POINi OF YIEW:WHO'S MINDN9 fHE SIORE?

255
his bad marriage, although he will wander from ihat
straight and narrow road he saw earlier, and he will deny
his soul, or conscience, wall it ofr by gtving it a separate
identity. And it will come back again and again to mock
bim.

MARCUSE,
FORA WHILETHERE,HERBERT
I THOUGH| YOU WEREMAYBERIGHr
ABOUTALIENAT'ONAND EROS
by RobinScoll Wilson
HARLEv IAcoBs became a vteran bf Chicago when he
hitchhiked to that toddlin'town in late July, 1958, out
alienation and because
of a Drofound sense of Dersonal
-his
draft board to summon him;
he wai bored waiting for
because Senator MaCarthy had stimulated his activist's
itcb, his desire to hook into a cau:ie; because he was
cririous-with
a small town resident's naivete-about
Hippiec and Yippies; and because-whatever the fortunes
of-McCarthy, tbe Democratic Convention, the Youth In'
ternational Firty, and the National Mobilization Committee--it looked like there might be a good supply of
poontang in the balmy summir evenings in Grant Park.
- Now -this is not to ibply that most of those brave souls
at Chicago were, like Hailey, about equally interested i'!
politics and poontang. Such was clearly not the case. And
i.rnlike most bhicago-veterans, because'of his dual motiva'
tion, Harley found his exlrrience in the Windy Cjty painfully dichoiomous: it seerned lhat whenever he began to
estdblish himself with a young lady-in a bush, under a
park bench. back of the statueof General JonatbanLogan
----+omeonashouted: "Here comes 166 frrzz!" or "Let's gol
kt's got" and Harley's consummation remained only ,to
be ddired, however'devoutly, Likewise, no sooner did
Ilarley begin to pelt cops with baggies full of excremeot'
join in a Japanese-style snake dance, or marcb_ up
Michigan Avenue, than his attention was captured by a
flash of thich or the qleam of black-lined eyes, and he
found hims;lf out of i-he action, oft hunting for a bush'
a park bench. or the back of a statue.
itrustrsted 6y this altemation of events, torn by oppos.
ing motivations, Harley's tret alienation increased' Ollce'
in-an elevgted language gleaned from The Pocket Guide to

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READER
Freud, he
his dilemma to those he milled with
q_ fron! o! -appealeg
rhe Hilton. .alow,,' he usfeO,
prrcously lrom tear gas, ..how does a person
"veJitor"rcomE
"umi"I
trrs personat
witbout at the same time com.esEangements
promrsrng hls commitmetrts to principles of social
signif_
cance?"
"What you, talkin' about, man?" asked a bearded
young man who might have sat for a cheap
two-cJoi
litho of Christ.
. ."I mean, -aslogn as I begin to establisha satisfactorv
rnrc.rpersonal
r-elationshr-p,
eventscompel me to. . .,,
"fte means," translated another beird, . he
ain,t gettin,
any."
.. 'Well,-.-hell," said the 6rst youth, wiping his eyes,
"who is?"
"But ' protested Harley, .,the requirements of the wbole
man, of total reconciliation. ." man. Wlen you protestin, protest. When you
-;o;;;
- _jjl-ook,
ballin',
.ball. _You.m.ix-'em'up and jour head,s
get all fucked
uD.,'
Harley sbook-hls bead. No one seemedto understand
_,
roe rmporhnce of a simultaneous,broad_spectrum
cure
for alienatioo. But he persevered.ite *as ;b";;
ror a better answer wben he suffered what manv in'Chi"-;;
cago_suffered during that turbulent *""f:, iioril"iin
whacked him in tle-groin with a very targe nie'ht-itici;Arrer the _whack,Harley rapidly lost intereit in both
poonrangand tie politics of dissent.He retumed to
Readrng., Pennsylvania,feeling $eatly depersonalized.Doliticatry m,potent, totally alienated, and sore. And.'after a
weet-ot. recovery from his wounds_spiritual and cor4or91l --g the best tradition of American pragmatism.he
ceclded the answer to bis and the nation's-problemsmust
Iie in education, that .panaceaot progressiiisri.-ilffi.

be thought,hecouldfid a curefoi hfi o;; otufr;ttili;

re|algg to the vast overworld of learning. perhaps h!

could begin, his reform of this world ne na"On-evei--maO1l
Irs.own odyssey out of alienation, by going to college.
All
ir would placate tLe aritt 6oarO--toJl
while. -ytuuy,
. But it did not take Harley long to discover that col_
teges,
are depersonalizinginstitutions, tbat tbev are
-too, fine-gnnding mills
e-xceed.rngly
dedicated to statistical
oeDntrons-of _tbe good life which are only accidentallv
ano occasionaltycon-grueDtwith the needs of individu;l
[rmarcs. lDus, as a lacelessnumber in numbered courses

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POINIOF YIEW:WHO'SMINDTNG
taught by professon whose numbers, not names'.ap-p-eared
card that served as his i:lass schedule,Ilarley
oo ine fbtvf-fi;isemester at Bangpville -state collegB'
bl"
;ilIiancsville. Pa.. one of those instant co[eges lnqt .Daq
in"the sixties in the rich humus of federal
;;;;G
; colege of raw' cheap builditrgs' c.lq:9oml
il;;&
stirdents named Al br Karen, an indifierent
"-",.iiC "'itnp-.ta faculty, and a computerized records sys'
iil'ti"tv

ffdwiie rivaledoilv be.the^FirstAir

l;';;ity'uc
andcomplexity'Suchwere
in expense
6etense'Co'm-dand

educationalPriorities in 1968'
*;il;-*
said Harley one night, speak'
d;;nalizing,"
ils of his ihicago experienceduring a rare dorlnlory
! not
bu-il session."I mean, like you were iust a thrng aneven
you
aren't
Here
worse'
even
ii's
And
here
;;;4.
be a
guess
I'd
rather
I
a number.
;'dir;;;y-il;:-Jusi
number-"
a
than
thinc
*"fia".4;
a sociol'
*ia a world'wearyupperclassman'
- resurt
i.nevrtable
is
the
Al.
"It
osv maioi named Group
society."
oF'the
iost-industrial
--"V"t.;
said Red AI, a neo-Marxistsho.enjoyed great
campusradicalsfor havingvlsltedTavana'
repute;mong
'citi"
hd did not let it be krown that the lisit
tt- ulacring of an Eastem Air.lines
ldJ"fd
;'"d;t "itii"tin
wtti s p-ar'
bad
iet on which he
-nl""r'bound for a weekthe
-I{ffi been
inevitable
is
"It
;d""i*t#
in the
"ttut"'
fascist
the
by
Pigs
oppression
i"1it Lr--cotooidist
Pentason."
^ a-fr5itirU,,' said Dirty Al, the dormitorY'9r-esident
jewels'Jacobs'
a"ur^Ji,';ffi,io tnui"op t'*t"a you in the I mean' tbat
way.'.
N9
i.i *"t"o't- bit depersonalized'.
a act of intimacv'"
giii. t" "
iii
--ifi.f"v,
sort' ha'l
was an honestand open-minded
who""*ideied
gave
the probeand
it that way before,
moment'
a
for
silent
"oi-io"iia"."a
tie
ihought,
sroup
;;;ii;;"t;-;;
as a chicagp
lie *as-m"clt respected
il;';;";til:
#"iil;

are

Dljv Ati:.L^Yg

"p"trt"psvou
lielrt'.
abit. witnionir: gravity'"At leastr wasnot rgnorec
"iiJi
way we all are here"'
the
*;riilk
g"tr"". Right!" said Pretty Al' the resident
younger man'
fag, e-agerto ingxatiatehimself with tbe
a IneT'
establisb
;iio,o"i"t painfully, you managedto
in the
while
potceman
bif
r."iJ' ."i"fi.t-tlip' *ith th"
of
situation
a
with
;#*#;i;i"uiof
"o*"ii6o
relationsbips
meaningful
these
is
Itli"i"r1ig.ri""""".

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tat countt You must be able to relate peNonally withah-someonet"
Harley nodded. He was flattered by the attention. crateful for tbe advice from older and wiser heads. .;Mavbe
it is__likethis plofessor I got for 2722 says. . ."
"Which one?"
. "403 or maybe 405. I forget._Anyway, he says you got
to over-comealienation by relating to everythGg y:ou
can. . ."
"Indeed! Indeed!" said Group Al. ."fhe l-earvan doctrine of dropping out bas been tboroughly discreditedbv
social psychologists.You must seek to penetrarc tbe institutional infrastructure of society, accommodateto the
personal-societal interfacel"

'uh?"

"But at the same time you dare not compromise with

the forces of imperalist reaction," said Red AI.

'uh?"

"While rememberingthe primal value of interpersonal

reffi;;ah-relztionships,"
said Preuy Al.

"And it don'thult to turn on nowandthen,"saidDirty

At.
Harley rose to stride among the chromium and vinvl
chafus and stained coffee cups and intertwined studen'B
il-tbe sbabby cinder-block lounge. It was good of the
older men in the dormitory to take an interesl in him. to
belp him in his search.He would take their advice. oi as
much of it as he could, "All right," he said, chin up. arms
outflung like a young I-enin at the Finland Statio;. ..you
are all right. I will find a girl wbo is active in some so.
cially significant endeavor directed against the establishment, and perhaps I can relate. to her and the endeavor
simultaneouslyand thus ceaseto be alienated,"
All but Pretty Al nodded their approval.
The,socially significant endeavor directed against tho
establishmeDt-a violent demonstration in supDort of a
separatedepartment of studies in bracero fo&iore-was
very mucb a success.So was the girl, at least at first. But
Harley quickly discovered it was Chicago all over
Lgain,__Ngsooner did tbe girl begin to simmer nicely
than Harley found their nights consumed with crou;,
planning, mixing Fels Napthi soap flakes with cas:olind.
and debatingthe details of Che Guivara's instruciions foi
making a grenade launcher out of a.410 shotgun and a

fHE SIORE? 25'

POINIOF ftEW: WltO'SM'ND|NO

ffim**trj*#*ii#

;*$:}igfi""$fipn
ffi1ffi'$"E$$ff

mruruwfflmm
'."s';*iiE:'rT**'l{""ilirl,r:lJ"',i,,f
'','Jl*#;-"1;
has established.th"*1:'".^1;";#;'p"ry*ooa room above
ot:"l,fi, :'"il 6olr'ioi
srop'"thisresis'
Tf;fi
#i.:ilS
herMain
<lespite
aBrynMawrreiect
fli3.*t,
1Gu;lt"-Y^
u""'"""Lti'
o,itt a fineviable
ryfi"u".I.n,,,",

*;:fl;li

*#r"?*i'.*,i":rTi,,'.t'""'$*itl
this other shit?" He waves

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FTCflONREADE|

and
crerks,
*e
rg'nlt:xd.
ffir#111h#""r1?*lJot
rDey shumepast a table of.cards and

take one each

of white, green,yellow, and blue, as a sign'6ire!ts]*i.i
.you
mean," continuesHartey,
fe.i lust rif"-"oiiiil'n#
you- Just at iour
.card.Nobody looks at -than
id;"-6;;
be^a.lhingor a lumber
a,card,'for ct"*d".
issaie-.i '-*-'
9g[y sbrugs.Her mind is largetyetsewnerJ-*-'
"Ij.is _astrongly dichotomorls;ituatio;;-'
"Di-x/zcromous?"
"I1s -1word I learnedin 2345.Meansall split in two.,,
'oh-"
"I T9"q no tnatter what I do, I can't seemto relate to
ey.eryt.ning
at once. one siae of 'tningsis;tt dJil:-I\t
alienation

there,beybabe?But Oe-.tn1i,iaJ-iiiftiX

frr:l"i'r;ol$.lP'

i can'trelatsto all this

"-iffitiliuiJ

, Sally sighs &nd shifts her swollen anktes,which have

to bothg

hera goodaealor lati. yJadl;fr";;

I*'1 some!ryjgnation-c'ouiA-u.i,i
..Butmaybeyo"
w.rnt
t
,jS?"H.f alienation
ounelves.
"oa ;-tiii"T.;
a"a n"yrJ
.-,11fl"{ is too.busy-ponieringthe paradoxof private

Igr:c-rryagd public alienationto lisren-.He bol.dsir-'ai

a!.arm's-le^ngth
andlooks
tiuor"Goi'"ut
LByJTd
rng..rixturetlrough its holes.He draws
"ia. the c*J t-rt
unjil,it touches
htinoseandsights.ooiivl J*"i]tLo'ili
a nole, swmgmg hls head around until S,ally,sro-unC
agq long dark bair are framedin a n-v'.d;;lS;1il tice

$xf"i'h::iJ"l*n:H'ff
"'+:"t::r"i1li:#;

way," he says. ..Until you stu

your tongue' Like
a gLc&re on a watt, oory u;gnl.u".S
.lney pass a table where a bored professor takes the
yellow_
and greencards ana reptacest[im-;lA ffi;;;
Hp
.r.ed" dog not took up at ffiley or SaUy.;.ftd;;;
line of studentsin whi;h they aie lintaa in ilft;;i
tock step.Harley recognizesti- * ize, tl"-Irro'-i" -nlj
lle past semester
f.or l47l"Life. tbrolgh an IBM card holg," s$rs Harley, sighting
gCaln,this time at his own reflection in a gtasgaodr. ..fi
is simpler. Ev.erytbjr:gbas squareedge$"- --Sally says,"Harley, I think 16 g6ing to get sick.
. Hgl"y removestlie card from tis tice.-.Brit irJuru"
I!vo, r rhought you were only supposedto get sick in the
mornings."

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POINiOFllEW: I|HO'S MINDING
going to barf"'
"I lhink I better go bome. I think I'm
She has this worried look tbat Harley has come to. associate with pregnancy.Harley peers at her tb,rougn.tne
IBM card, tiltitrc his bead to bring her slightly swolre-n
abdomeninto view. "Okay"'he says."Gimme your caros
and I'll get you registered."
l"ltu
I""ut. ani Hatley shufres on. The line is not
ai.i.ithed by her departue, would not be
""i.Jtitiri increasedby her return. It bas a vrPerrneex'
ierceititti
istenci of its own, many times greaterthan the sum or
parts.
its
--f*winiog Harleylooks at tbrough IBM.card.takes
-his. and
a simplicity
lurrty-ot
on a niw clirity and freshness,
holes' Alter
different
with
experiments
He
InJana cotor.
-aliia*
thai his fevorite it -tg4!y two .holes
i-tit_.n"
nunched very close together whose divldng srrp or
6*at-"-a a-hiostdisappeirscloseto bis eye'-Heno longer
looks wbere he is going, but peersat protessors'wals'
lishts, firc extinguishers,and the sinuousllne rn rront or
him-which can be made-flat and linear-to
"ia-i.ti"a
from comer to corner of the squareof
i*luotiiy
c"*"
*his vision.
Th;li"; conveyshin past the registrationstations'He
holds bis and Sally'scardsout in his left hand' and-ners
dimlv awaretbat fiom rime to tfunecardsare removedano
with others.
reDl;ced
'-fi;;
;i;"1;;s-time, te srows awarethat someoneis
voiie releats: "Your blue-fee card'
;fi]A
"did;;;i"c
ii"'^1.-v-3"i uiii"-fle card"' ile te-otes the card from his
'eve.It is blue'He doesnot wishto sunenderlt;lt coPqlo:
his favorite pair of holes.A,large grey lady-m--1ltles:
a
soectaclesis-looking up at him from ber seat Dehmo
bas
anvbodv
time
fiIst
tbe
is
It
6fu"
ffit-f;ii;
"i.oi.
Sallyleft. "Your blue tee card'p-lease'
lookedat him since
Harlev
*;, tt"i 6n"." wordlesslv,.co-nfused'
i;;;;"ft.
see-r
"Uh-you
pleadingly'
smiles
He
rhakesbis head.
can'L . ."
in,th
Tc";;
on, young manl" Tbere is -exasperation
l^tc" ;"v dai's v6ice. Reflectedlight bobs up.at nrm
fro-mhleripecticles."You can'tcompleieyor'ureg$trarlon
untit your blue fee card is stampedand sent to tne
Bursar!"
-il-".f"u makes a strangledsound deep in
throat'
-his
clutches'theblue card tightly, and turns out.ot l.beune rc
flee down the corridor.He doesnot yet qulte qloqr:rp:
why he mustflee'He knowsonly that tlere rs Ine rnK'rng

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FtCrtONREADER
of.a broad-spectrumcurc for his alienation,and whatver
it is. it iqvolvesthe IBM card.
Out in the cold midafternoon doom of tho camDus.
Harle_ybriefly halte his flighL He debatesrenrrning to th6
Srey lady and surrenderinghir car4 behavingrationally.
Bgt now the idea of giving up the card is unrt'lntable, orr
thintable to hi4 only in- tn-e way that such theoretical
qlgpoqitionr as love'and death ind good and bad aro
thinlablo. Hc is very confused,The card, suddenlyso dear
to him, is the obvioussymbol of the depersonali'ationbo
las sougbtto overcome,and yet-and fet-the view, tho
tuzzy, squaqeview, the rectilinear organizationof everytbing.lT.n tbrough the,card, is oddly comforting, suggests
possrDruues
tor new relations. . .
solacoto his confusion,he pers through the double
-boles
-.Asof the card st the ugly -campus, ai the
wintertorn hees,at thJ shrubberybright with candywrappersand
brcwning copies of the BS Daily Bulletin" tt the watEr
tower high up on McNamane Hill whose elevation roQuireshim to turtr the card to the horizontal so that the
long way of the holer will be vertical
How clean and bright and Iogical everything lookrt
How simple and psiti-ve nd anierstattdabie! Atrd peeriry thus, Harley permi8 his mind to dlashback
tbrough tho tangled, ste3rnin& imFlausible iungles of
memory, and then upward in time again to that point in
the registration line when he has been captured by simplicity. And he seizeson a splendid ne* notion: that
there is no real distinction betweenthe conglomerateof
illusions, passions,lusts, hopes, tunescences,headachas,
infidelities, and gastric upsetsthat are Harley lacobs and
the clean, sharpedged, slope-cornered, geometrically
holed, purely colored perfection of the IBM cards that
are also Harley Jacobs.Only, t\ints Harley, the cardsHarley-despite the disclaimeBthey bear--+an far better
withstand being bent, spindled, folded, shuffied, andyes-4uplicated than can the flesh-Harley. Perhaps,he
thinks, perhaps he has found----eurekal-the personal.
societal interface, Perhaps,having found it, he can now
accommodatehimself to it. Perhapsit is the end of alienation It is worth somethought.
The campus full of ugly new buildings and the plywood room over the wafre shop are the loci of Harley's
life, the pressurepoints at which the tourniquet of his
alieDatioDis applied. Ultimately, all his troubles come

POINIOF YlBt: WHO'SMINDNATHESTORE?26t

home to roost in the plywood room' An'l there -to-o-is
tne iairnaty to be taken to the Was-h.'
S"Uv
;*iani
ftom pirents and notices ftop-his
6-fi;;;;;i"T"tt"* -o
ftom'his landlady and r.emin-d:rs
noie-s
;d
i";A-t;td
from GMAC and duns from the doctor and tlrat orner
bearing the dismal record of his first semestr
iSM
""tA
lrades.
-ivhiie sally is busy in the batbroom throwing--up.supper:
Harlev ponders the contrast between cards-Hafley anq
non-ff"il"v. He likes Sally, be likes the plywood room,
he even likes the idea or tDe
he likes e6ing to collegp,
'working
on with such assiduity'
Iiofi.it "fr"tl"v Sallv i
grades
beir:g b!ok9 +d 8ptand
are
like
Wiat he doesnt
tinc drafted and leaving the comfortable' ggly tittre cam'
pG antt the snug, warm, synrp-smellingplywood room'
Like, ever.
a"i'"p"tt from the draft, he doesnDt want somedsyto
caatuate'andbecomean Accountant,Advedising.lr'Ian,
iirlines Representative,Chemist, Comptroller (wlttr or
without the^voiced "p"), Designer, Engl-n9er,Insuranco

"":,qi""'"#'Jr,wil:5'v#"'T'*,ri'fr'
$"ry.'h#f,
f6itv nours a week doing one thing in one place and-bu;
bonls tbrough the Payroll SavingsPlan-and..st.ung
'? :T,
line to screw the comPtometeroperator (no slenl golc
at Christmasparties and grow old and retfie wlt[ a
tn"t sa:ys"Forty-atYears Service Award"'
*"i"t
"
his packing-cratedesk Dionne
i.A .o Hailey sits
and some man out or the
her
Warwick bitching about
iuaio. tte sound-of Sally busy at her-pregnancy.inthe
bathroom, and decidesthe nature ot lie current crvEron
Jf tutot and responsibilitybetweenIBM card-Harley
in his best inter$ts, that if
ii oot reatiy
i-rC [*i-tt-t"y
-that
part
Harley.so vulon
tale
*iU iust
tl"
-of
"** to. so alienatedfrom, parents,bant$ crcolt com'
nerable
panies,landladies,
draft boards,and college-8'h.inlstratoF,
ihe other part will be happy to handle,,au lne -r9will be quirc content,andfully relatedto
maining busliness,
and the sweetplywood room aDove
campus
uglt
little
the
the wafre shoP.
At midnight, Harley is outside the sdmiristration
hifAine Di"ftni the ldk with a papet clip and tbe flat'
tened tub; of tBiC baU-pointpen. It is an-art he learned
from tbe older brother of one of his colleaguesln soy
S.ow ftoop 502, which met sporadicallyin the basement

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FIC\\ON READER
Lutheran Church of.Reading, pa.,
:l *,,Ii."
for sessions

grab-aii
o"ii"ei-".r"/J
i,i"il5tl X:il:"1?::fl'*and

Inside, Harley cirecks to make sure

._
tors_about and goes to work, on th" there are no iani_
R"d;;u;;
ni;.];;

POINi OF llEWr \4HO'SMINUN9 tHE SIORf? 265

As each card nestlesin its appropriale file, Harley feels
a progressivelightening of his spirits, a burgeoning sense
of communion with the once-hostile world. He has rewritten, tailored, shaped the vulnerable, external, IBM
card-Harley into something fine and brave and solvent,
something immune to the tbrusts of niSht sticks: and he
has filed its manifold presences into the manifold file
drawers in which it belongs as surely as cell belongs to
flesh, neuron to thougbt, passion to spirit. For the next
semestetat least,the Harley-cardswill operatein intimate
electro-mechanicalharmony with one another, with the
draft board. with tbe bank, and with the college adminis'
tration. And the flesh-Harley will be free to enioy the
ugly little campus and the sweet plyrood room'

j
.;ff
tlfiW'li.:'i,1'*"J"1'J"f.:t:'_,ru:*:,:l':f

.""rd-i"rtor Master Machine iloom Control

fle. v"irb*
Grade

Record,
bluecardfu iJ"r,

.9:Tyt",,i":
Ior
Student Deferment file. Du

,"a-"ili

"rO
pucecard-rors,,;;;;E;;l;yJ"f
t"fl
'r11
lff
J"",;j,f
i,:?f
index,and

brown
I'ersgnal.Hisjory
ncatlon("amx picturein uDor caid t ; Sr"o."ilir"i,r]

ft lgl:-lil$:iji""'j"1"",l"j
ll!-:,."pr:r.i"ti*,""t"ir;fi

study and skutks across campus

::l.ll"":,bjr
to- h;;;;
walchtut tor campus rent_a_cops.
tb",,n"xt
__ l-1" night he retums and beginshis work in ear_
regisrers_
himself tol^, b"J"l, ;;";;;";:;;;
,o_":t.
toad; stamps,his fee card pArrJ anc
slgnsrt with an il-

ilr

And freely enioy he does, at first. 'Initially, he is fully

satisfiedwith the results of the nonaggressionpact he has
so slvlv neqotiatedwith the harsher realities of life, the
pub[i Sourdesof his alienation.He attendsbis classes,and
becausebe in now unconcerned about grades, he learns
a creat deal.He payshis back rent and resumeshis monthly
re-mittancesto tire'finance company. The draft board restores his 2-S classifcation, and he finds bimself honorably mentioned on the Dean's list, which brings an
illiterate but enthusiasticletter from home enclosinga mod'
est check. For the first time, Harley ffnds the whole
man integrated harmoniously with all aspectsof its existence; io jaring alienation from anything: Peace, comfort, pleaslre eieryrvhere; every hole in the siren flute of
desire is stopped.
He tries to- explain his satisfaction'bis accomplishment,
to Sallv. He waf,ts ber to know of his remarkable achievement, but she is totally intent on her own thing, and only
nods sweetly,a little iacantly, and says,'"That's real nice,
babv." Wben she thinks of Harley at all, it is of a future
Hariev. a father-Harlev, She is not much interested in
IBM iird-Harley and frnds flesh-Harley comfortably less
imDortunate in bed, whicb she mistakenly ascribesto her
altired figure and wbich she confidently foreseeswill end;
she has io doubt tbat an ardent Harley and a flat belly
will retum with the simultaneity and necessity of apple
blossomsand bees.
of a preoccupiedSally triggersThe disinterestedness
does not originate-an odd new dissatisfaction in llarley.
Tbe necessarily sectet nature of his treaty with society_has
rendered him an unperson as surely as any sscret East

j:;
ifl
"i_+lr:"J;.1.,T;::,ii"?1111i:?i?;T:::,"
.Board
No.47,Reading,
ea.,"wrricri-e"frui""
ir,l.i
and
.mak-esa Xerox copy of it- to- enciose i" i-l"li.i .'r]
tensiblyJrom_theDean-of Instruction
addresseJ
;';.i";;

::P.31i._,::

Jacobs, Hailey, were rn eror: grants "iiii#

himself

flffiii;'?:,1"",?H['",:?-"iTBH"1"_'.i"'c;;;;iil;;

':Hlr
*:::.'r:'il..r'il?;Ji
planment
'ihe:,'Y#Ji::;l';ilf
as
does,o *r,"i l!p""#it
.145,"woDdering
-power-or-atrorney

fites a
llll
"ul P";.a.nd
bothJcholarship
and payrolt

checks be ."it

direcrins rhar

*".'n,
_tll,l*:
i:""_r*i:l?.1T"
It T*t,i;:
bar-point
perar jvei;iln;:'L y.t,l"l::,1:iil',fl"",:1
""i"rn"il""ii,j

, On rhe third night, hi is bur

sertlthecardsin-the.propeint".. tt"t
or rhenewcard_Harley
"pp.ori.i",i'".""1i.
be properlyairriii,"iJd
Eursar,
Dean of 'Insirucii.", o"r" "rnoni t-rr"
oj-R-egistrar,
"i'S.a?"i.]
L""J
lib:lll Arts. rhe Houstneoffice,l;^,ilO"#::;
oI Student Aids. And of cours

8;;Lf ::::1"1r".t":ll
ll:-yrj" v*r.iofu""r,in"-i;"*
thenewHartey,

lljfylns.snirtt
serred
rn the long

musiu"-."1"r,,'ily
lrr_

skinny file cr
cricking,
rigr,t-uri;r.i;!."'^"Jr;::.jffji"jill,lr'::?";'f
ll:
Dasementof Hubris Hall_

il

266 IHOSEWHO CAN:A SCIENCE

FTC ON READER
gqrge.; be- dare not participate
P,H9p"q.
ruca-I.activities les.tbe draw o;. hims;U in campus poi"*J!;.ti";;
i;
c_r*T.qop accomplisbments,such as
tbey *". ir"-ii"i"l
cended.by.
cards in the ftes. AnA of Lir.!
il ;fi;;
Featy itself-rhe
must remain secre
!t, at least from the college
admmistrationdiscontent, Harley visits bis old
,^li,:l::t
g9n-nttoly
-!"l.qowing
to
flirt with the revelation of ,his s;hem;.-;;
display his cakn mastery of his own f"te
in fron;;-f ;;;;:
one.

your.advice,Groupn1,, he saysin_-:l-IT_q "ftotook

. .,And
grauatmgty
the sociotogy
major.
it wo.Iili frt

great."
"Advice? What advice?'
"I9y.tnoy.
About accommodating to
personalsocie_talinterface, or wbatever. It wor6.,, the
"ttow about that.', savs Group
AI, fngering bis new
beard. "Tell me about it.;'
"Well, I can't say too mucb, but what I did was.
. .,,
-io
'T advisedyou' to accommoaui"
iil"'iiti,r'.rsocietal i.oterface.huh?"
Yes, and what I did was. . .,,
:;_.
-'r natt.s very rnterestingand
I,m glad it worked for vott.
_
The thing is, there,s a t6t of n
evidenceabout &e va'
lidity of personal integration. .ew
ji. .nft let. me tell you! you seewhat I did was.
. .,
. -'"Tte thing is, sociometristshaue determtiJ t, i"
*,_
'J"f,;
isfdcrion rhat tbe real inrelect""t i; A;-;;;
has.been forced into internat emigiatio;
o;1, ,taii;ii

rbinkersandcutruralphilistine, nooTa"iuli il:J.

"un- Oomiout'ion.
uponpsychica-ndmaterial
i.ro"*
::.t.I.P."g
you take your problem.

."
."But-I doDt have any problem now l,ve got it
whipped. . ."
", . .You'll find the solution, as,I have, in group
ther3py..Thre's a bunch of us meet in the baserient.oi-l-he
Methodist Church, and you'll be ,".f.orn" it-V*'*iot'tJ
come along tonigbt."
I guess not tonighl,, Harley is
. "Well-ah-tbanks.
deeply disappoinredin Cr6uo Al.
. "Okay,- Jacobs. But anytime you want to. , ,,, He
leaves,a beatific smile flashing here uoA ttlreiiouoa
itJ
lounge.
..I
* To. !h.. neo-Marxist, Harley says, took your advice.
Red.ll. I tbink rve found a wiy tri ixptoit ttl 6ipLiiJrr.;i'
"Did I advise you to do thit?"

OF ftEW: |4HO'S MINDINGIHE SIORE? ?61

POTNT
out a way' You see, what I did
"Yes. and I figured
me "tascist-imperatisi establisbment like you
",ur'i"'uri-ri

;;iqd"{:";'"1Tr:3,1:rl"elil'"b;.*'.reethe..rieht
this stuff bere. You know wbal lt rsr"
track.
-iNo. Like
But let me tell You about'
"' ServiceEnhanco
piep sbeetfor the.Foreign
"ii-i.l
it
tomorrow"'
take
going
to
Im
s;.d"ti"i.
-;fri"r
whai I iant to tell you is' ' .''
stt
-to"gn
.*u-, but professor321 thinks I stand I
o
'itt
of my knowledgeof the Cuban situ'
i""tuse
gooJ
"uuo""
ation."
'"'i6.". er, good. r hope you do..okay otr it' But there's

*:#m:Lt".ff."fr1o*iL'ti"o putin a gootr

woril

ot
couprefor vou in WashitrgtonYou'll be a seniorrn a
the
Foreigtr
for
of
aim
to
ii'"i, ira vijt t"tgT,twant -ind
Ci""t buich of peoplethere"' Red Al returns to
ir."iit
his
*el"iiDrep sheel
aiJipp"inted, Harley says,"One last thing Red
Al still around?"
PrettY
I-s
Al.
--R.ed
lools up from his papers' '"lVhy, -no'-l{.arleY'
At -;itff
pissed the eiam tast month' He's al'
Td-i";ky
in Washington."
readv
'"h.i in"
io his voice'
pJ-mu'n, lturtev savs,resignqqig.g
Al?"
you
Dirty
'c-inme a^nickel 6ag, wiiil
tbeir re'
As the spring semesterand.Sally ripen toward
hl
exercises,.iTariel.
ro"&*
$nks
l-tll
He finds it almost imoossibleto commumli-i"tn"tgl"-io-io"ement
fellow students,who aie intere'ste4.after all
repression'-1obs-'pd sirls' .nory
"it"-*itn"i*
il;e;-r,;d.i"i"trative
Harley in tbe least' He feels a new boreil inl"n'"ni"t
with peace'He spendsmore and more
io-,
the doles in bis-blue IBM
;;;;;'ing-ttioueu
il1;'; "-."ti"tio"
even-the-cardceasesJo
But
fuzzy'
card. now w6m and
fr"- ni- nru"u solace' There is nothing h: :ag ?ut
1t11
nrst. He remains convinccd that he -hag
f,tii* oo.
"r bil
all possibleworlds' and he-wonders
6;
eiilil;d
"i
it"v oot tt6t from somethingamissin his
ilil'H:";;;
t"i let oc"ur to him that he has eaten too
f,fi]Ii?*J
much
---lqodlotus.
fune comes.Harley makes a midnight trip
th"o
'i"d;t[i;s
to eiter his sp-rins.semester
iili
t"'
-omcebrings forth Harley' Jr'' in
Sally
srad'es.,{ fEw days later
triumPh.
[ain anc

268 THOSE
WHOCAN:A SCTENCE
FtClrONREADER
July
comes
and
Salty,s
belly flartensand she
,,^l:9 _rFgl

new
sense
i,rui-*r,.ii i""i
iilffir"',r,,i,:
Tq"J"ff:.{,:,"."
rt ts not now a matter bf damage
from a night stick.
_ ,SaUy questions. Harlev o

.t;:'J[imft?
iift";-"fl
,HbU".ittit"i:Ll"ifi
hu. dele.sated
too mirch,-r.bat
ti. tiignti"Lif,tl

:1.?,,,.1".
aoruty
rs_psycbological,a oan
o"d

;u1ii'in-;;i;f'#

or boredom
ffl: Xi,ll:eermiasma

.oy August he is near desnair;

communicative. Can it be, ire Sally is morose and unwondeis, that he bas-oilpeace at_roo dear i rate?
::L::d
natYe, the public card_HarleyAre tfi" tw" ,ia&*of"ili,
and the pri;;; ;;:
nafley now themselvesalienaiedoo" fro,i--d;-oitit

ff*ilr'i"i|il;rT:[:::';ftJ"?:,*t't"i'rii-:'ivriiinl']li

tlr

cannot be sure. He thinks back

Chicapo. to
nls
",_l?t'"L first semesterat Bangsville-S: to
_chaotic
C. :;Ti;;;:t:;
ne says
to Sally one nisht aft,

fHE gtORE? 26t

POINiOFY\EW:I(HO'SM,NDING
him bv bis orofessors,he believeshe has earnedthem' the
of IsMery, minus the C's, Dls, and
ernd.cep'enne
R's. But the paperemploymehtin Department145 goes'
So does the scholarship.So does the twenty-one'nour
courseload: with professorsto Pleaseand a living to geL
time.
he
-riGwill need more afiir
a splendidexhibition of the stim'
tn"i G'-t, 'alienatiod,
Harley lies smokinga ciga'
ututinipo*ers -of
to
understand.
rette
and
tries
--;ilt
mean that man from GMAC will be around
".iU
buggingus. And tbe landlady."
"Um," saysSallY.
"fir"iu dean tdat I'll be uptigbt a lot of the time'"
'Um."
"Ii means that I am incapableof achieving.meaning'
ful relationshipswith society-asa whole and with iou at
the sametime."
'Um.'
"li meunsthat I will be full of ups and downs' I willbe hard on you. I may sometimesbeat little Harley'.,1
I wur
mav beat vou. I will be a messot contradlcuons.
not
hung
I
am
and
when
up,
b" iot""ut rIot" or lesshung
and square'
and
conformist
up I will be disgustinglystraight
proSablyifways -bealienatedto everythingbut
nia t
"iltlitite Harl-eyand tbe plywood room, whereverwe
you and
room."
wind uo havingour plvwood
;0.i'
."vi-sull,y. r'Mais il laut cuhiver notre iatilin'"
"What?"
."It's French, Number 5904. Professor175. It mean's
'never mina, baby, lefs us cultivate the old garden
again.'"

1'p;,gg;"ti'..;;:1""'f,i:ill:'"",3$i,"'iyy"lf#t":T'

,;l'il3 .,iT
'f
ilfi"'''..1"#'.3,ii:1ll"iif"T: UlT

pti*':l:ti"",:,f.T'i';',i:Pt'*vorlris.timesreveared

,"tl;
n*l i":itruii*f*
il"':iifi
r,t:"r
#

no.,magrcal.motds
andmiracutous
rnor""ui!,tnli""ii'lil
zap
the
virusor iroruiion,-ii"'i"l,nilJi,i
fl:ll?l"ou.ly

iifijT;Hx,:"4,1"'{,H:i,i'":",::Jiil*";}:t
tt rs
small boon.
-no not without
Dlowly,
considerable
sitting at his
-pain,

f'.iTJii:"y;l*l"l*ti**ii
ifi$.st]i1'"-'""'1l',""ff
iliitilitf
::n.,,tJ';l|.:Ti{;tlilil1'J'':
}l::j.'f
-"r"iii"i"ii*il"worated,
subsequently
fotded
#j
#rfr,i

to tbeplywood
""a
floor,and
u*r"flo*?ui"iiro'iir!

;i,n"ll",li.o",l",io"#Sil:
*llj"l4,k!!lid',,J:,ilnif

Sradesalone: even tlough th-eyhave not U"eo-assiinij

POINIOF rtEl(: THEQUICK-CHANGE

IN THETYPEWRITER
ARTIST
bY Robin Scott Wilsoq
TtcRE Is no way a story can be presented-to a percepiive
reader in such a way that the f,and of the author does
not show, Whatever point of view the author emPloysomdscient, detached, first or third person' narrator nor outside story-the simple fact that someone has s?"