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(“I just hope I can handle it,” Jane said again. Meaning the session. “There’s so much going on in my body at one time it’s hard to handle that too,” she laughed. She referred to the continuing series of changes — improvements — taking place all through her body. At the moment these involve definite extra mobility — and soreness and itching — in her ankles and feet, for example. Right now her arms look longer, straighter. Today she’s been “pretty well out of it,” while trying to help me get through the changes we want to make in the copy-edited Mass Events. She’s helped a great deal here, writing the initial version of certain notes, which I’ll then add to before returning the manuscript to Prentice-Hall for printing.
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(Jane yawned at 8:42: “I almost feel him around … I guess I’ll try. …” She sipped wine and laughed. “I think it’ll be short.”)
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(9:18 P.M. “I come out, and look at my eyes,” Jane said half humorously. True, her eyes were relaxed into slits — although they gradually opened normally as we talked. “I’m glad I did that,” she said, meaning that she’d held the session, “but I really didn’t know whether I could. …”
(We laughed again when we considered that Seth had tempered some of his material for Mass Events. “I’d hate to see it if he hadn’t,” Jane said.
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My present uncomfortable state isn’t drastic, by any means, but it is getting my attention — which, after all, is the reason I’m creating it to begin with. Maybe I’d be better off, I told Jane, if I’d just blow my top. Only who, or what, would I direct my frustration to, or at? On the one hand Jane, Seth, and I want to see our work presented to the world as originally conceived, as a way to offer ideas to think about. On the other hand, I can visualize the dilemma those at the publisher’s feel when they’re being asked to print ideas that are, at least in part, so contrary to accepted belief structures in a very important field.…