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Indulging in the scenery, digging up jobs when needed, floating ... A month later running away again, this time from obnoxious religions and abject poverty into the hills again, back across Amer ica to Slumberville, to a fall semester of meditation and a winter of hard luck and a spring with no sex life - and a dip in the freezing Atlantic, diving deep, feeling the suck and pull of the last long breath. I ' m gonna skip ' Career Objective ' for a while, and go on to ' Educa¬ tion, ' said Norman to Dorothy, who nodded her approval and smiled, looking a bit like Janis. Now I create the impressive facade, thought Norman, as he typed: Pufts University, Mudfill, Ass. B.A. in English, June 1976. Now what? Five courses in Creative Writing? (What ' s your specialty, asked the prospec¬ tive employer. Writing what comes to my head, answered the prospec¬ tive employee, smiling. Sorry, you aren ' t disciplined. We need people who have a definite idea as to what you want. We don ' t need artists, there are plenty around, roaming the streets.) Professor Braintree, of the English Department, once said to Norman, You can be whatever you like. Norman thought he meant in manners of dress and peculiarity of sex. You must, however, bring an eagerness to your education. If you nurse your knowledge, it will grow, grow ten¬ thousandfold! Norman agreed. He had brought with him to college a light-weight limited teen-age confusion, and he going to graduate with a beautiful branching tree rooted in that confusion. Norman remembered a conversation over pin-ball last week with Bad-News Drizzle. You have to coax the ball with your flippers, he cautioned Norman, and Norman thought of college education in that perspective: I had five courses, five important courses in the last four years, and they were just like the pin-balls in the last game. The first ball was a course in Philosophy. I was new to the machine, saw how flimsy the rules were, found out where the most points will be scored, and I watched the lights glow. I was fascinated. Then the ball hit a snag I didn ' t know about. The ball dropped straight down to my flippers, and I let it slip. Ha! Y ' mean when it was your turn to explain your theory to the class, you blew it! Bad-News blew smoke rings. Yep, mumbled Norman, mortified. The next ball I took careful aim. Psychology. Hit the slot for the mind! And the ball plunked around for a while, not scoring anything worth my quarter, the lights and blinkers began to bore me. I saw an easy shot, muffed it, thought bad about it, and instantly the ball was drawn to that magnetic snag and the ball, again, was lost. But I realized, this time, that a slight push to the machine would change the ball ' s course after hitting the snag. Bad-News took a long pull from his cigarette, unimpressed. 16
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