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...<strong>Les</strong> <strong>Lettres</strong> <strong>Tristes</strong>...<br />

Ajemian & Bismuth December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight <strong>Foxy</strong> <strong>Production</strong>, New York, New York<br />

Tract Throw, May 1963 Isidore Isou and Maurice Lamaître


An amazing finish in the<br />

women’s 1500m at the<br />

North South Games as<br />

Dickie was able to come<br />

from behind to clinch the<br />

prize from Buttry, whom<br />

she had hounded all season.<br />

She tried but Buttry couldn’t<br />

hold Dickie off as she<br />

slipped through the crack in<br />

the final turn, successfully<br />

implementing a plan that<br />

she had mounted without<br />

success in previous events.<br />

In an interview with<br />

North South Times Buttry<br />

said: “I knew I had to<br />

throw down when I saw<br />

her making a move at the<br />

first bell. I decided to wait<br />

and wear down her resolve<br />

until the last turn. You can<br />

see her running scared in<br />

this photo, knowing that<br />

I am going to fuck her up<br />

if she ever comes near my<br />

boyfriend again. In fact<br />

right then I had just finished<br />

saying<br />

‘I can run over to your<br />

house so fast, you won’t<br />

know what hit you!’”<br />

We can only assume<br />

that Buttry sealed her own<br />

fate by giving Dickie the<br />

added motivation needed<br />

to defeat the overheard<br />

uttering archaic Coptic<br />

infertility curses against<br />

other female opponents<br />

in the Berlin, London,<br />

Chicago, and New York<br />

marathons. In the 2005<br />

NY marathon Ejigayihu<br />

Dibaba was famously heard<br />

pronouncing the kostre<br />

tayu death curse against<br />

Meselech Melkamu for<br />

laughing too loudly at one<br />

of her husband’s jokes.<br />

Melkamu dropped out at<br />

Text to Shit performance 2006<br />

mile 17 and Dibaba<br />

went on to win the<br />

race.<br />

Trash talking is<br />

commonplace in<br />

most sports, and<br />

one of the hallmarks<br />

of an accomplished<br />

competitor is the<br />

ability to ignore<br />

it and focus on<br />

the task at hand.<br />

Additionally, the<br />

public perception<br />

of Women’s<br />

running events is<br />

that of a small and<br />

somewhat tightly<br />

knit community<br />

of niche athletes<br />

who support one<br />

another on and off<br />

the field. However,<br />

the fact that these athletes<br />

exist in a relatively cloistered<br />

community means that<br />

the availability of sexual<br />

partners is likewise limited,<br />

since runners most often<br />

pair with other runners,<br />

and it is not uncommon<br />

to see the realignment of<br />

sexual partners within the<br />

group, causing emotional<br />

disturbances that are often<br />

amplified when rivals come<br />

together on the track or<br />

trail.<br />

Surprising as it may seem,<br />

animosity between female<br />

runners can be traced<br />

through antiquity, as far<br />

back as bronze age statuary.<br />

There exist several Turkic<br />

and Macedonian clay figures<br />

clearly showing a female<br />

runner with her foot upon<br />

the prone figure of another<br />

female figure.<br />

In the Balkan<br />

December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />

Text to Shit<br />

By Marie Sochor<br />

texte à chier<br />

Ingrédients : feuille azyme, encre alimentaire noire<br />

Fabriqué par Marie Sochor en septembre 2006<br />

À consommer avant fin 2008<br />

Dickie Slides Past Babcock & Buttry to Clinch It!<br />

By Sebastian Clough Grudge match in women’s running nothing new<br />

material we encounter<br />

the figure of ‘Red Vespa’<br />

who was recorded in the<br />

Krantijecks Codex as “the<br />

greatest of the courtesan<br />

runners who would run<br />

to seek out prizes placed<br />

in the field by the wazir<br />

Szerkmedis”, and that her<br />

method for thinning the<br />

pack was “ a high legged<br />

shrieking stampede of her<br />

rivals”. Below is a recreation<br />

of her probable dress and<br />

style of stampede.<br />

A l t h o u g h<br />

stampede techniques are<br />

relatively unheard of in<br />

today’s competitive events,<br />

there is no doubt that the<br />

‘fury of a woman scorned’<br />

has not diminished. Is it<br />

healthy for the sport? That<br />

would depend entirely on<br />

your point of view and how<br />

you feel about the efficacy<br />

of death curses.<br />

If I were Buttry, I’d make<br />

sure the door was locked,<br />

because Dickie can run<br />

really, really fast.<br />

RedVespa<br />

collection of<br />

the Quai Branly,<br />

Paris<br />

CIGAR<br />

By Robert Wilhite & Guy de Cointet<br />

Presented : 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, California,<br />

1977.<br />

CIGAR was a collaborative performance artwork by Guy<br />

de Cointet and Robert Wilhite. The piece was an interplay<br />

of three distinct sections. The first and third sections were<br />

dramatic monologues delivered by Marianne Duganne. The<br />

individual scripts were playful, oblique stories that linked the<br />

simple abstraction of the props to the familiar, everyday world<br />

of ordinary objects and experiences. These sections framed<br />

the central portion in which hypnosis and the spoken word<br />

were intended to manipulate the subliminal consciousness of<br />

the audience and affect their experience.<br />

Two oddly shaped paintings were the focus of the<br />

first performance section. Random printed letters, organized<br />

and arranged on white backgrounds, filled the design space<br />

of the paintings.<br />

Each painting<br />

was similarly<br />

encased in thin,<br />

colorful painted<br />

frames. The story<br />

line linked bothe<br />

paintings and<br />

brought order<br />

and meaning to<br />

the seemingly<br />

r a n d o m<br />

placement of the<br />

Prop for Cigar<br />

alphabet letters and color details. For this section, Marianne<br />

wore a bright red dress with matching red shoes.<br />

The second section was a hypnotic induction designed<br />

to influence the perception of the final monologue. A 36 “<br />

diameter black and white spiral « hypno-disc » was the central<br />

object that spun before the audience for the second section of<br />

the performance. The audience was instructed to focus their<br />

on the spinning disc while this single image was coordinated<br />

with a taped hypnotic induction and hypnotic suggestion. The<br />

suggestion was simple : the solor of the clothes Marianne<br />

would wear for the final section of CIGAR would be perceived<br />

by the audience as being in the complimentary hue of their<br />

actual colors.<br />

The last portion of CIGAR was a monologue relating<br />

a saga entitled « My Father’s Diary. » This large book with its<br />

green painted wooden binding and thick matte board pages,<br />

chronicled the life and wartime adventures of the performer’s<br />

father. Each page was very different and abstract, and as it was<br />

turned, each illustrated an episode or scene in the emotionally<br />

dense narrative. For this section, Marianne wore the same<br />

model of dress and shoes that she had worn in the first part,<br />

but in emerald green.<br />

The entire piece lasted a little more than an hour and<br />

was performed only once.<br />

The profiles of the props and their order of<br />

appearance are represented on the CIGAR flyer.<br />

Looking Up Window<br />

By Kirsten Mosher<br />

The right back passenger window acts like a skylight. I see sky.<br />

It’s over my head because the car is turned over. I turn the<br />

crank without the guidance of gravity on the down swing. The<br />

glass barrier slides out of my way. Nobody else is in the car. I<br />

am a passenger and I have to get out. I hoist, scraping myself<br />

up through the open square rectangle. Through the hatch I sit<br />

myself on the tabled door roof. Nothing is happening. It must<br />

have already happened. The engine is off. The wheels aren’t<br />

spinning. The car is fairly stable if not on all fours. I slip jump<br />

down the belly of the car. Now it’s a wall backing me up as I<br />

get my footing on the desert floor, a sandy white room as far as<br />

the eye can see.


December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />

By Jon Pestoni<br />

A Distracting Melody for <strong>Les</strong> <strong>Tristes</strong><br />

By Jason Ajemian<br />

CHECK AND CZECH<br />

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A Transcription<br />

of an Interview<br />

with Dr. Jeffrey<br />

K, Zeig, Ph.D.,<br />

Director of the<br />

Milton H. Erickson<br />

Foundation,<br />

Phoenix, AZ<br />

For more information on Dr. Zeig and<br />

the Foundation, see:<br />

www.erickson-foundation.org<br />

Q: Could you maybe start by telling<br />

us a bit about Dr. Erickson, his<br />

life, his schooling, how he started<br />

working as a therapist?<br />

A: Dr. Erickson was born in a<br />

three-walled log cabin in Aurum,<br />

Nevada. The fourth wall of the<br />

cabin was the mountain; he went<br />

East in a covered wagon, which<br />

may have been a metaphor for his<br />

life, that is, doing things differently.<br />

And he then grew up on a farm<br />

in rural Wisconsin. His schooling<br />

was very simple—he had to walk a<br />

great distance to go to high school.<br />

Eventually he went to college.<br />

Erickson was the third of nine<br />

children born to his mother; she<br />

had eleven pregnancies, only nine<br />

surviving. I think only Erickson<br />

and one sister finished high school<br />

and went on to college. Erickson,<br />

of course, got his medical degree<br />

and then a master’s degree.<br />

Erickson developed polio when<br />

he was about 17; he was a good<br />

high school athlete and then spent<br />

about a year confined to his home<br />

where he hovered over death.<br />

Eventually he had to teach himself<br />

how to walk, and learn how to<br />

negotiate three-dimensional space<br />

again. As he recalled, he was very<br />

impressed by his family physician<br />

and said that when he grew up,<br />

he wanted to become a doctor. I<br />

don’t know why he wanted to work<br />

as a therapist but certainly it was<br />

his biological disposition to be a<br />

psychotherapist.<br />

Q: What is the Ericksonian<br />

approach to psychotherapy? How<br />

does it work and what would you<br />

define as its fundamental aspects?<br />

A: An Ericksonian approach to<br />

psychotherapy is one in which we<br />

conceive psychotherapy to be the<br />

problem: The problem is being<br />

in psychotherapy; the solution to<br />

the problem is getting the person<br />

out of psychotherapy, living life<br />

independently of psychotherapy<br />

as soon as possible. Ericksonian<br />

psychotherapy is basically a<br />

structural approach, and by that<br />

I mean that we don’t spend a lot<br />

of time analyzing the roots of the<br />

problem; we deal more with the<br />

present structure, helping people<br />

to live more effectively in the now<br />

and develop that effectiveness<br />

into their future. It’s a short-term<br />

psychotherapy, so the patients, for<br />

example, that I see in my practice I<br />

try to see as few times as possible.<br />

Bu, like an internal medicine doctor,<br />

I’m there for them over the course<br />

of a lifetime, and they can come back<br />

to me for sessions when they need<br />

to. One of the fundamental aspects<br />

of Ericksonian psychotherapy<br />

is eliciting resources: You take<br />

the position that patients have<br />

u n r e c o g n i z e d<br />

resources. For example, depressed<br />

patients have experience in their<br />

history about changing their<br />

mood; smokers know how to be<br />

comfortable without a ;cigarette;<br />

schizophrenic patients even know<br />

how to speak in a clear and cogent<br />

way, but somehow people are<br />

out of touch with the essential<br />

resources that they have. Part<br />

of the paradox of Ericksonian<br />

therapy, which is based in hypnosis,<br />

is that we work to stimulate into<br />

play previously dormant resources.<br />

The idea is to wake people up to<br />

their potentialities, not to put<br />

them to sleep, and a fundamental<br />

approach that’s used is one called,<br />

“utilization,” which is a philosophy<br />

that says that whatever exists in<br />

the greater therapy situation can<br />

be harnessed and utilized. Rather<br />

than analyzing, the approach is<br />

based in utilizing. It’s hard to find<br />

a simple example of this utilization<br />

approach but all of Erickson’s cases<br />

are based in this idea, so if the<br />

patient was small, Erickson would<br />

find a way of utilizing that. If the<br />

patient was intellectual, he’d find a<br />

way of utilizing that. If the patient<br />

was resistant, Erickson would find<br />

a way of utilizing that. I’d advise<br />

readers to look at any of Erickson’s<br />

cases. You would find that the<br />

fulcrum of change is utilization;<br />

it’s how Erickson helps the person<br />

utilize previously unrecognized<br />

potentialities, and from this vantage<br />

point there are no problems, just<br />

opportunities for utilization.<br />

Q: A substantial part of Ericksonian<br />

therapy involves form of clinical<br />

hypnosis and trance induction.<br />

Could you start by telling us a bit<br />

more of what a trance state is, how<br />

it is different from a waking state,<br />

and how hypnosis works?<br />

A: I could do that, but it would<br />

probably take an encyclopedia to<br />

be able to answer that question.<br />

Basically, we could think of trance<br />

as being a “state.” but I use that<br />

term in a very loose sense because<br />

we could describe intensity as<br />

being a state, or curiosity as being<br />

a state, or interest as being a state,<br />

or love as being a state, and we<br />

would know that love was different<br />

from curiosity, but it would be<br />

pretty hard to define what the<br />

difference was in clear, intellectual<br />

terms. Phenomenologically we<br />

would know the difference, so if<br />

I try to deconstruct trance into its<br />

phenomenological components, I<br />

would say it’s some combination<br />

of changing the focus of<br />

attention, changing the intensity<br />

of experience, experiencing<br />

dissociation, and responding to<br />

the implication of communication,<br />

all of which happen in a context<br />

that’s defined as hypnosis, either<br />

implicitly or explicitly. So for<br />

some people, if they just focus<br />

their attention internally, they say<br />

I’m in a trance. For others, if the<br />

intensity of relaxation increases<br />

they say I’m in a trance. Or if they<br />

don’t feel their body or the passage<br />

of the time in the way that they<br />

normally do; or if their arm starts<br />

moving in a dissociative way; or<br />

if memories suddenly happen in<br />

a dissociated way; then they say<br />

“I’m in a trance,” Or if people<br />

start to respond without realizing<br />

the cues that caused the response,<br />

they characterize that as being in<br />

a trance. So, for any given person<br />

I don’t know exactly what criteria<br />

that would indicate this person<br />

is in a trance, but when people in<br />

a situation defined as hypnosis<br />

experience some part of those<br />

components, they can be said<br />

to be in a trance… A trance is a<br />

physiological/contextual/psycho/<br />

social combination of components,<br />

and when people access this state,<br />

they are more capable of accessing<br />

those previously dormant capacities<br />

that I was talking about before.<br />

Q: How does Erickson’s approach<br />

to hypnotherapy differ from<br />

that of other practitioners? How<br />

would you describe his interest in<br />

hypnotism and hypnotherapy, what<br />

did he think such methods achieved<br />

or made possible? Why?<br />

A: Well, in modern psychotherapy,<br />

there are many different<br />

approaches, some that are based<br />

in psychoanalysis, others that are<br />

based in a humanistic tradition,<br />

and others still that are based<br />

in a behavioral tradition, or in<br />

a cognitive behavior tradition.<br />

Erickson’s therapy was considered<br />

uncommon therapy. As a matter<br />

of fact, one of definitive books<br />

written about Erickson, written by<br />

Jay Haley, is called “Uncommon<br />

Therapy.” Erickson used hypnosis<br />

as the foundation of his work, but<br />

he didn’t necessarily use formal<br />

trance, so his was a therapy that was<br />

guided by hypnosis, if we think of<br />

hypnosis as a technique of impact<br />

and as a state in which people<br />

can more readily access resources.<br />

Erickson would take techniques<br />

from hypnosis and apply them.<br />

We call that “hypnotherapy<br />

without trance.” Erickson called it<br />

“naturalistic hypnosis.” The essence<br />

of the approach is that it is a brief,<br />

solution-focused approach—<br />

solution-focused meaning that it<br />

builds on strengths.<br />

We could consider hypnosis to<br />

be the mother of psychotherapy.<br />

Many great practitioners, for<br />

example Sigmund Freud, started<br />

with hypnosis, Joseph Wolpe in the<br />

behaviorist tradition, started with<br />

hypnosis, but many of these experts<br />

diverged from hypnosis and found<br />

other methods of eliciting change<br />

that were more suited to their<br />

personality. Erickson stayed with<br />

hypnosis and made that a mainstay.<br />

If you were to study the history of<br />

hypnosis, in the 18 th century you’d<br />

study about Mesmer, in the 19 th<br />

century you’d study about Braid and<br />

Charcot and Bernheim, but in the<br />

20 th century you would study about<br />

Erickson; he really dominated the<br />

field of hypnosis.<br />

Q: An important part of Erickson’s<br />

practice seems to involve not just<br />

language or dialogue, but a very<br />

sophisticated use of language. In<br />

the “February Man,” Ernest Rossi<br />

writes that he was often surprised<br />

by the complex and sophisticated<br />

motivations behind each and every<br />

one of Erickson’s phrases. Could<br />

you talk a little bit about this aspect<br />

of his practice, and more specifically<br />

about his use of language games<br />

such as punning, metaphors, and<br />

analogies?<br />

A: Well, this gets in to the area<br />

of art. If you want to increase<br />

impact, one of the things that you<br />

use is precision. If you want to<br />

increase impact, one of the things<br />

that you use is discontinuity. If<br />

you want to increase impact, one<br />

of the things that you do is use<br />

unusual communication such as<br />

punning, metaphors, and analogies.<br />

Think about a poet, when a poet<br />

communicates something, for<br />

example Carl Sandburg wrote a<br />

very short poem:<br />

The fog comes/ on little cat feet.<br />

/ It sits looking/ over harbor and<br />

city/ on silent haunches/ and then<br />

moves on.<br />

Now that’s unusual communication.<br />

Artists, poets, dramatists know that<br />

when you’re using a lot of precision,<br />

a lot of subtlety, when you’re using<br />

discontinuities and unusual forms<br />

of communication, it elicits a<br />

change in mood and perspective. If<br />

you just want a person to learn facts,<br />

then you can give them didactic<br />

information. But if you want to<br />

change their mood and perspective,<br />

you need to use techniques from<br />

art. And so I think that it’s easier<br />

to describe Erickson from the<br />

perspective of Art than it is to<br />

describe him from the perspective<br />

of psychotherapy, especially<br />

contemporary psychotherapy, much<br />

of contemporary psychotherapy is<br />

based on providing information.<br />

Q: Erickson and Rossi often speak<br />

of their approach as a two-level<br />

communication with the patient?<br />

What does this mean? How does<br />

this work?<br />

A: Well, really all communication is<br />

multiple-level, because there’s both<br />

a psychological aspect and a social<br />

aspect. The great linguist, Noam<br />

Chomsky, talked about the fact that<br />

there’s a surface structure and a deep<br />

structure. Gregory Bateson, the<br />

great anthropologist, talked about<br />

the fact that every communication<br />

has a report and a command. So,<br />

every communication has content<br />

but also there’s a message that<br />

frames the content and says what<br />

to do about it. You could say, “Hi!”<br />

and mean on the level of command,<br />

“Let’s spend some time together.”<br />

You could say, “Hi!” and on the<br />

level of command, mean, “Let’s<br />

just have a brief social encounter.”<br />

So, every communication is<br />

multiple level, and in hypnosis, we<br />

try to get the person to respond<br />

not to the indicative level, the social<br />

level, but to the injunctive level, or<br />

the psychological level, which is<br />

also essential in influence. If you<br />

want to have impact, then you<br />

increase the multi-level nature of<br />

the communication. Again, think<br />

about poetry. Poetry uses multilevel<br />

communication because it’s<br />

designed to influence mood and<br />

perspective, and in the same way,<br />

Erickson would use multi-level<br />

communication because he really<br />

wanted to have impact in changing<br />

mood and perspective.<br />

Q: One of the aspects of<br />

Erickson’s dialogues that we found<br />

to be of greatest interest to us were<br />

the breaks, departures, and other<br />

ruptures of sense or of trains of<br />

thought that he staged throughout<br />

his conversation with his patients.<br />

He seems to want to continually<br />

distract his patient, to direct their<br />

attentions to one thing, only to jar<br />

it away towards something else.<br />

Could you discuss this aspect of<br />

his technique a bit more? What was<br />

its purpose? What does it allow him<br />

to do with the patient?<br />

A: If you watch a movie, you<br />

know that the movie is based in<br />

discontinuity, and the discontinuities<br />

are a way of modulating tension,<br />

which then captures attention,<br />

which then has an effect on mood


So Erickson’s use of discontinuities, again,<br />

was similar to the poet’s, because poets<br />

would use these discontinuities in their<br />

composition, and certainly moviemakers<br />

and dramatists use this kind of discontinuity.<br />

When one normally thinks about hypnosis,<br />

one thinks of it as a gradual slide into a<br />

soporific state. When Erickson started an<br />

induction he often started by increasing<br />

the tension and then decrease the tension,<br />

and then introduce discontinuities, and<br />

then he would increase, and decrease,<br />

and increase and decrease the tension<br />

over the course of the induction, also<br />

during the utilization period of trance.<br />

That is exactly as the dramatist does. The<br />

purpose of destabilizaiton is to have impact<br />

because if you’re talking in a monotone<br />

and your communication is completely<br />

symmetrical, it’s not going to have as much<br />

impact as communication that contains<br />

discontintuities, especially when the impact<br />

that you want to have is to alter mood and<br />

perspective.<br />

Q: In conclusion, as you know, we are<br />

both artists, and thus are approaching this<br />

from a very different angle. In our previous<br />

conversations, you spoke of how you often<br />

looked to art and literature for inspiration in<br />

your practice. What do you think are some<br />

aspects of Ericksonian psychotherapy that<br />

could be of use to artists, and conversely,<br />

could you tell us a bit more about the type<br />

of things in the arts that have inspired you<br />

in your own practice?<br />

A: Well, ironically, it’s curious that you<br />

contact me to include aspects of Ericksonian<br />

therapy to inform the arts because the<br />

project that most interests me now is what<br />

psychotherapists can learn from commercial<br />

filmmakers, and…social psychologists, The<br />

ellipsis is there because I think therapists<br />

can learn more from filmmakers than they<br />

can from social psychologists. When we<br />

study the structure of impact, we can look<br />

at the way that, for example, a moviemaker<br />

stages a particular frame, or sets up a<br />

dramatic moment in a series of small steps,<br />

or foreshadows a future event earlier in the<br />

movie. Well, these were things that Erickson<br />

did. I think that Erickson, who was very<br />

well-read, took a lot of his models from<br />

literature, so that the kinds of techniques<br />

that Thomas Mann would use, where for<br />

example Mann would bring a character in<br />

against an emotional background. Then<br />

some fifty or a hundred pages later against<br />

the same emotional background, that<br />

character would reemerge suddenly. That<br />

was a way of setting up dramatic impact.<br />

A lot of my work is teaching therapists<br />

around the world, but when I try to explain<br />

to therapists the idea of being strategic and<br />

setting up a future event; and the idea of<br />

using multi-level communication; and the<br />

idea of using discontinuities, their eyes start<br />

to glaze over. But when I can appeal to their<br />

media literacy and I can show them a small<br />

section of a movie, and demonstrate to<br />

them how the moviemaker uses those same<br />

techniques to have impact, then, because<br />

of people’s media literacy, they can more<br />

easily understand Erickson. So I can show<br />

my students a segment of a movie, and then<br />

I can tell them of a case of Erickson’s and<br />

rather than looking at traditional psychology<br />

as the foundation or the lens through which<br />

to understand Erickson, looking at Erickson<br />

through the lens of the filmmaker makes it<br />

easier to understand and integrate Erickson’s<br />

techniques. So in my workshops I’ll have<br />

exercises where my students will practice,<br />

for example, setting up a future event,<br />

foreshadowing, or using discontinuities,<br />

and learning how to have better impact by<br />

taking models from art. Now, the project of<br />

using commercial filmmakers, really that’s<br />

only a metaphor, because I’m interested in<br />

poets and dramatists and visual artists of all<br />

persuasions, including architects, because<br />

these are people who work to subtly influence<br />

mood and perspective. But, commercial<br />

filmmakers, because their medium combines<br />

music and visual composition—they turn<br />

out to be very useful in the way that I train<br />

psychotherapists, because there work is<br />

so multi-dimensional, and I can illustrate<br />

so much about impact by looking at the<br />

structural aspects of film. The viewer of<br />

the film and the artist create a moment of<br />

interpersonal impact. The viewer is having<br />

a relationship with the movie. The movie<br />

is about interpersonal impact. I hope that<br />

when the cinematographer and editor and<br />

the costume designer and set designer,<br />

etc. get together, they are thinking with<br />

intent about having an impact. I try to<br />

deconstruct those techniques and try to<br />

help therapists understand how to improve<br />

their communication by using those<br />

techniques. For therapists, communication<br />

is an underused medium; therapists don’t<br />

use all of the potentialities that are inherent<br />

in the medium of communication. I try to<br />

get therapists to explore the outer edges of<br />

communication, and how to better use their<br />

medium to have constructive impact on<br />

their patients. Art is provides a model from<br />

which influence can be studied.<br />

The Day’s<br />

Colors<br />

By Marie de Brugerolle<br />

Blue Monday<br />

Orange Tuesday<br />

Black Wednesday<br />

Yellow Thursday<br />

Green Friday<br />

Red and White Saturday<br />

Gray Sunday<br />

Blue as an orange<br />

Red as a peony<br />

Emerald yellow<br />

Scarlet rose<br />

Salmon blue<br />

Venetian green<br />

Indigo brown<br />

Ink orange<br />

Italic yellow<br />

Petroleum carmine<br />

Charcoal gray, like a tomato<br />

Seeing everything double<br />

Seeing everything gold<br />

Seeing everything Naple’s<br />

yellow<br />

Blond smoke<br />

Where does the white go<br />

when the snow melts ?<br />

SURVIVOR:<br />

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On an Island: say Martinque<br />

5 weeks in a beautiful mansion, all the alcohol one can drink. One week,<br />

‘on safari’, tents and provisions provided w/o instructions.<br />

6 weeks total (+ Reunion Show)<br />

One rule: no hitting/ initiator of fight is kicked off island.<br />

Show is a competition, America votes via text message only (within<br />

continental United States)<br />

Winner receives $500,000 shopping spree<br />

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5),6) The two Younger-ish Hot Blonds (Orange County)*<br />

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Sculpture<br />

By Bob Wilhite<br />

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art LA CA Stept 27-Oct 5 th 1977, duration 20 min<br />

The performance was given to ten or less people per night for one week. The audiences were<br />

seated in front of a rotating spiral disc where they heard the following hypnotic induction spoken<br />

in a soothing monotone.<br />

Would everyone please be seated if you have not already done so. Make yourself as comfortable<br />

as possible. It would be best if you sat up in your chair and placed both feet on the floor in<br />

front of you. Make yourself as relaxed as possible. Give attention to the disc rotating in front of<br />

you. Breathe deeply and relax. Watch the spiral and relax. Watch the spiral. Watch it very closely.<br />

Don’t take your eyes off the spiral even for a moment. Concentrate all your attention on it.<br />

Spinning round and round, round and round. Watch it carefully. Breathe deeply and relax. You<br />

are feeling warm and comfortable. Relax and think only of sleep. Breathe deeply, very deeply.<br />

Soon your eyes will become very tired. Your eyelids so very heavy. You will hardly be able to<br />

keep them open. You will have to shut your eyes. When you shut them you will be in deep sound<br />

restful sleep. A deep sound restful sleep. Breathe very deeply and relax. Do not take your eyes<br />

away from the spiral even for a moment. Strain your eyes just a little to see the spiral. Soon your<br />

eyes will become very tired. They are beginning to water. Your eyelids are heavy, very heavy.<br />

Keep watching the spiral. Watch it. Watch it. Your arms and legs feel relaxed. You are so tired,<br />

you want to go to sleep. Think only of sleep. You are going into relaxed and restful sleep. With<br />

every breath you take your eyes are more and more tired. So very tired, keep them open. You<br />

must shut your eyes. Do not resist it. You have to shut your eyes. Shut your eyes. Shut them…<br />

shut them…shut them right now. Breathe deeply, very deeply. With every breath you are falling<br />

deeper and deeper into sleep. So very tired. You cannot keep them open. You must shut your<br />

eyes. Do not resist it. You have to shut your eyes. Shut your eyes. Shut them…shut them…shut<br />

them right now. Breathe deeply, very deeply. With every breath you are falling deeper and deeper<br />

into sleep. A peaceful sleep.You are paying attention only to my voice. Nothing else seems to<br />

matter. Nothing will disturb you. Let yourself relax competely now. It is very pleasant to feel so<br />

relaxed, so relaxed. As though all your cares have gone away. As though nothing else matters at<br />

all. You are so listless now. Give way to this feeling. Let yourself go. Drifting deeper and deeper.<br />

Deeper with every breath you take.<br />

You are listening only to my voice. Nothing else matters. You noice a feeling of heaviness in<br />

your arms and legs. Your breathing is slow and easy… slow and easy. Give way to this drowsy<br />

listlessness. Let all of your muscles relax. Relax them completely. Do not mind if your head falls<br />

forward or to the side... it will be perfectly comfortable. You are giving my voice your complete<br />

attention. The art of memory is the art of attention and retention. You must pay attention in<br />

order to remember. People who do not pay attention do not remember. Relax, breathe deeply,<br />

and pay attention only to my voice…only to my voice. You have always been able to picture<br />

objects in your mind. From a simple description you have been able to see crystal clear images.<br />

Using your ability to concentrate and see objects in your mind, I am going to show you a piece<br />

of sculpture I have made.<br />

The sculpture is a saucer-shaped object with a white opaque glass bubble on the top. It is four<br />

feet in diameter and is hovering in one spot about two feet off the ground in the open area<br />

in front of you. As you look closer at the sculpture you notice that it is spinning and has a<br />

wonderful satin appearance. The spinning action is what keeps the object in the air. It is secure<br />

and stable as it gently bobs up and down in one spot…suspended on a cushion of air. The<br />

sculpture is totally silent except for a slight whir of the air as it spins. You can hear it if you<br />

listen closely. It is a pleasant experience seeing the object. The sculpture I;ve made for you. You<br />

cannot help smiling because the experience is so enjoyable. I will soon count from 1 to 10. When<br />

I reach 7 you will be wide awake and you will feel comfortable and relaxed… with a warm glow<br />

of health and well-being. You will remember having seen the saucer-shaped object I have shown<br />

you. It will be a clear memory. The actual object however will not be present in front of you<br />

because I have taken it away. I will now start counting from 1 to 10. When I reach 7 you will be<br />

wide awake and feeling fine…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10<br />

An auditory description of the new letteric<br />

alphabet.<br />

( where learning to pronounce, without vowels, becomes the<br />

new sound for each new letter)<br />

or<br />

N dtry dscrptn f th nw lttrc lphbt<br />

(whr lrnng t prnnc, wtht vwls, bcms th nw snd fr ch nw lttr)<br />

By Jon Pestoni<br />

alpha / nhltn (hrd)<br />

beta / xhltn (hrd)<br />

gamma / hssng (whstlng btwn th tth lke snd f nke)<br />

delta/ rttlng n th thrt<br />

epsilon/ grwlng (lk dg bt t brk)<br />

eta/ grspng (hrs snd) md wth th wndpp by pffng p th blly<br />

theta/ sgh (md smltnsly by th wndppe, mth, nd, ns<br />

kappa/ snrng<br />

lamda/ grglng (wth th r vbrtng btw nth tng nd th plt)<br />

mu/ whmprng<br />

nu/ hccgh<br />

omicron/ cgh, clrng th thrt<br />

pi/ blch<br />

ro/ clckng th tng<br />

sigma/ frtng snd (wth th lps)<br />

tau/ crcklng ( s f mttng th nse f n t)<br />

upsilon/ spttng snd ( srt f p-ph-pty tgthr)<br />

phi/ kssng (nsly)<br />

psi/ whstlng ( smpl, nt mldc)


Distractions for Men<br />

By Michael Bouchet<br />

1 In The Pink 1 In The<br />

Stink<br />

100 Percent Natural<br />

Wonders<br />

110 Percent Natural<br />

12 Nasty Black Girls<br />

Masturbating<br />

13 Cum Hungry<br />

Cocksuckers<br />

18 And Asian<br />

18 Legal And Latin<br />

18 Yesterday<br />

6 Black Sticks 1 White Trick<br />

A Group Thing<br />

About Face<br />

About Face POV<br />

Absolute Ass<br />

Adult Movie<br />

All About Ass<br />

All Natural<br />

Almost Jailbait<br />

Almost Virgins<br />

Alone In The Dark<br />

Amateur Angels<br />

Amateur Cream Pies<br />

Amateur Hardcore<br />

Amateur Hood Humpin<br />

Amazing POV Sluts<br />

American Ass<br />

American Ccksucking<br />

Championship<br />

American Cream Pie<br />

American Nymphette<br />

American Pornstar<br />

Anal Addicts<br />

Anal Angels<br />

Anal Annihilation<br />

Anal Assault<br />

Anal Athletes<br />

Anal Cumsumption<br />

Anal Divas In Latex<br />

Anal Driller<br />

Anal Excursions<br />

Anal Expedition<br />

Anal Fever<br />

Anal Hazard<br />

Anal Intruder<br />

Anal Life<br />

Anal Nurses<br />

Anal POV<br />

Anal Rage<br />

Anal Romance<br />

Anal Teen Tryouts<br />

Anal Thrills<br />

Anal Violation<br />

Analgeddon<br />

Analogy<br />

Ancient Amateurs<br />

Appetite For Ass<br />

Destruction<br />

Apple Bottomz<br />

Army Of Ass<br />

Ashtons Auditions<br />

Asian Assault<br />

Asian Divas<br />

Asian Erotica File<br />

Asian Insemination<br />

Asian Lollipops<br />

Asian Lust<br />

Asian Mouth Club<br />

Asian POV<br />

Asian Prostitutes<br />

Asian Street Hookers<br />

Asian Thighs Creampies<br />

Ass 2 Mouth<br />

Ass 4 Cash<br />

Ass Brand New<br />

Ass Breeder<br />

Ass Busters<br />

Ass Cleavage<br />

Ass Cream<br />

Ass Deep<br />

Ass Driven<br />

Ass Eaters Unanimous<br />

Ass Feast<br />

Ass Fuck<br />

Ass Fucked<br />

Ass Fun<br />

Ass Holes<br />

Ass Intake<br />

Ass Pounders<br />

Ass Quest<br />

Ass Slaves<br />

Ass Stretchers<br />

Assassin<br />

Assault That Ass<br />

Assed Out<br />

Asses Galore<br />

Assfensive<br />

Assploitaitons<br />

Asswhole<br />

ATM City<br />

Babes In Pornland<br />

Babewatch<br />

Baby Doll<br />

Baby Fat<br />

Back Seat Bangers<br />

Backyard Boogie<br />

Bait<br />

Bakers Dozen<br />

Bang My White Tight Ass<br />

Bangin Beaver On The Bus<br />

Bangin In Da Hood<br />

Bangin It Out<br />

Bangin The Girl Next Door<br />

Bangin Whitey<br />

Banzai<br />

Barefoot And Pregnant<br />

Barely 18<br />

Beach Bunnies With Big<br />

Brown Eyes<br />

Beautiful Couples<br />

Beef Eaters<br />

Bell Bottoms<br />

Bellas Perversions<br />

Bend Over And Sah Ahh<br />

Bend Over And Say Ahh<br />

Beverly Hills 9021 Ho<br />

Beyond Reality<br />

Big Babies In Budapest<br />

Big Black Beast<br />

Big Black Beef<br />

Big Black Beef Stretches<br />

Little Pink Meat<br />

Big Black POV<br />

Big Black Wet Asses<br />

Big Bodacious Knockers<br />

Big Boob Heaven<br />

Big Boob Teachers<br />

Big Breasts Of The West<br />

Big Butt Brotha Lovers<br />

Big Butt Smash Down<br />

Big Cock Seductions<br />

Big Fucking Titties<br />

Big Shots<br />

Big Tit Anal Whores<br />

Big Tit Brotha Lovers<br />

Big Tit Paradise<br />

Big Titties Of Europe<br />

Big Titty MILFs<br />

Big Toys No Boys<br />

Big Wet Asses<br />

Big Wet Butts<br />

Big Wet Tits<br />

Biggz And The Beauties<br />

Billion Dollar Booties<br />

Bitches In Heat<br />

Black Bad Girls<br />

Black Bros Bangin White<br />

Hos<br />

Black Bubble Butt Hunt<br />

Black Cheerleader<br />

Gangbang<br />

Black Cheerleader Search<br />

Black Dick For The White<br />

Chick<br />

Black Dick In Me POV<br />

Black Dicks In White<br />

Chicks<br />

Black In The Crack<br />

Black Inside Me<br />

Black Juizz In New White<br />

Cooze<br />

Black On Black<br />

Black On Black Crime<br />

Black On White Crime<br />

Black Street Hookers<br />

Black Thai Affair<br />

Black Up That White Ass<br />

Black White Wet All Over<br />

Blackballed<br />

Blacks In Blondes<br />

Blind Sex Dates<br />

Blow Me<br />

Blow Me Sandwich<br />

Blowjob Adventures Of Dr<br />

Fellatio<br />

Blue Jean Blondes<br />

Bombshells<br />

Boob Exam Scam<br />

Boobsville<br />

Booty Climax<br />

Booty Duty<br />

Booty Full Babes<br />

Booty Hunter<br />

Border Hoppers<br />

Boss Bitches<br />

Bottomless<br />

Bound To Cum<br />

Boy Fucks Girl<br />

Brand New<br />

Breakin Em In<br />

British Teen Girls<br />

Bros And Blondes<br />

Bubble Butts Drive Brothas<br />

Nutz<br />

Buckets Of Cum<br />

Built For Sex<br />

Buried In Tits<br />

Butt Busters<br />

Butt Gallery<br />

Butt Junkies<br />

Butt Quest<br />

Butts 2 Nuts<br />

Buttwoman<br />

California Calendar Girls<br />

Camel Hoes<br />

Camel Toe Obsessions<br />

Cameltoe Perversions<br />

Candy Girls<br />

Candy Stripers<br />

Casting Couch Confessions<br />

Casting Couch Cuties<br />

Central Anal<br />

Chasing White Booty<br />

Cheating Housewifes<br />

Cheating Housewives<br />

Cherry Bomb<br />

Cherry Bustin<br />

Chicas<br />

Chick Flick<br />

Chicks And Salsa<br />

Chicks Gone Wild<br />

Chocolate Cream Pies<br />

Chocolate Vanilla Cum<br />

Eaters<br />

Christoph Clarks Euro<br />

Domination<br />

Chubby Chasers<br />

Chubby Chicks<br />

Chunky School Girls<br />

Cindys Way<br />

Clean My Crack<br />

Cluster Bang<br />

Clusterfuck<br />

Coming Of Age<br />

Confessions Of A<br />

Cooter Pie<br />

Coxxx And Soxxx<br />

Crack Addict<br />

Crazy Big Booty<br />

Cream Filled<br />

Cream Filled Asses<br />

Cream Filled Holes<br />

Cream Of The Crop<br />

Cream On My Camel Toe<br />

Cream Pie For The Straight<br />

Girl<br />

Cream Pie For The Straight<br />

Guy<br />

Cream Pie Housewife<br />

Cream Pie Initiations<br />

Cream Pie POV<br />

Creamed Cuties<br />

Creampie Cuties<br />

Crow In The Snow<br />

Crude Oil<br />

Cum Beggars<br />

Cum Catchers<br />

Cum Craving Teens<br />

Cum Drenched Tits<br />

Cum Drinkers<br />

Cum Drippers<br />

Cum Guzzlers<br />

Cum Hungry Leave Full<br />

Cum In My Gaping<br />

Butthole<br />

Cum On In<br />

Cum On My Hairy Pussy<br />

Cum Stoppers<br />

Cum Swallowing Whores<br />

Cum Swapping And<br />

Lollipops<br />

Cum Swapping Fuck Dolls<br />

Cum Swapping Sluts<br />

Cumback Pussy<br />

Cumplexxx<br />

Curry Cream Pie<br />

Daddys Girl Is A Bad Girl<br />

Daddys Little Princess<br />

Dark Meat<br />

Darker Side Of Sin<br />

Debbie Class Of<br />

Decadent Divas<br />

Deep Throat This<br />

Dementia<br />

Deviant Behavior<br />

Devil Girl<br />

Direct Deposit<br />

Dirrty<br />

Dirty Dans POV<br />

Dirty Girl Gangbang<br />

Dirty Little Secrets<br />

Dirty Newcummers<br />

Disturbed<br />

Dont Tell Mommy<br />

Double Anal Climax<br />

Double Cum Cocktails<br />

Double D Dolls<br />

Double Decker Sandwich<br />

Double Dip Er<br />

Double Filled Cream Teens<br />

Double Impact<br />

Double Parked<br />

Double Teamed<br />

Double Teamed And<br />

Creamed<br />

Double The Fun 2 On 1<br />

Down And Dirty<br />

Down Your Throat<br />

Dp Me Baby<br />

DP The Hole DP And<br />

Nuttin Butt DP<br />

DPs And Orgies<br />

Dreamgirls - Casting Couch<br />

Cuties<br />

Dreamgirls - Girlfun<br />

Dripping Fucking Wet<br />

Dripping Wet Sex<br />

Drive Thru<br />

Early Entries<br />

Eight Teen Cum Swallowing<br />

Tryouts<br />

Eight Teen Gang Bang<br />

Tryouts<br />

Eight Teen Tryouts<br />

Eighteen And<br />

Interracial<br />

Everybody Wants<br />

Some<br />

Exquisite <strong>Les</strong>bians<br />

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Your Ass Is Mine


By Tan Lin<br />

B 1 2007<br />

I read a story about people who, because they<br />

died of wounds inflicted any number of years<br />

earlier, are known as reclassified homicides.<br />

There were thirty-five such homicides in New<br />

York in the past year and they are a matter of<br />

public interest. Often they lead to upgraded<br />

criminal charges and new trials. The NYPD<br />

releases the information throughout the year,<br />

based on rulings made by New York City’s<br />

medical examiner and information that passes<br />

through New York City’s Office of Public<br />

Records, which is the conduit for all deaths that<br />

occur after 1949. The number of reclassified<br />

homicides was unusually high for 2006 and<br />

it lead to an uptick in the number of total<br />

homicides for the year, which was also greater<br />

than in 2005. No explanation for either of<br />

December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />

these increases has been found. During 2006,<br />

neither forensic methods nor the manner of<br />

reporting deaths changed within the office<br />

of the medical examiner, and Raymond<br />

Kelly, New York’s Police Commissioner, said,<br />

“They’re what we have to live with. It is a bit<br />

of a fluke.” Sirkime Stevenson died today<br />

(January 2006) though he was killed in 1991<br />

when bullets fired by a stranger in a passing<br />

car shattered his spine, eventually causing<br />

infections that resulted in the amputation of a<br />

leg (1997). Until that point, he had dreamed of<br />

walking again. The killer was never identified.<br />

B 4 1997<br />

I read a story of an older woman on the<br />

subway who offers her seat to a woman with<br />

a young child, both of whom get off the IRT<br />

No. 2 train at 72nd Street. A reporter in the car<br />

inquires after the older woman, learns that her<br />

name is Drane Shyti, an Albanian, fifty-seven<br />

years old, that she has been in America for two<br />

years and misses her own children, a son in<br />

England and a daughter in Greece. Ms. Shyti<br />

“works in a hotel laundry.” “Her husband is<br />

a porter.” Before coming to America, he had<br />

been a math teacher and she an elementary<br />

school teacher. On the same page, beneath<br />

the fold, an article documents a website that<br />

allows users to compare aerial shots of the<br />

same areas of New York taken at two points in<br />

time. The years, like most items in such public<br />

inventories, is arbitrary: 1996 and 2004. The<br />

site, oasisnyc.com is funded by government<br />

and private agencies and provides information<br />

on property ownership and land use. An aerial<br />

photo, one of three that are reprinted, shows<br />

a section of Coney Island with shadows cast<br />

OX to A to Z Journal, Like a Nocturne By Dave Miko<br />

by the Parachute Jump ride in 1996; in 2004,<br />

the shot of the same ground reveals different<br />

or conflicting information produced by the<br />

passage of time, which appears to be manually<br />

rendered: a green ball field that is used by the<br />

Brooklyn Cyclones.<br />

A 1 2005<br />

My head is bent over the obit of Frank Stanton,<br />

the understated, reserved CBS executive who<br />

was William S. Paley’s right hand man but never<br />

socialized with his boss, and who helped shape<br />

television as a medium “for the majority of<br />

Americans.” Stanton was so sure Paley would<br />

offer him the chairmanship of CBS that he<br />

refused President Johnson’s offer to become<br />

the next Secretary of Health, Education and<br />

Welfare. But in the end, Paley held onto his<br />

job, and Stanton was forced to retire without<br />

becoming chairman. He left CBS disillusioned,<br />

referring to the institution as “just another<br />

company with dirty carpets.” On his last day,<br />

he declined to attend a party that Paley had<br />

thrown for him and simply left the office as if<br />

it were another work day. He told Lillian Ross<br />

of the New Yorker: “I think I’ll make it home<br />

in time for the 7 o’clock news.” He left no<br />

survivors and asked that there be no memorial<br />

service and that no donations be made in his<br />

honor.<br />

A3 2008<br />

And then, as I read his obit, I think of a<br />

room that is ambient and incapable of being<br />

distressed by objects. Such a room of the most<br />

minor of anxieties (such as yours or mine)<br />

might be assembled by a computer in the same<br />

way that an airport might “use computers to<br />

schedule flights.” 1<br />

D2 1987<br />

Such a room might include a refrigerator<br />

produced in Korea by one company and<br />

marketed in China under a different brand to<br />

less or more stringent energy configurations<br />

that are consistent with terms set forth by the<br />

Kyoto Protocol.<br />

D12<br />

Such protocols, like the room, might include<br />

the sound of the rain, with which has picked<br />

up sulfur dioxides in the form of stack gasses,<br />

turning the leaves of a fern in southeastern<br />

Ohio yellow. And then, the rain will be heavy<br />

at times and will cause local flooding in low<br />

lying areas.<br />

C 3 1975<br />

As a rule of description, it may be necessary to<br />

“cause the parable to rain” or the crust of the<br />

earth to become a cigarette.<br />

C5<br />

And because it is early, such a room might<br />

also include the sound of the rain turning<br />

into something that looks like snow or a<br />

bottle of Bordeaux. Bordeaux is a novel or a<br />

newspaper.<br />

What is the minor anxiety of a novel? I believe<br />

it was something you were reading yesterday<br />

or the day before because the novel is a brand<br />

that is no longer made by hand.<br />

C9<br />

The newspaper is so plainly like all our other<br />

feelings. I remember plainly a lesson from<br />

1 Mark Wigley, “Network Fever” Grey<br />

Room 4, p 12-61


Backwards Honking<br />

By Kirsten Mosher<br />

I was talking with a friend about the frustration of being honked<br />

at, when the driver behind doesn’t understand or see the risks<br />

involved in taking a particular right hand turn on the red light at<br />

the off ramp exit from the Newburgh Bridge to 9-D. The fence<br />

that prevents bridge suicides also prevents drivers at that junction<br />

from seeing around the left corner. So I have to be pretty sure<br />

no one is going to speed up onto me as I take the right red. The<br />

driver behind can’t see it at all. That driver can either wait for<br />

the green light or wait for me to take the right on red when it’s<br />

safe to go. This is when I get the occasional honk. The driver<br />

behind thinks I’m dilly dallying, missing opportunities on this<br />

red and isn’t satisfied to let me wait for the green. Honk-Honk.<br />

As I said, I explained this whole situation to a friend<br />

and she said, “Well, that’s when I honk back.”<br />

“You mean backwards honking? How do you do that? Honks go<br />

forward, not backward. Then traffic in front of me is going to<br />

think I’m honking at them. Of course, the sound radiates in every<br />

direction so the sound of<br />

the honk will reach the car<br />

in back of me. So, how<br />

does the driver behind<br />

know the honk is for him?<br />

It’s like turning your back<br />

on someone and yelling at<br />

them. That’s unclear. You<br />

can’t bawl someone out<br />

facing the other way. You<br />

can’t backwards honk!”<br />

“Well, I do backwards<br />

honk,” she said. As she<br />

walked away from me she<br />

added a loud verbal “Honk”<br />

apparently in my direction.<br />

December, Twelve, Two Thousand and Eight<br />

New York Stories...............................by Aurélie Godard<br />

HOROSCOPES 2009<br />

By Virginie Yassef<br />

G.DeBord<br />

an incomprehensible stab at describing their<br />

shared journey towards an equally shared goal.<br />

Both are becoming hoarse. Meanwhile, someone<br />

turns up the music, just as J starts to look<br />

for a better place to sit (he has been perched<br />

on the armrest of the rocking chair that M<br />

is sitting on). M, having spent quite a bit of<br />

time trying to listen to A and B and maintain<br />

eye contact with both, has now removed his<br />

glasses and is rubbing his temples as if to dispel<br />

a headache or a growing sense of frustration.<br />

A stops talking and draws a C with his<br />

finger on the glass tabletop. B falls silent as<br />

well, watching A as he carefully draws the arc<br />

of the letter. A has now sat down and is staring<br />

intently at J. With an unexpected blush,<br />

and a visible onrush of embarrassed sweat, B<br />

calmly walks over to M, gently lays his head<br />

on his tricep, and leads him out of the room,<br />

onto the balcony. This scene looks like an A,<br />

a B, a J, and an M (all lower case) drawn onto<br />

of one another.A taxi sidles up to a building.<br />

The building is a four-story apartment building.<br />

There’s a small cement “yard” on the side<br />

of the building, separated from the street by a<br />

low wrought-iron fence. A Hassid man dressed<br />

in a black top hat, black skullcap, long black<br />

satin coat, black suit, and white shirt, paces in<br />

the enclosed area, at a regular pace, pausing<br />

at the end of each cycle to warm his hands<br />

in his sleeves, or take off his hat and warm<br />

them in his hat. He looks behind him, looks<br />

around. It seems he’s waiting for something. A<br />

school bus pulls up, a yellow school bus, with<br />

Hebrew characters written on the side of it.<br />

A young Hassid boy runs out, into his father’s<br />

arms, who stops him, removes his scarf, places<br />

it on the boy, warms his hands again in his hat,<br />

then takes his son’s hand, and walks quickly,<br />

briskly into the building. The bus doors have<br />

closed, the bus has taken off, it rounds a corner,<br />

drives under the overpass, down a wide<br />

street lined with warehouses and small brownstones.<br />

A gang of umbrella wielding thugs<br />

enter the organic grocery noisily laughing,<br />

opening and closing their umbrellas and falling<br />

down the aisles causing one young man to<br />

drop a 5lb bag of basmati rice. They carried on<br />

so because they were malcontents. They did so<br />

because they were drunkards or having some<br />

unruly celebration that was better kept private,<br />

away from the uninitiated and unsuspect<br />

C is for Column<br />

ing. Whatever the reason, their behavior put<br />

everyone in the vicinity on guard as they slid<br />

and scuffled over the now rice laden floor. 3<br />

aisles over, a handsome middle-aged woman<br />

returned her gaze away from the direction<br />

of the ruckus to the package of frozen spinach<br />

she had been inspecting prior to the outbreak.<br />

The circled K; keep refrigerated. Her<br />

eyes wander further over the logo of a bird<br />

and she begins to imagine herself floating over<br />

a patchwork landscape of tree lines, pastures<br />

and lakes. The wobbly lines of country road<br />

as they begin to widen and split, occasionally<br />

dotted by a rooftop – she must be on her way<br />

home on an airliner. The roads breaks to the<br />

right, to the left and continue on ahead as if<br />

winning a race. Speckled with more rooftops<br />

which accumulate into clusters, pastures become<br />

smaller yards. Grassy passes turn gray.<br />

Just then she feels a violent poke in her lower<br />

back. She spins around to come face to face<br />

to with a dazed and wavering man of 41 holding<br />

a ragged umbrella. She clinches the cold<br />

brick in her right hand and, as hard as she can,<br />

strikes the man on his left temple. She turns<br />

back to the refrigerated shelf and replace the<br />

dented package for a fresh undamaged one<br />

and proceeded to the checkout line. Our protagonist<br />

walks out of the supermarket through<br />

a scatter of rice grains, in which one could<br />

read a potentially infinite array of signs, numerals,<br />

or symbols. The sun outside has just<br />

been dimmed by a cloud, a grayish cloud which<br />

she seemingly interprets as the approach of a<br />

storm, she flips up the collar of her raincoat,<br />

and checks to see that her umbrella is still<br />

in her handbag. A young couple are holding<br />

hands and kissing at a bus stop. Perhaps one<br />

of them is leaving, or perhaps has just arrived.<br />

As she passes them, a bus stops, and when it’s<br />

left, so have the couple. They have scampered<br />

into an alleyway, their interaction growing<br />

more heated, but just then a door opens up<br />

in the alleyway and a thick set man drags an<br />

oversized double-walled bag of trash out towards<br />

the dumpster. He mumbles as they make<br />

their exit, laughing, and seeking refuge in the<br />

gangway of a building, leading to a courtyard,<br />

in which they are once again interrupted by<br />

the arrival of a moped and the departure of<br />

a mother and her two children, each of them<br />

carrying five large decorated cardboard letters.<br />

They slink deeper into the courtyard, finding<br />

refuge in a doorway leading to the basement,<br />

at which point their interaction, after a brief<br />

moment of awkward reprise, heats up once<br />

more. Just then a retired translator and amateur<br />

cryptographer on the fifth floor waters<br />

his plants, the run-off splashing down along<br />

the wall, part of it dripping down the shirt of<br />

the young woman in question who jumps with<br />

a shriek, just as a car enters and proceeds to<br />

park alongside the two of them. It is 4 o’clock<br />

in the afternoon. The sky is filled with clouds.<br />

A flock of sparrows flies low over the city,<br />

first in a “V,” then in a “W.” The weather is<br />

mild, and the spirits of the nation (according<br />

to a radio broadcast blaring from the<br />

amateur cryptographer’s apartment) are high.

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