal); or, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">possible,</i>because
it is the basis of reality and makes us unable to choose not to accept it,
deprives us our freedom (my proposal). If you squint one eye or the
other, doubt or belief can be seen as equal hindrances to freedom, even if both
of these propositions are overstated in the acknowledged play world of fiction.<br />
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I would grant there are readers who dislike actual magic in novels because
it is simply beyond belief, not because in some abstract way it impinges on
their freedom to express doubt. In a way, the refusal of the magical
shows an inclination to believe over an inclination to doubt, in that a secular
person is not looking to secure room for doubt in denying the magical, but to
make a secure space for the “real” they may believe in. From another
angle, it could be said that many secularists want to deal only in secular
terms, like vendors who deal only in their own national currency. Indeed, to
such readers, the magical may be as useless, as impractical, as presenting
Deutche Marks at a McDonald’s in Topeka, Kansas. This impasse with the
miraculous or magical, though, expresses the deeper need to keep the domains of
the religious/supernal and the secular/common separate. <br />
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This anxiety exists because often such “readers of reality” have had to come
through much struggle to achieve this separation and thus cannot easily or
comfortably endure its breaching. It is similar to the way some gay readers of
my novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lightbearer,
</i>find it so objectionable. For, it is both incomprehensible and
an outrage to their sense of justice that a gay man would write a novel that
frames the origins of same sex love within a Biblical narrative that is used to
condemn it, rather than in a secular liberation context. It must seem to
them like the Israelites returning to Egypt after having been freed. For
me though, the impulse of gays to submerse in urban subcultures, liberation in
isolation, had at some point become escapism rather than true liberation.
Security maintained by separation. A different set of chains.The parallel
between atheism and gay experience can be drawn because in America, for many
people with high profile public lives, coming out of the closet as atheist is
as potentially risky, if not more so, than coming out as gay. So, in this
milieu of sharp division between interior life and public profession, there is
a keen awareness of the security of these boundaries. The supernatural or
magical in novels is yet another laden symbolic crossing of planes and
boundaries between the religious and secular that constitutes a violation (a
novelistic merger of church and state if you will), more about the incursion
into existential territory than the deprivation of a freedom to believe or
doubt. <br />
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AmardeepSingh in his 2006 critical volume <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Literary
Secularism:Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction </i>observes
this separation anxiety in the way Wood is critical of the late 19<sup>th</sup>
century secularization of religion: “Wood prefers writers to be either openly
religious or openly atheist, and expresses impatience with those who occupy the
in-between space of Matthew Arnold’s ‘religion of culture’.”<br />
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This crossing of planes comes up in my novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lightbearer</i>, when
Virgil Caldera is trying to negotiate his departure from his church. It
is not just a matter of not showing up on Sabbath for services, it is a matter
of abandoning belief. In the scene below, Vigil is dining with his
would-be lover, Joe Coseia, who happens to be Lucifer in human disguise.
The problem for Virgil is that he has received not only a vision from God, but
a pendant, an artifact of divine revelation, that he finds impossible to
rationalize away:<br />
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“I
can’t just turn off my memory. It’s not like before. I’ve seen him.
I know he’s real. He <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> coming.”<br />
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“You’re serious.”<br />
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“Of course.” Virgil stabbed a falafel ball with his fork.<br />
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“I have to admit I’d be a much better devil’s advocate if I hadn’t seen you
levitate out of a church pew. It’s second nature for a skeptic to
automatically discount the presence of miracles, or at least, if you allow for
some unexplainable events, to argue alternative explanations for them.
It’s a live and let live situation. I know people who claim to have seen
ghosts and I don’t disbelieve them—I believe they believe they have—yet I have
never seen one…It’s not real to me. I can accept the possibility of a
spirit world, but I don’t claim to understand it, and I don’t seek it out.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with me; we’re like objects on parallel planes
that never intersect. And I suspect it is only real to those who live on
that plane of belief.”<br />
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“But you saw me levitate; the planes have crossed. You can’t pretend it
has nothing to do with you now.”<br />
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Later in the argument, Lucifer resorts to other rationalizations:<br />
<br />
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“…Now here’s what I think. After you let loose on my body, you’ll never
have another vision. God won’t bother you again. And it won’t be
long before you’ll wonder what on earth you were ever thinking.”<br />
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“What about the pendant?”<br />
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“It’s just an object when you separate it from your system of eschatology.”<br />
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“Like an out-of-place object?”<br />
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“Exactly,” Joe said, pointing his fork to dot his exclamation.<br />
<br />
<br />
…”And what if he does come back?”<br />
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“Ninety-nine generations have failed before you,” Joe said, signaling the
waiter. “Even if everything you believe is true, there’s every chance
your generation will also fail. Have a little faith.”<br />
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Here the tables are turned on rationalism by an irrefutable sign, an
unexplainable object and Virgil’s levitation from a church pew before an entire
congregation. Skepticism is on the run. Never mind that Lucifer is
hiding his supernatural identity and knows that Virgil’s seduction may well
delay the Archangel’s promised return. In the face of an indisputable
miracle, Lucifer’s best devil’s advocate is an unconvincing attempt to straddle
and rationalize this difficult boundary between fundamental belief and rational
secularism by a soft live and let live separation of existential planes.
It pragmatically delays the taking of a stand on the supernal, reproducing in
us Wood's impatience and discomfort. For when it comes to miracles in
fiction, Wood would rather the planes did not cross either. Just as
the tangible miracle makes it difficult for Virgil to abandon belief, so the
absence of miracles makes it difficult for Wood to abandon his unbelief.
Either way it’s hard to abandon a fact. Because once a miracle becomes a
fact, science yields its authority by being unable to explain that fact, while
faith dissolves into a kind of science by its very confirmation as fact.
There is good reason then for both the believer and unbeliever to be nervous
about the miraculous, even if the believer is naïve about the reasons. At
the heart, then, of this difficulty of crossing planes between the religious
and secular is the fear that they may undo each other. That in some
hybrid or mitigated form they will lose the strength and efficacy of real
conviction. Thus, Wood’s harsh words for the soft secularized religion of the
late 19<sup>th</sup> century in his essay “The Broken Estate”:<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">"</span>But, the moment
at which Jesus became a hero of a novel, of a ‘prose poem’, he<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>also became
fictional. The old estate broke. Jesus lost his divinity, became
only an
inspiring fantasist. We may wonder what use Jesus is if he is a figure no
different
from Socrates on the one hand and Daniel Deronda on the other. Why should we heed his
difficult words, what is the flavor of his command once the taste for his
authority has evaporated? Secularists perhaps relish that point in intellectual history
at which Christianity loses its theological prestige and begins<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>to
fall into the secular ranks. Yet, intellectually, a new pettiness was the
first<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>replacement of the old, divine
Jesus, and it is hard not to lament the passing of actual belief when it is replaced with
only a futile poetry. Christianity was not, of course <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>shoveled away, it was coaxed into sleep by nurses who mistakenly
thought that they were
healing it. Indeed, it might be said that in the last forty years of the nineteenth century, until
Nietzsche’s decisively canceling work began to dominate,
the feeblest evasions and weakmindedness passed for theological thinking.
Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold are the chief nurses of the sleep of nineteenth-century
Europe and in their work one finds much false medicine."<br />
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Singh uses this quote, and his commentary on it below is much to the point:<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">"</span>For Wood, the
true tragedy is not Nietzsche’s rejection of God (and of Jesus), but the secularization of the Biblical narrative, such that
it becomes merely another kind
of novel. We see the fulfillment of the phrasing in the earlier quote
about fiction
as the “slayer” of religion. For Wood, the novel destroys strong belief
as a matter of form, by
introducing the option of the provisional, non-committal type of belief that
is typical of a reader’s approach to a Dickens novel. Once that way of
reading—which is also a way of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">being—</i>comes to
dominate, it subsumes all other
kinds of narrative."<br />
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But is Wood right? My ghost analogy above illustrates the way that
these two modes of belief and of reading narratives continue to coexist and
compete. Religion continues to be viable in Western societies and
dominant in many Eastern ones , even in democratic India where the novel is
also vibrantly alive. Despite a secular government in the United States,
God’s name is still on the money and an openly atheist president is yet
unelectable. It is paradoxical, but essential, that secularism, which
gives rise to novelistic freedom, also gives rise to religious freedom. It’s
the key to the true secularism of the novel. For it is only in a secular
state that religious freedom can flourish (atheism enjoys protection under that
banner as well). Otherwise, what you have, and what had existed in the
West at least as far back as Rome, is state religion. The enforcement of divine
authority on earth. When the Soviet state tried to banish God, it failed at
being truly secular; for in disallowing religion, it set up the secular state
as the state religion.<br />
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Surely, one of the successes of modern secular states is the granting of
broad religious freedoms (the separation of church and state). In such
societies it is not surprising that the novel’s secular whole will reflect that
very pluralism in its pages. That is not to say there aren’t droves of novelists
who reject religion, and some even who find fault with secular humanism too
(one thinks of Thomas Bernhard, who doesn’t breathe the name of god at all in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Masters, </i>but
rails ceaselessly against modern sentimentality in just about every art form). Bernhard
may refer disparagingly to Catholicism, but only as a human institution, not as
a divine agency. His novels may be the best example of what a “hard” secularism
looks like in a novel. God is not banished. God is not even an
absence, does not occupy even an inch of Kierkegaardian negative space, and yet
the subjective tyranny that rules there is a kind of God unto itself, because
it rejects almost everything in its wake, including the mode of reason in its
critique of society. It cares not if you agree or disagree. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thus saith the Lord</i>
is replaced by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thus
said Wortheimer,</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reger said yesterday
at the Künsthistoriches Museum</i> for that matter.Yet, in rejecting what it
does regard (secular society and human institutions) without recourse to its
standard means of regarding itself (through reasoned critique), it may be seen
as anti-secular. Like long, looping suicide notes to the
world, Bernhard's narratives posture in a subjective disengagement, a
mania that seems anti-pluralistic in its refusal to persuade and also in its
super-iteration--from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gargoyles </i>(1963)
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Extinction </i>(1986)--of
a single fictional style, narrative frame and story in every novel. There is
always one thing that escapes rejection, one thing that retains quality or
value, in a Bernhard novel. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Loser</i> it is
Glenn Gould’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Goldberg
Variations. </i>In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Masters</i> it is
Tintoretto’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">White
Bearded Man</i>. As delightful as Bernhard’s narrators are despite themselves,
their monism smacks of a theology of the self that may be the ultimate pitfall
of a “hard” fundamental secularism.<br />
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It is no stretch to say authors of serious literary novels have an
overwhelmingly secular outlook, as Singh also notes at the outset of his
study.Yet, far from excluding religion from the novel, secularism has ensured
religious inclusion, if only because so many secular authors have unfinished
business with religion. In principle, so long as the novel is pluralistic
and free it never will be a “hard secular” art form, never free of religious
influence. For free religious belief, in various ways, informs the sphere
of its practice. Scripture alone, the Bible in Western tradition, is a
rich literary source of metaphor and carries with it a trail of historical and
cultural associations that are not easily abandoned. Yet, it is the
conflict that arises so often with religion’s inclusion, the uncomfortable
subway car ride of atheists, fundamentalists, nominal believers and New Age
appropriators, jostling elbow to elbow at rush hour, that makes the novel most
secular. That is, the intransigence of the plural and the inclusion
of conflict in the novel, this very essence of freedom in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the text</i>,
commends it as a secular bastion. It is worth noting, and not so
surprising, that Wood, the critic, locates the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">novel’s </i>most secular
aspect in the non-commital attitude of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reader </i>toward the
text, rather than finding it in the texts themselves as Singh does.<br />
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Being free and human in every detail, novels do not deny access to religion
in their inquiry, the way science or orthodox religion must prohibit other
forms of inquiry in their domains to maintain their purity. The trying of
religion is essential to fiction’s experiment. The pervasiveness and
persistence of religious ideas and values in world culture means it is
unavoidable in life, and so we should expect it to appear in our novels.
The novel, then, if it is a secular form of human knowledge-seeking, thrives on
dissent (especially since novelists are the ones picking the fights), and
limits its own secular power to work out these conflicts even if it does so
ambivalently. After all, allowing characters of diverse beliefs into a
novel requires the same loosening of artistic control that allows characters to
speak freely in their distinctive voices in the first place, rather than just
being mouthpieces for the author’s opinions. How these experiments turn out
(the knowledge of the end) and why they matter is what the novel attempts to
get right. If it fails to answer the great questions, at least it is
asking the questions we want answered, and, as it moves from the
particular life to the general metaphor of human experience, it promises, if it
is bold fiction, to make an educated guess about how its own fictional world,
if not the actual world itself, will end. <br />
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So belief in the novel, provisional though it may be, is the condition of
obtaining its particular kind of knowledge. If you don’t commit deeply,
you will not reap the rewards of its vision. It is significant that for the
religious mind knowing also follows belief. The rewards of religious
experience--peace of mind, assurance of salvation, having a divine purpose and
being part of a larger plan and community, even knowing forgiveness--all follow
belief. For, you cannot experience divine forgiveness unless you first
believe in the God who grants it, and in the spiritual condition that demands
it. For the secular, post-Enlightenment mind belief follows knowing.
Secularists place their belief in things that can be verified as a general
rule---the possible versus the impossible. For instance, steady global
rise in temperatures since the 1880’s and the thickness of Greenland’s ice are
scientifically provable measurements that precede belief in global climate
change. While Wood sees the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as if</i> belief of
fiction as secular because it is always something we can refuse at any time, it
is just as possible to see this belief as sharing something elementary with
religious belief. It retains the paradigm of religious seeking (belief
before knowing) rather than of secular skepticism (knowing before belief).
It is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like</i>
religious belief because that investment in the world of a novel is an act of
faith. It is akin to the novelist’s act of faith in the creative process
that brought about the work’s completion. <br />
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If you discuss books much over a period of years, you will no doubt observe
that many fundamentalist religious believers as well a growing majority of
secularists share a preference for non-fiction and a general dislike for the
project of fiction, and share, coming from very different points of view, a
strong disapproval of what, for them, is not fact-based. (Non-fiction far
outsells fiction; information now trumps the metaphor). For hard secularists
that would include all forms of superstition including religion, magic, folk
wisdom with no scientific basis and all supernatural occurrences. For
religious fundamentalists that would include the theory of evolution, atheism,
alternative origin narratives to the Biblical account, and all forms of magic
that compete or obviate the need for God. You can easily see how fiction is
suspect, at best an irrelevant game, to these minds that are nourished by the
perceived facts of their world views regardless if their outlook is secular or
religious. For religionists, fiction is too worldly to be trusted, an
idolatrous competitor with the Bible for its hold on the human imagination.
No less a novelist than Tolstoy came to view his own earlier fiction as too
worldly. While the real sticking point with secular post-modern writers
and readers, is that fiction is actually too much like religion as it is
traditionally practiced and appreciated. For, whether a novel is magical
or strictly realistic is almost beside the point. The objection to
fiction may lie in the paradigm of religious seeking (belief before knowing)
represented by traditional fiction. The notion of trusting the creative
process, the subconscious, is too mystical for many writers of serious fiction
today, as is the notion too binding that as readers they are subject to a system
of belief at all (either Wood’s notion or Coleridge’s idea), and must submit to
the novel. Notwithstanding the wide-ranging particulars of modern literary
theory, the entire project might well be summed up as an attempt to strip
fiction of every vestige of religious supplication and transcendence, by
dispelling the notion that we should trust it. <br />
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This religious dimension in the novel lies, partly, in the nature and style
of novelistic revelation. It is often intangible, symbolic and elusive.
It works on the reader’s mind in subtle, mysterious ways, through associations,
and recurrent powerful images, much the way images from the prophecies of
Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation, or the Psalms and parables of Jesus, stay in
our minds and work on our imaginations. The literary style and metaphoric
richness of scripture suggests that a continuation of its literary strategies
exists in the novel, even among the most secular authors. Thus we have
E.M. Forster’s resetting of scriptural quotations in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Passage to India</i>,
or the retelling of the Cain and Abel story in Steinbeck’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">East of Eden</i>, or
Rushdie’s reinterpretation of Islam and the Koran in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Satanic Verses </i>to
give just a few of examples of metaphor, content and narrative structure being
borrowed from religious texts. It’s also worth noting that Old Testament
writing, arising often from Pagan source materials, was also borrowed from
earlier literary traditions. These writings may well have begun their
literary journey <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as
if</i> before becoming <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thus saith the Lord</i>.
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That the novel “lives in the shadow of doubt” is an interesting and valid
observation by Wood, but it is one that assumes belief in religious texts, or
religious belief itself, is fundamentally different from our attitudes toward
secular texts. As somebody who was part of a fundamentalist religion for
more than 15 years, I know that the daily life of faith in a supernal reality,
even the grasping of doctrines peculiar to Seventh-Day Adventism on thin
or non-existent scriptural evidence, was far more difficult and doubt filled than the notional
doubt of reading a work of fiction. It was “real” doubt, after all, with a
“real” imperative. As I stated before, if belief in the novel is only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as if, </i>then the
shadow of doubt the novel lives in is also only a provisional shadow. To
live by a fundamentalist paradigm is to inhabit a supernal narrative, a novel,
if you will, wherein you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">believe</i> the
highest stakes and gravest consequences may ensue from your decisions and
actions. You ask yourself every day: Am I in the right relationship
with God? Have I acted on God’s principles or on my own selfish desires? Have I
influenced others to do the same? Am I truly saved? Am I
understanding this Bible text correctly? Is the interpretation of
Daniel’s 2300 day prophecy part of a literal time frame? And if a day in
Daniel represents a unit of prophetic time, not a literal day, might a day in
Genesis also represent a non-literal unit of time? On and on the
questions go, sometimes in a confusion of metaphoric and literal readings.
After all, any text, especially a sacred text, which requires our belief, must
in practice exist always under the shadow of doubt. In this way,
religious texts are more closely related to novels than Wood thinks, certainly
more than non-fiction texts. When we are told something is a true story,
we put aside our symbolist and metaphoric (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as if)</i> reading
methods the way we’d take off 3D glasses at the end of a movie.<br />
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So (getting back to the real) it seemed, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lightbearer,</i> the
best way to present the reality of religious fundamentalists--who believe in
eternal rewards and punishments--to truly understand why fundamentalist
believers sometimes act in ways contradictory to their beliefs (that is, in
inhuman ways) was to present as real the world where god and the devil
literally exist. To dramatize the pressures brought to bear on such
believers and their resulting real world actions. These, after all,
should concern us, Wood as well, more than the effect of Matthew Arnold’s
soft-headed poetry. The “real” necessarily changes in this context.
God becomes real through his followers. So we must believe in him again <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for the moment</i> to
understand those followers. Just as accommodating fundamentalist belief
requires our understanding and that dreaded pejorative “tolerance” in life, so
it demands something more of us when we encounter it in a novel. If the
novel is to be more than a form of escape (not only escape into formulaic
fantasies of ourselves but also escape into our dearest ideological
structures), then we must occasionally consent to breathe the same air with the
“other” when it is only the provisional air of a novel. This effort keeps
us honest as pluralists and keeps us from petrifying in our separate ideologies. The
inability to bridge this distance in accessing fiction may reflect a transfer
of rigidity from life to the reading experience, which after all is an
imaginative one. The reach of human understanding, questioning and sympathy, then, is
the ultimate and relevant reality of novels. It is hard to imagine a
secular novel that fails to communicate this pluralism fully in its texts and
to accommodate it in its critical readings.<br />
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Even as the Bible’s narrative consistency may collapse under the sustained
assault of literal (realist) interpretations, so faith in God may collapse at
any time in life under the strain of living. The trajectory of this arc
is long and generally stable. I once believed in scripture as God’s Word; I no
longer do and have not for more than 25 years. Was my belief (sustained
for over 15 years) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real
</i>belief if it could collapse? Was it not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">provisional</i> after
all? And was not that provisional quality, the thing that could not be
sustained, like a novel that’s premise collapses about half-way through, or the
metaphor that is not sustained or is overworked? In the long view, these
modes of belief Wood dramatically differentiates (actual and metaphoric) are
both subsumed in metaphor, as searches for the right ending that sometimes end
in failure. For, people quit religion and get converted to religion all
the time and often for the same reasons they quit or become obsessed with
reading a certain novel: it is too difficult, they encounter something
with which they disagree, they smell a phony, or they are engrossed by a
genuine vision, understand its deep truths, and are on fire for Bernhard and
God and will soon become their evangelists. <br />
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Or, to turn the argument away from the believer toward the object of belief,
we can change the textual dynamics. If a person doesn’t ever believe in
the Bible as divine revelation, then there is only a lifetime’s refusal,
whereas there are thousands and thousands of novels with which a reader may
repeat the process of belief or refusal within a lifetime. If there was
only one novel (say only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnegan’s Wake</i>),
then our perspective on the nature of this belief and refusal would be altered
radically. It would either be yea or nay for fiction once and for all based on
that single novel. The monism of the project of fiction then would tend
to freeze or make our view of it absolute. Thus, the multiplicity of
novels (plurality of vision as the core secularity of its form) makes
provisional belief an option in the first place. Hence, if I don’t believe in a
novel about a suicidal fallen angel, I may believe in another novel about a
suicidal housewife in a California suburb, or in one about a suicidal, failed
Austrian pianist.<br />
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This multiplicity of texts to choose from gives the reader freedom to
embrace literary visions that suit their sensibilities. As part of this
freedom, the reader retains the final say. For having chosen to believe,
at least enough not to throw the book down in disgust, a reader gets to
interpret the text. In this way, it seems to me, Wood doesn’t follow the
entire cycle of the reader/text loop with sufficient interest. For the
knowledge the novel imparts, the very style and language in which it is
delivered, calls out to be interpreted. It is a major aspect and function
of the novel’s secularity, then, that it is reviewed in secular periodicals and
in universities by a set of literary criteria, not by church synods,
theological tenets and religious forms of critique. A set of assertions
about a work of fiction may be made, but they do not require a profession of belief, or form a creed Although a process of debate exists over religious interpretations, the interpreters of fiction are less likely to view theirs as either moral or life and death matters.<br />
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Keeping in mind the generic distrust of fiction I mentioned before, which
either the secular or religious reader may bring to a text, we must consider in
this interpretive process the way fundamental orthodoxies may be superimposed
upon the reception of a novel for the individual and in the literary world as
well, beyond Wood’s notion of provisional belief transpiring in the cozy chair
between the reader and the text (Wood’s theories about fiction are often as
personal as his readings). <br />
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Belief does not happen, though, in a vacuum. It is certainly not
as pure or private as Wood’s elevated rhetoric in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Broken Estate</i>
makes it sound. For, it is rare that an individual reader comes to a text
before it has already been vetted and evaluated by critics like Wood.
Thus readers absorb some snippets on the book jacket, at the very least, that
begin shaping their belief before they even open the book. I would grant that
this mode of belief Wood describes is real and operative for the reader, of
course, whether or not that belief has been influenced beforehand. Yet,
because the process of literary reception is a likely influence on the reader’s
potential belief in the text, because the reader’s evaluation is often
derivative of other readings, and other ideologies in the reader may be present
to influence “belief” in a text, it is not certain that this “provisional”
belief always bears the stamp of secularity.<br />
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More specifically, novels of the academy, those written to theory (Pynchon,
DeLillo, Wallace, Rushdie, and Zadie Smith come to mind) will predictably find
“believers” among those who espouse those theories (mainly other writers,
critics and readers within the academy), and “refusers”among those in the
mainstream, who, at the least, have differing notions about narrative form if
not about the world. That is to say, whether a work of fiction is embraced
or dismissed is increasingly defined by ideological agreement or disagreement
with a given text, and thus may be ruptured before the reader begins, or at
least as soon as an ideology is identified in the text by the reader. As
such, an ideological mode of belief is setting in, which again may pre-empt
Wood’s literary notion of belief by privileging novels that present favored
ideologies. Since many of our serious writers and their critics are
housed in the same academic institutions, there is a professional incentive to
cooperate, as well as a built in knowledge of what kinds of novels get noticed
in those circles. <br />
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Here is William Gass in a 1978 interview on the subject: <br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;">"</span>…increasingly
he writes books that will teach well, you know. He may be teaching books himself. He is often in classes talking
about how you write, to writing
students; before you know it, his books are about writing, and they teach splendidly because you
have all these things that you can do in the class, to point out this device, that
move, and so on…So there is an interaction: the writer is writing, of course,
for the audience he has; the audience he has is also moulded by the kind of books he writes."<br />
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Wood is certainly familiar with the dynamic. He has been attacked and
caricatured as a reactionary critic stuck in 19<sup>th</sup>century realism,
and, not surprisingly, as having reactionary political views as well based on
his critique of much contemporary, post-modern writing, which he famously
described as hysterical realism. In his fascinating study “Practicing
Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes” (Contemporary Literature -
Spring 1991), John M. Unsworth describes the way the language of Hawkes
critical representations of his own works via his interviews migrates directly
to later critical response to his works. In this way, Hawkes (his
example followed by other post-modern practitioners like DeLillo also via
interviews and Thomas Bernhard via his two volume autobiography) orchestrated
reception of his work by acting as first reader. In addition, the
original critical representations of Hawkes work arose from Albert Guerard, the
influential critic who promoted and first brought attention to Hawkes in
1947. In the process, Hawkes was co-opted by Guerard in that his own
representations derive from his mentor (critical praise that may have been
conditional on Hawkes continuing to write in his early “approved” style) and
Hawkes, using his own status and prestige, co-opted his critics by providing
circumscribed interpretations of his works through his interviews.
This practice was already a generation old when Unsworth wrote about it, but is
certainly more entrenched now. Little wonder Wood was attacked for going
off script. You could not miss that Zadie Smith’s critique of Joseph
O’Neill’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Netherland</i>
(among Wood’s favorite books of 2008) was aimed in part at Wood—a delayed but
sharp literary backhand return of Wood’s devastating serve in his famous
“Human, All too Inhuman”essay. That the novel in the academy has become
ideological along theoretical and professional lines is evident in the way
Wood’s critique was interpreted and decried as a reactionary political attack.
It is hard to see it as any less than an admission of ideological entrenchment
when you respond to your critics: ‘if you don’t like this novel you must be
against its ideology.’<br />
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According to Unsworth, "...to date, much of the criticism of
post-modern fiction has...aimed at reproducing the ideology of the fiction it
discusses...The problem...is only exacerbated when author and critic are
contemporaries cohabiting in one institution. Under these circumstances,
the material inducements to cooperation may well subvert the independence of
both parties..." If the compromise of an independent literature
(meaning both authors and their critics) is not concern enough, Unsworth sees
another long term consequence of this kind of critical orchestration and
co-optation within the academy: its potential to freeze future interpretations
of a work and identify it too narrowly with theory such that it will cease to
be read once that theory becomes dated. In the meantime, these works
become engines of theoretical expectation, rather than avant garde novelty.
Such certitude undermines the real risk undertaken by all good fiction, the
process of difficult persuasion, without which the only affirmation possible is
the ‘Yes!’ of the true believer. <br />
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SOCHI 2014 OLYMPIC PAIRS SKATING</h2>
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It is a testament to our culture of agreement that the best commentators NBC could find for the 2014 Olympic figure skating competition were Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic. Scott Hamilton has always been awful: shouting in his mousy falsetto, rambling on with his skating insider schtick, grunting his trademark grunt to encourage successful jump landings, like a man trying to squeeze out some form of bronze, or shamelessly cheerleading, especially back in the day when all the skaters were his buddies and fellow competitors, and, worst of all, never knowing when to shut up and let a skating performance speak for itself. Bezic has often been a thoughtful and nuanced skating commentator, but also one with blind spots and inconsistencies in her commentary. She was best when paired with the direct and tell-it-like-it-is Robin Cousins, who could have and should have been the heir to Dick Button in the world of figure skating commentary. Cousins and Bezic's NBC World Championship telecasts of the early 90's were some of the best ever.<br />
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Unfortunately the combination of Bezic's too selective judgments and Hamilton's manic gushing created a nauseating cocktail of go with the flow, see-no-evil-hear-no-evil cheerleading. This was evident in the pairs final rebroadcast Wednesday night. In my opinion, the competition between the four top pairs was a lot closer than the scoring would lead you to believe, and you wouldn't know it by listening to the commentary either. It leads me to believe that Bezic and Hamilton were pretty much going along for the ride with the judges and the Sochi audience and not really there to analyze the sport at all.<br />
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I loved all the competitors and was delighted by their distinctive styles and ways of moving (I don't envy the judges their task), but there were some telling differences between them, in their technique and their musical interpretations that night. The subjective element in figure skating--the presence of judges in the first place--has always been part of the allure and frustration of the sport. It is unique in the way it combines high level athleticism and interpretive art. Judging controversies have always been a constant, especially so back in the days of the old scoring systems of base marks, placements and ordinals, things that were as esoteric to the average viewer of the sport as trigonometry to a remedial math student, <br />
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One constant in the decades of Russian dominance of pairs skating had been their technical mastery and the speed at which they delivered it. Speed, like unison in side-by-side moves and clean landings of jumps, is something that can be objectively measured, and when it comes to speed, you don't even need instant replay to tell when a skater is moving slowly or swiftly down the ice. Speed of course is a tangible that adds to the intangible feeling of excitement in a performance. Speed was always one of the criteria for distinguishing between pairs performing virtually identical technique. After all, if you did a throw triple salchow, or side-by-side triple loops the risk was always greater when performed at higher speeds. You have to ask three questions when differentiating competitors with virtually equal technique: Were they close together? Were they in unison? And were they fast? <br />
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Which brings me to what happened during last night's broadcast. I love the music from Jesus Christ Superstar and was prepared to be thrilled by Volosozhar and Trankov's performance of it, but what I saw, despite some strong technical moves, was a slow and tentative performance. Bezic called it "measured", observing that they were saving energy for the big moves at the end. What this means to me is that they did not have the stamina, or confidence in it, to skate a fast powerful performance from start to finish like their countrymen Stolbova and Klimov did. The most telling moments came when the music from the JCS Overture picked up in tempo and the skating slowed down in a torpid pairs spin., like a wobbling top about to teeter. Yet, there was nary a word spoken of how the performance failed to carry the energy or danger of the music. Even when the big moves were accomplished late in the program, garnering bonus points, they were delivered at the same overly careful pace that for me lacked excitement. The home audience can't be blamed for failing to notice, especially since there were many beautiful elements involved. Bezic and Hamilton should have noticed, though, and moreover should have noticed how badly off in unison the pair became at each position change in their side-by-side spin combination and again with a mistimed jump take-off. Volosozhar looked stiff and strained in her lift positions, while Stolbova was relaxed and fully extended in hers, giving the silver medalists the unmistakable flair their winning countrymen lacked. Finally, the music editing, including the ending seemed abrupt, giving a rushed and hasty feeling to the finish. To me they failed to skate up to the power and energy of their music. Their own stories and appeal as skaters aside and the crowds understandably emotional reaction shouldn't have kept some genuine analysis, a little reality, from creeping through. I don't care if he lived for three years under a Zamboni machine, the commentators still ought to notice how slow he skated and that he had rounded shoulders and slumpy posture.<br />
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That this performance, compared with the power, speed and technical proficiency of Stolbova and Klimov, or the choreographic execution by Pang and Tong that made their performance the most moving, that it was not only ranked first, but also given the highest scores ever for a pairs free skate under the new scoring system, just has to be viewed as an act of will on the part of the judges as a whole. Despite my bias for serious musical interpretations, I see Stolbova and Klimov as the winners. In my view, here is the order of placement: Stolbova and Klimov--Gold; Pang and Tong--Silver; Volosozhar and Trankov--Bronze.<br />
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The New York Times piece below takes a look at how national bias in the old system is thought to be alive and well in the new ISU scoring system. Under cover of anonymity now, some think the problem is worse than ever, only the ISU can pretend it has gone away. Certainly, the new system of scoring and the fact that the general public really doesn't understand what these scores mean is part of the reason for the sport's decline in popularity. Cheerleading commentators like Hamilton and Bezic, who are afraid to offer sharp analysis, ignore the controversy and potential for corruption that is inherent and endemic to the sport, and they do so at the risk of the sports future integrity and at the cost of an element that has always been one of its most riveting features. <br />
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Reader, a highly touted, yet mysterious, executive is hired to oversee the
merger of two rival publishing companies--the former Real Books and Decon
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involved. Those who get it right are promoted. Those who
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promotion. They in turn promote the wisdom of D. Folly Wolly's plan
to the Board of Directors and shareholders alike. The synergy
between the author of the memos and his ideal readers is complete. (</b><a href="http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/vitru3.html"><b>http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/vitru3.html</b></a><b>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<b>Among the new companies' projects are a series of
motivational dvds for the corporate executive, including: The Donald
with Curious Hair, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again in a Staff
Meeting, The Doom of the Schism, The Zen of Corporate Takeovers and How to Use
Wittgenstein to Obliterate the Competition. Rumors begin to
circulate that D. Folly Wolly is in possession of an old VHS video called
Infinite `Cest. It is said that anybody who watches this tape will completely understand his corporate system and the secret to building
an empire the likes of which will arouse envy, and even curiouser (sic) hair,
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richer and cooler than the Google guys, and recovering toner addict Don T.
Fencemein, who confuses himself with an old Country Western Song, the said
title being a perfect simulacrum of his name, within which coexistensivity he
alternately ignores people who call out his name, thinking they are talking
about the song, and reacts to the singing of the song as if his name has been
called or in the extreme as if people are talking about him behind his
back. Cal O. and Don T. take separate paths toward the mysterious
video--which eerily may/or may not be a transcription of the narrative you are
about to be kept from reading—only possibly/improbably meeting in a dream in
which they are sifting through the contents of D. Folly Wolly's paper shredder,
with the sad geek holding something with a temporal gap by the spine and making
a face on his mouth’s lips of someone shouting in panic, "Too Late, too
late; call it something I ate". They little know that they are doomed to
be stopped in their tracks. For the text of their adventure does not
exist, except in this description and sparingly in the end notes of the non
text, which are therefore mostly a self-referential parody not only of Infinite
Jest, but also of the cooptive dynamic of academic professionalism between the
author of that work and his inner circle of handpicked
critics. Thus, according to this text, Cal O. and Don T. may just be
life forms of the heterogeneous language games of recovery and addiction
swallowed up in the textless void called Infinite `Cest: A Successful Merger.
This facinating paper chase will draw the reader infinitely into its
irresistible speculation: is the successful merger D. Folly Wolly's incestuous
synergy with his corporate cohorts? Or is it the merger of a
textless novel with a non-existent motivational video as recursive
pseudo-crypto-media mirror images of each other? (</b><a href="http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/thesisb.htm"><b>http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/thesisb.htm</b></a><b>)
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<b>1</b>. Either from late 20th century American slang, or 19th century
Romantic poesy, possibly a fusion of both, `cest derives from
incest. Literary critic Adam Caine(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">)</span></b> was prescient in describing
the contraction of incest as springing from "...a wild-eyed inventiveness,
keenly aware of inexpressible human aspiration." A more
probable explanation for the contraction is its avoidance of the awkward
alliterative echo of Infinite Incest and a certain unsavoriness as well, while
making possible a resonance with a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet and a parody
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<b>1a</b>. Given the derivation of `cest, scholars have sought, like, to engage
the question of subversion or irony in the words `successful merger', although
Caine has argued, in The Dialogic Frison of Silence: the
Transcendence of Descriptive Language over the Analytic, that the title is an
elaborately constructed Wittgensteinian language game and any ironic exchange
between the words “successful merger” and “’cest” (incest) arises from the
juxtaposition of heterogeneous games attempting to signify the same life form
with disparate vocabularies and ideologies, forestalling any analysis of the
words themselves as meaningful, wherein the colon is complete and descriptive
as it appears on the page, a mark of separation, not an execrable passage
between the poetic vocabulary that precedes it and the corporate language that
follows it. Instead, they chase each other recursively, but
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<b>2</b>. A recent system of subsidized time involved corporate sponsorship of
the calendar, featuring products as diverse as the Depends Adult Undergarment
and the Perdue Wonder Chicken. After little more than two decades of
non-numbered years and products that bore no sequential relationship to each
other--for example if such years had instead been named after a group of
related products, like Year of Swiffer, followed by Year of the Disposable Swiffer Wet Pad, and then Year of
Swiffer Jet (whereby the citizenry might have been able use the sequential
introduction of the products as mnemonic devices)--an epidemic of Subsidized
Time Dysphoria and Perceived Subsidized Time Dementia (S.T.D. & P.S.T.D.;
the latter being a progressive and more serious stage of the former, and both
being actual AMA diagnoses) threatened to paralyze the country, the only known
cure for which involved either a 12 step program or a fresh start with a new
sequentially coherent calendar. The latter was undertaken by the
indignant but no less resourceful Consortium of Universities and Colleges for
Higher Learning and Dependency (C.U.C.H.L.D.), whose Academic Era proposed the
naming of years after literary events--like the arrival of a great literary
opus, the rise of a brilliant literary light, or the passing of an old
one—beginning appropriately with Year of Academic Salvation AE (Y.A.S.A) (<b>2a</b>),
and having as one of its aims to inspire the citizenry to read books once in a
while, preferably those highly regarded by the Consortium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Academic Era proved far superior to the
corporate era because, of course, it was thoroughly vetted by a bi-partisan
think tank and because it allowed the citizenry to associate actual events with
each year. And but if then how could anybody alive at that time
forget where they were and what they were up to during the most momentous year
since the AD's took over the calendar from the BCE's: Year of the Literary
Übermensch. The beauty of it was that he required no explicit
mention--he was on everybody's mind anyway--thus avoiding theft of the vast
intellectual property associated with his name alone and forestalling any
number of possible lawsuits and licensing bruhahas (we refer specifically to
the one over the official intercranially correct, Literary Übermensch Bobble
Head--doo rag and OED sold separately--and a cheap knockoff with like a faintly
hydroencephalic anomaly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the right
hemisphere that in no way represents the LU’s actual
noggin). However, cultural critics, a handful of cranks at most (and
weren't they always whining about quotidian details to distract from the
incomparable genius of the Consortium's Academic Era), complained that because
events could not be anticipated, the named year was always one year in arears
of the actual event (though admittedly the problem of event driven calendars
was not new, given that Christ's birth actually happened 3 or 4 years into the
era that bears his name), and they suggested the addition of a numeral after
each didactic year to avoid any future confusion. Fortunately, this
old-fashioned and small-minded objection, which entirely missed the point of
the Consortium's educational directives, was roundly ignored in the mainstream
and never even so much as stirred the collective consciousness to form a
question in the weekly news polls (such as, Do you want a freakin' calendar
with numbered years again?(<b>3</b>); or one that gives you the Howling
Fantods?(<b>5</b>)), where it might have raised the larger questions of why
anybody, even in jest, would propose a calendar that so flummoxed the citizenry
and destabilized the perception of time as to undermine the predicate of
corporate mastery it projected, and why also would anyone fail to understand
that time itself had not been subsidized at all, merely a description of time,
or foresee the inevitable backlash against those annular products (the then
young pitch man who had sold the concept of subsidized time to corporate execs,
a certain D. Folly Wolly, was summarily fired without so much as a decent
severance), and, elementarily, why wouldn't that genius have recognized the
inefficiency of a marketing strategy that only allowed for a single low-end
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years is as follows (and but yet though not necessarily in that order):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Year of Academic Salvation; Year of the
Literary Übermensch; Year of the Profoundly Flummoxed Reader; Year of the
Public Castration of James Frey by Oprah; Year of the Literary Übermensch
Bobble Head Knockoff; Year of the Non-Year (the Consortium swares that
absolutely nothing memorial transpired in the literary world); Year After the
Non-Year (A chronological clue); Year of the Death of Post-Modernism; Year of
The Third Wave in Fiction; Year of the Non-Confluence (During the last six
months of this portentous year all those employees of RealCon Editions involved
in the dialogic possibilities of addiction, recovery and other forms of
self-penetration, as well as the hunt for the video, went inexplicably
silent—critic Adam Caine surmised a character strike, or some simultaneous act
of intransigent non-disclosure that in no way undermined the democratic theory
of Bakhtin’s heteroglossia.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What became
of their search for the video is a matter of pure speculation, the
inexpressibility of which moves the parody Infinite ‘Cest:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Successful Merger (ICASM) toward the same
precipice of unintelligibility as the work it parodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can it be that ICASM the parody is a
transcription of <i>ICASM</i> the video, which its creator, along with his own
head, ran through the office shredder? whereby Cal O. Extravaganza’s and Don T.
Fencemein’s actions as characters in the literary parody ICASM searching for a
fictional video were, like, necessarily contained in the plot of the video,
which also must contain filmic versions of the jacket blurb, textless novel,
notes and errata and critical responses, at which point we understand that the
search for the video is only a transcription of a part of the plot of the
video, which coextensivity is kind of like a dog chasing its tail, or being
alone in a room full of mirrors and being told you must screw the other person
in the room before they screw you and after a while, wondering why you feel
kind of raw w/r/t/y/a/h, and finally seeing that you have screwed yourself,
which at the end of the day is a kind of pointless and probably painful trick
if you’re a big enough man to pull it off. Although a perfunctorily
mind-boggling possibility, it is both existentially trivial compared to what it
subverts--all the dissolute and transcendent human possibilities of hope under
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<b>3</b>. Note the daring juxtaposition of colloquial and formal styles (Did
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though the narrator possesses a brilliant mind (not as brilliant as the
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<b>6</b>. By now, admit that your stunted, television saturated, defeated,
silly string intellect has completely lost the thread of the last sentence of
endnote 2--a complex, grammatically perfect, force curve of thought,
mega-annotated and antiphonally structured, which not only introduces a neat
counter-analog of a hilarious futuristic calendar, but also imitates perfectly
in the position and sequence of each endnote number, the precise angles,
relative distance and number of shots in a particular cross-court rally at the
vertex of the 1981 Wimbledon final between Bjorn `the Quiet' Borg and John `the
Temper' McEnroe, within which said nicknames lies a simulacrum of their
personalities (in lieu of actual characters), and providentially an algebraic
formula (Poffenberger's theorum of impossible rallies at Grand Slam events)(<b>7</b>)
for determining who served and won a point so perfectly played it defied such
quotidian notions as winning and losing in the first place, and one so beyond
the realm of language's descriptive power that any attempt at esthetic
reproduction would be doomed (as say Cal O. Extravaganza's ill-conceived
attempt at getting high sniffing the erasers of No. 2 Adirondack pencils by
inserting them shaft and all into his nasal passages) and could only be postulated
by placing the shots as silent numeric vectors on a page and following them via
the text up and down and back and forth as possible simulacra of the perfect
analog of the perfect point: a truth evident only to the original
viewers of the match, who had witnessed shots so perfect they precipitated the
rally's sudden end by becoming humanly impossible to return, and who had then
sighed, regarding the conclusion of the match superfluous and wishing that it
had ended in the middle (the most powerfully affected of which abruptly left
the match, went home and blew their heads up in their microwave ovens),
regardless of the suspense and power of the drama to follow, or the glory of
the winner's triumph and the bitterness of the loser's defeat--and now being
likewise defeated for yet a second time in this monumental multi-clausal
marvel, go back and humbly reread the entirety of endnote 2 straight through to
experience its devastating critique of subsidized time.<br />
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<b>7</b>. Sure you wanted to see Poffenberger's theorum expressed as
an equation (just for a chuckle and the sheer novelty and mind bending pleasure
of a math formula appearing in a novel), but because its existence is purely
speculative, being non-linear and non-confluential, and therefore probably inexpressible,
and none other than Himself has deemed you readers all too ready to peek at the
answers to your math homework in the back of the book (kind of like an ending
to a story), he therefore ultimately denies you the pleasure of Poffenberger
for your own darned good--'cause frankly you're just a little too addicted to
answers, and well, Himself is sorry, but there just aren't any. And
that's what took so many pages not to say. And but if so
nevertheless we submit it takes just as much genius to cut off the juice when
the math is getting really tricky and you're afraid it's not going to work out
on paper and the whole house of cards you built is about to fall flat, every
bit as much genius as it does to commit the problem to paper and work it out in
the hard experiment of mathematical language.<br />
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<b>8</b>. You may now begin reading the simulacrum of non-text.<br />
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<b>9</b>. In this controversial edition of Caruso's non-text, the
979 blank pages are replaced by a single blank underscore, a simulacrum of that vast
silence, which itself is only a simulacrum of the inexpressible language of the
soul, that which wherefore nonetheless(<b>10</b>) seems to say, in the immortal
words of Cal O. Extravaganza, "I am in here". So argue
those who champion this recent edition as accurate in spirit and clarity of
vision. Critics argue that it destroys the vastness of the hunger
for text with which the original version seemed to endlessly tantalize the
reader.<br />
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<b>10</b>. Tautological affectation disguised as an edgy, schizoid transitional
hiccup of generalized post-modern consumer overload (sort of like the verbal
DT's). See And if but so.</span></div>
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edge, so signifiers like The End are virtually meaningless in an amorphous
non-text. It is a matter of record that the author fought valiantly
to no avail to have those words stricken from "the end" of the
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"...never before has the metaphor of silence in the late stage Capitalist
corporate boardroom been so heartbreakingly rendered, and never have 979 blank
pages been so howlingly funny. With every page I turned the joke got
funnier. It was even better the second time I didn't read
it." Adam Caine<br />
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"The genius of oblivion at last has a form: the textless novel. This makes
the maximalist work of Foster Wallace look like a bloated tick feeding on a dog
gorged on Toblerone chocolates and living on borrowed (err--subsidized)
time. Astonishing..." Üde Gunter-Staadt(<b>13</b>)<br />
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"The idea that the first page is identical to the last, and every other
page in between (so that the heterogeneous forms of silence it represents calls
on the reader to endlessly speculate about the novel and the characters that
might have been) so totally blew my mind that I'm still reeling from the
implications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">Finally, fiction that
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the first blank page, a second and then a third, I knew I didn't have to read
on, but the question of whether all the pages were blank, or whether some might
contain the narrative, was staggering, kind of heartbreaking too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It kept drawing me on and I couldn't put it
down until I had flipped through all 979 blank pages. I hadn't
gotten through more than a few pages, though, when I knew that this had totally
changed what the novel could be and the first thing I had to do was write a
harsh review (</span><a href="http://www.rakesprogress.com/rakes_progress/2006/11/its_a_floor_wax.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">http://www.rakesprogress.com/rakes_progress/2006/11/its_a_floor_wax.html</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">) and the next thing I had to do was to begin
a textless novel of my own, only I'd have to do something different like set
the page numbers upside down so the reader has to flip the book and read the
blank pages upside down, or something really cool and irreverent like
that..." Dave Uggers, author of <i>A Heartsickening Work of Stagnant
Mimesis</i>.<br />
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"At last the American reader has found a mode of expression commensurate
to its capacity to chow down: a novel composed of a book jacket
blurb, neatly summarizing the speculative plot and expositing all the most
valuable and obscure nuggets of literary theory embedded in the summary; a
non-existent text to save the reader hours of frustrating, pointless plot; end
notes referencing the non-existent text and possibly other non-existent texts
and media; and a sampling of critical response from literary lites, wannabees
and academic chums of the author, incorporating as much theoretical jargon
as possible, while parroting something the author has said in a recent interview--out
of which profound silence the readers themselves will speculate a novel of
unrivaled genius and unparalleled magnitude." John Caruso (aka Himself),
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I don’t really care if I’m the only one who found J.K. Rowling’s
pseudonymous stunt a disheartening display of celebrity privilege, but
the moment I heard it, I felt an acrimony towards her I had never felt
before.
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I had always admired Rowling, especially her spirit of charity, and
no less the obstacles in life she overcame to gain success as a writer.<br />
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These days Rowling stands in a place that few writers have or ever
will, as somebody who became a billionaire from writing books. And
while her charitable giving leads me to believe she knows how fortunate
she is as a human being, her pseudonymous stunt, and the fact that a
foundation to help other writers who were once like her is not among her
philanthropic priorities, makes me think she doesn’t know how lucky she
is as a writer.<br />
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Rowling stated two things about her short stint as Robert Galbraith
that stuck in my craw. 1. That she’d hoped she could have kept it
secret a little longer and 2. How liberating it was to write under a
pseudonym.<br />
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I couldn’t help think of The Prince and the Pauper, the royal and the poor boy
trading places for a little while. Like the prince in the story, how
much fun it must have been to pretend to be a commoner for a little
while. How carefree you can be when you don’t have to worry about
sales. How unburdening to release a novel as a first time author (fake
biography and all! Ha! Ha!), while still reaping the benefits of
publicity that a first time author seldom gets (one of the things that
gave Rowling away). How liberating not to have people judging her work
as J.K. Rowling. Oh, the burden must be enormous. The expectations
crushing. How gratifying for her to get such good reviews when nobody
knew it was her writing. <br />
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But really, how gratifying can it be for a 9-time novelist to be told
how assured her writing is for a 1st time novelist. It’s hardly making
the short list for the Man Booker Prize. And then, poor J.K.’s cover
was blown and a book that had reportedly sold only 1,500 copies shot to
the top of the Amazon sales list. All because of that name she was just
so eager to hide. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. How hard it
must be to be J.K. Rowling.<br />
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Funny thing though. When the princess left the royal court for her
little escapade, no commoner got to take her place. He was just one of her fictional characters.<br />
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For those of you who don't know about Al Capone's vault and Geraldo
Rivera, which is probably most of you who are on-line tweeting and
weren't alive then, but Geraldo hasn't been sexy since unearthing Al
Capone's empty vault in 1986 on live t.v.. His cred as a journalist and
subsequent sexiness has been in serious decline ever since.<br />
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He got even less sexy with the Geraldo Show, broken nose, skinhead
brawls and all. And then he joined Fox News, well, need I say more? By
the time of the 'hoody' comment we were never going to find Geraldo
sexy again. No matter how toned and youthful his body may be for a 70
year-old, you know, it's just not happening. If sexy is an attitude,
then Geraldo is just too damned annoying to be sexy. He has a t.v.
persona that's seduction proof.<br />
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I haven't even mentioned the face yet, but since it's in the selfie, I
feel I have to. Now, I'm no more ageist than the next person, and no
more shallow about looks, but what do you say about ditching that moustache? It's got to be circa Watergate. I mean, he looks like he's
wearing a permanent and less humorous Groucho Marx disguise. That's
just a silly way to look at 70. <br />
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This picture reminds me of those testosterone ads on-line
where the guy with the really old face, has a body like a 30-year old
competitive body builder. It just doesn't fit.<br />
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I admire the fact that Geraldo hasn't had cosmetic surgery, being in
t.v. and all, but maybe next time he'll shave the old 'stache, trim the
hair, lose the sleazoid tinted glasses, crop the groin out, and, well, the
nose? Can't do anything about that. Or, better yet, since not long
ago I posted about the arch lack of artistry in these meta-mirror
selfies, how about just having an artist photograph his well kept body
for posterity. Do it right.<br />
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What can I say? My wall paper once featured a shirtless shot of me. Then,
I'm only 50. And 50 is the new 30. Plus my face still matches my body.<br />
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We're all going to be 70 one day, God willing, but, unless 70 is the new
40 by the time I get there, I doubt I'll be posting the naked truth
about it.<br />
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Today, in my first live t.v. interview, I learned what happens when it's just you and an interviewer with about 2 minutes to describe
two books and you know the interviewer isn’t listening to a word you are
saying. My mind went blank and the last two sentences of what I wanted
to say were lost and the whole thing went down hill. There’s about 20 to 30 seconds that are really uncomfortable. Feel free to cringe, but I
did recover and I was at least coherent if not concise.<br />
<br />Lesson learned: get your sound bites lined up. Less is better.
Relax and smile. I really wasn’t nervous until my mind went blank.
And I think my mind went blank when I realized from the look on the
interviewer’s face that he wasn’t listening to a thing I said. It's like talking in a vacuum and suddenly you panic. You're throat tightens up, your mouth goes dry and there's nothing you can do. Like an actor forgetting a line. Remember that scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 4, when Larry is in The Producers and forgets his line and the whole production comes to a halt? Well, it wasn't quite that bad, but it felt that way.<br />
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experience to get a handle on.John Carusohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04295831542951585747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672217597835108070.post-32792013123977633242013-07-06T05:56:00.001-07:002013-07-06T05:57:44.836-07:00FROM THE BEACH BOOK AND NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVALS: AWARDS NIGHT<br />
Awards night, for those of us who attended and received awards, was both an energizing and intimate event at New York's Grolier Club. Several things stayed with me from that night. First, how supportive and inclusive the writers I met were. They seemed to understand what my friend and fellow writer, Cindy Hill, told me recently. "Books are not in competition with each other." It's what publishers already know. Having many books that are like each other creates a synergy between them and helps bring attention to them all.<br />
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Even when all the books are so very different. Which is one of the other remarkable things about that night. I was amazed at the scope and variety of the work represented there.<br />
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Lastly, I was taken by how much writer's went through to produce their work. At a time when it may be easier than ever to publish books, it is very difficult to sell books. Despite the odds against commericial success from writing, all of these writers have one thing in common. They have not let anything stop them from telling their stories, and many have made great sacrifices in time, energy and financial resources to complete their projects. Here are the books and links from some of the authors I met and shared with that night.<br />
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From Kizzie Elizabeth Jones, winner in the Children's category of the Beach Book Festival.<br />
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And from Ralph W. Baker Jr. his honorable mention in the General Non-fiction category. <br />
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Here is Midge Leavey's honorable mention for the Children's category:<br />
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And from K. Patrick Malone, winner in the Compiliations/Anthologies category:<br />
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Publisher Danforth Prince accepted the Grand Prize for the Beach Book Festival for author Darwin Porter:<br />
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This is the untold story of the sex slave who was rented out by her husband,
even for rape, to celebrities and high-rollers. Boldly told, it's all here,
naming names with the first published exploration of the 1970s sex goddess who
was transformed into a feminist icon of the 1980s. To this iconic and overheated
saga, Blood Moon applies its award-winning formula to sex-industry players from
the world of entertainment and politics.</h3>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Linda-Lovelaces-Deep-Throat/dp/1936003333" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Linda-Lovelaces-Deep-Throat/dp/1936003333</a> <br />
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From Ronita Johnson, honorable mention in the Biography/Autobiography category <i>Coming to Forgiveness</i><br />
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Finally, from Alicia Young, winner of the How-to category for <i>The Savvy Girl's Guide to Grace</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.savvy-life.com/" target="_blank">http://www.savvy-life.com/</a><br />
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