SUZI GABLIK
BARBARA FORST
layabout lady d'Artagnan and horns are on our head the name
equipped with a mordantly tells us. We grew them and must
twisted set of nerve endings sit in wisdom of them-like
formerly reserved for shy Sitting Bull. Like Black Elk
witch-doctors and old crippled
Afterwards it was elose upon
1970 and had I been Gulliver I
hunters in the Kalahari desert.
Its Saturday night and cold would have waded up through
again. I am uninspired. Dinner the still-beautiful ocean, gazing
was good, I watched television down on Cape Henry and
for awhile-a comedy. I thought Rehoboth Beach Atlantic City
about Mary who has been very and carefully avoiding the greasy
sick and my sister who continues shores of northern New Jersey
to search for her dog, a small crawled back through the tunnel
female Sheltie lost 12 days ago into New York. Here where we
in Bedford Stuyvesant. I looked are all children and some have
at a German magazine, amazing story book names.
pictures of Sudanese tribesmen"
in a German weekly-Leni
Reifenstahl the photographer 1there must be some good reason
thought she was dead. The for a liason of hatred among the
physical perfection of them
Last week I was in them who do we not know-but
Virginia-land of my birth. a singular ambiotic thought
And coming back, I thought
world's intelligentsia-among
Horses and statesmen, elegance disbanded the whole thing and I
reserve pride, mayhem, disorder, try not to be surprised. It was
solidity. and disappearance partly because I heard an
operate at the same risk there, as unprepared exercise-musical
where I am now on Spring St.exereise-based phrase for phrase
Perhaps life has an indigenous on Otis Redding's Try A Little
style we aren't able to compute Tenderness and thought again of
yet; no one I know is dirty. him and all the people I know
Reading situations show who made it down at least one
dramatic similarities which have rabbit hole. Anyway Jill is one,
evertying to do with stress or will be.
reaction. So I wondered whether Certainly there is a thread
the present scene isn't connected here. Or there is glue and you
with a kind of cross-national take the tube out and squeeze it,
(with acknowledgments to
Anthony Storr and R.D. Laing)
(The blanks are to be filled in at
will from the extra word list at
the end.)
our experience, or life 16. struggle
becomes
But the disadvantage of
that it tends toward
cannot fit new
or escape from our
history of
admirably
because someone notices been flipped
something which cannot be 23. the lineaments of gratified Sanitation (ours). It all adds up since it is first of all imprecative,
17. comical effects
18. live out an untenable olfactory impairment. (Ten Or if that doesn't work heat
We
is
adjectives there for clean etc.) electricity, surely there's an
Well our vocabular y answer. Or rather a way since
magnification is deeply indebted answer closes and way opens.
to the Government (ours and And that way we are back at the
theirs), Technology (theirs), Parthenon.
Wars (theirs), and Intimate Dancing enters into it too
position
19. persistent inconsistencies
20. heart of hearts
into old
The
Miss Johnston possesses a mind
21, sexual
illustrates
not unlike that of Lewis Carroll.
If she is ever out of an academie
job, some manufacturer will
22. when inside and outside have
progresses
oertainly ions to practical fitted into the existing
to some ultimately collapsible mascular in that a sea anemone
vision like King Kong making a
nightstick out of the Empire anemo ne are exactly the same
State Bldg.--not to kill wound or and that is muscle, or where
scare-merely visual addenda, a
desire
24. true sanity
Miss Johnson has concerned
and the motion function of a sea
problems. For, like Carroll. she
is concerned to turn things herself with showing us how to 25. noncommittal
upside down and inside out, ande 26. resent being 'used"
to in order to make better
sense. I feel sure she is a wizard
at solving especially thoseneed a new
with a content.
In general, she employs her
inventiveness in attempting to
tell us how the human mind
works and to explain that
We cannot be objective in
dealing with new
escape from this dilemma, Words.
which themselves may
become rigidified. Perhaps we
which connects
things together in a new way,
27. embodying a fiction
28. the necessity of applying gargantuan tidbit for our and inviolate of distinction.
muscle and motion are the same
are
Inviolate movement I thought is
Soap to make a lather
29. switches from one topic to
rapacious dreamless eyes.
After that I got very sick. Ito breathe to vibrate and be
would say it was a combination fertile, to procreate and
the next
which neither
nor
a
which links 30. very archaic instinetual of the atmosphere, the climate to graduate intoo formlessness
is a
and the time. Thats safe to say.
the way to new ideas. We 31. confusion in a public Mainly the atmosphere and some
delicious river oysters I ate to
make peace. They never really
had a chance. Which is why
only 34. it is an achievement to Athenian centipedes-upon
the whose structure the Parthanon is
based cast shadows in the sun
forces
and be born again changed:
to assume life and resume
to be modified
to be both assigned and
resulted
to be intrinsic and mutilated
and multiply
and outer exeulpated
harmonies which are
returns
All bending being ares retracing
tensions produ ced by the
world's winds in the world's
incompatibles and thus opens
have in our own it situation
remains to be seen whether we 32. system of communication
shall get the special
To those who think of
as they
33. real bodily excitement
as well
impinge upon our senses, for
how we deal with such
depends upon what has gone
before: the patterns which have
already been established. These
patterns make us and also
tend to
in connection with
suggeston will seem fantastic.
realize one is not necessarily
who others take one to be
the
and are well-known viaducts for
drowning ants. One can always
use a real idea
Are the clothes the
excresences of 'eulture?
heated my thoughts and rolled foliage and seas.
on the floor with them wait-for
35. fulfillment
36. paradoxical implications
filling in the missing words in the 37. our perception of 'reality
Extra Word List (to be used for
, which may no longer
39. transitional
40. simultaneously unrelated
e appropriate. This way of accompanying biographical 38. pull in opposite direetions
sketch game)
1. removing the linch pin
2. the usual state of affairs
3. any theory of sexuality
4. equivalent operations
5. promote conflict
6. it is impossible to leave and
impossible to stay
7. information
8. twinges of pain all over one's
body
9. the wrone end of a telescope
10. a curious spiral
11. 'insinuendoes"
12. driving the other person
looking at mental functioning is
not incompatible with
psychoanalytic theory, which
maintains that neurosis in the
present is the result of and of
patterns of behavior which may
have been adaptive in early
childhood, but which are no
And who are we? Barbara
levels
41. uses the other merely as athem to win lto stand me up from the Latin is foreign' or a
hook to hang projections on again. I wondered about Arthur
42. possible types of disjunctive Kopit's Sitting Bull-someone
relations
43. steps off the end of the his name means. Then it seemed began, animal herds had
world
'stranger, Jill from old English
or Scotch is firt or 'wench
Tribes had dispersed, cities
had described him to me-what
to me I knew that finally the vanished or been slaughtered and
contained the man. For a men became their keepers. For
is a powerful sexual creature these names man turned to
longer so in adult life.
If our minds did not work in
this way, we should constantly
be confronted with chaos. A
peron who has never been able
to but who is enabled to do
, is at first faced with a
which only
gradually begins to make sense.
BARBARA FORST
That is to say, in part, what and if he sits, it is in the wisdom himself, and invented not an
has been forgotten. So that of this knowledge-the wisdom animal but a prototype man to
perhaps what Jill is: is that Jill is of the body and the tribe-the
really a time-keeper, a human way back to being one with God
metronome-announcer of because we are ose with our
reverence. He was a control and
our names tell the story.
Perhaps Jill will choreograph
so by
meaningless
стаry
13. to them the box is the whole
world
14. inter experience
15. hierarchy of intentions
seasons and heeder of cosmis
warnings. A human raggle-taggle but thie Grothers and sisters, a dance for a thousand
people-running on all
fours-and schedule it for the
anti-freudian geiger counter, a Otherwise there will be answers
20th X sorceress cressed like a
It is the
of the brain which
enables this to happen. We have
to have into which we can fit
but the way will be lost. Our
spring in a nearby forest
