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Hundreds of
smashed glasses and broken chairs littered the terrace. At first I could
see no signs of Leonora, although her face was everywhere, the portraits
with their slashed profiles strewn on the damp tiles. An eddying smile
floated towards me from the disturbed air, and wrapped itself around my
leg.
Leonora's body lay among the broken tables near the bandstand,
half-wrapped in a bleeding canvas. Her face was as bruised now as the
storm-cloud Manuel had tried to carve.
We found Van Eyck in the wreck of the marquee. He was suspended by
the neck from a tangle of electric wiring, his pale face wreathed in a
noose of light bulbs. The current flowed intermittently through the
wiring, lighting up the coloured globes.
I leaned against the overturned Rolls, holding Beatrice's
shoulders. 'There's no sign of Nolan - no pieces of his glider.'
'Poor man. Raymond, he was driving that whirlwind here. Somehow he
was controlling it.'
I walked across the damp terrace to where Leonora lay. I began to
cover her with the shreds of canvas, the torn faces of herself.
I took Beatrice Lafferty to live with me in Nolan's studio in the
desert near Coral D. We heard no more of Nolan and never flew the gliders
again. The clouds carry too many memories. Three months ago a man who saw
the derelict gliders outside the studio stopped near Coral D and walked
across to us. He told us he had seen a man flying a glider in the sky
high above Red Beach, carving the strato-cirrus into images of jewels and
children's faces. Once there was a dwarf's head.
On reflection, that sounds rather like Nolan, so perhaps he managed
to get away from the tornado. In the evenings Beatrice and I sit among
the sonic statues, listening to their voices as the fair-weather clouds
rise above Coral D, waiting for a man in a dark-winged glider, perhaps
painted like candy now, who will come in on the wind and carve for us
images of seahorses and unicorns, dwarfs and jewels and children's faces.
1967
positive connections between the hairstyle and their own pubic hair. A
series of optimum hairstyles were constructed. created a scenario of the
conceptual orgasm, The conceptual role of Reagan. Fragments of Reagan's
cinetized postures were used in the construction of model psychodramas in
which the Reagan-figure played the role of husband, doctor, insurance
salesman, marriage counsellor, etc. The failure of these roles to express
any meaning reveals the non-functional character of Reagan. Reagan's
success therefore indicates society's periodic need to re-conceptualize
its political leaders. Reagan thus appears as a series of posture
concepts, basic equations which re-formulate the roles of aggression and
anality. a unique ontology of violence and disaster.
Reagan's personality. The profound anality of the Presidential
contender may be expected to dominate the United States in the coming
years. By contrast the late J. F. Kennedy remained the prototype of the
oral object, usually conceived in prepubertal terms. In further studies
sadistic psychopaths were given the task of devising sex fantasies
involving Reagan. Results confirm the probability of Presidential figures
being perceived primarily in genital terms; the face of L. B. Johnson is
clearly genital in significant appearance - the nasal prepuce, scrotal
jaw, etc. Faces were seen as either circumcised (JFK, Khrushchev) or
uncircumcised (LBJ, Adenauer). In assembly kit tests Reagan's face was
uniformly perceived as a penile erection. Patients were encouraged to
devise the optimum sex-death of Ronald Reagan.
1968