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Toni's
last name happen to be? Why,
Harvey ... which
happens to yield another coupling of sounds: Alvey
and
Harvey! Then, of course,
there are the couple
of
Colleens, Russ' wife and
Colleen herself... Was she
really named after Russ' wife? Yes, and I
grew up being
called 'Little Colleen' and Russ' wife 'Big Colleen.'
And
you both grew up in the same room—another
kind of
coupling!... Big and little, little and big...
say, what is an
'l' but a big 'e', and what is an 'e'
but a little 'l'. And just
look at your name,
Colleen Coleman; why, it's
a
veritable treasure of couplings. Two l's and two e's in the
middle of your first name. And another 'le' in the middle
of your last name. And both names not only
begin with
the same letter c, but with the same syllable col...
Had Colleen ever thought
of this before? Well, yes,
vaguely, when she was a child and learning
to write; but
what it brought more vividly to mind is that
she is the
middle of three daughters and has always been sorry
that
her father never had a
son... Son—Pete Coleman's
son — Man — son — Manson — Charles
Manson —
Charlton Heston—Christ—Christmas—Cross—son
of
man—man—son—death—birth—birth—death...
It's like a
tone poem on the theme
of coupling...
coupling... coupling... of course!
Coupling can mean
lovemaking or it can mean 'getting it together.'
How clever! What an
artful way of musing on your
identity, by playing with the sounds
of your own name!
Colleen: Now, that
is interesting! Thanks, I didn't
know I knew that.
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What
I have just described, as I said, did
not happen
as described. But it did all happen...as
did Freud's case
histories. And who will say that Freud's
case histories
are not more artful when
scientific—and the more
lasting for that?
Speaking of Freud, isn't it ironic
that the dream, of all
things, was the key with which he opened human
nature
to scientific scrutiny?
Quintessentially subjective,
unpredictable, uncontrollable, non-replicable
fugitives
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