Thirty Brief Tales from England and Spain

This secret life filled her with happiness.

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She never knew what she was going to do next. One time she dressed up like a man and went to one of the porno movie theatres on 42nd Street. Another time she went to a massage house run by women. The book insisted that she was a man. She became interested in the world of boxing. She spent hours on end watching fights on TV. One afternoon she went to the gym on Madison Avenue. She met a black boxer, a twenty-year-old featherweight who was 1.

Finally the book told her that she had to leave. She took all the money they had in the bank, rented a car and started driving. The book told her the way. Sometimes she would consult the I Ching to know whether she should consult the I Ching. There was a psychiatrist who answered the phone for a suicide prevention line, and who everyone called The Priest because he had been a preacher in an Evangelical church in the South Bronx.

He was a false psychiatrist and a false doctor; he used the IDs of his brother, who had died two years earlier in Cincinnati. He set up the service in a rundown apartment on 32nd Street. He taped every conversation and never agreed to meet anyone in person. He received calls at all hours of the day from desperate men and women who would tell him the story of their lives.

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But it was not really the story of their lives, in reality they would tell him the one event that, according to them, had provoked their falls and catastrophes. All the stories revolved around a pivotal point, as if they had lived only one experience in their lives. It was not madness, it was the edge, the border, they could pretend, they paid three dollars for a five-minute phone call. Madness can never be narrated. They would tell him that they were alone, miserable, that they had lost their wives, alcoholics, recovering alcoholics, impotent men, one woman who had not taken the opportunity to go to Miami when she was twenty years old and now was afraid to go out of her house, they had run out of drugs, they had taken drugs, she was naked, she heard voices giving her contradictory orders, they called him the exterminator, she said she was Friedrich Nietzsche's legitimate granddaughter, a neighbor was reading her thoughts and directly influencing her life, she had been in a psychiatric clinic with Rocky Graziano, they had cut off one of her arms, she had already died twice.

He listened to the tapes over and over again, the city's multiple story.

He wanted to capture New York's secret obsession. There was a convict who had just gotten out of jail. The only world he knew was in prison. The first time he was sent to jail he was sixteen years old. It would be impossible to relate the atmospheric pressure implied in being an inmate condemned to a long sentence in a North American prison.

After being locked up for so long the fantasies that one creates about the free world become indistinguishable from what one knows for certain about that world. He considered himself a prisoner educated by the State; in other words, a prisoner who had been taught by correctional institutions. A complete, systematic education: They taught new relationships with time, a different relationship with language and obedience.

A high-security jail in the United States is a very complex institution. They make the psychopaths and the informants live with the hopeless and the victims. They know that a weak man will become a slave and a slave a terrified automaton. They want to see what happens to the rebellious spirit under conditions of extreme pressure. In the emptiness of that futureless time the only thing one can do is think. Thoughts can be completely developed in silence, he thought before.

A silent thought can extend to infinity. Now he thinks that there are no thoughts without language.

He thinks that all thoughts can be utilized for the annihilation of one's own existence. He thought time and again that he had been dead for a long time already. Inside there is no connection to the world other than the hissing of the TV turned on at all hours for the entire prison. Write a product review. Get to Know Us. Not Enabled Word Wise: Enabled Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies thinking of returning an item?

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