SHE is a tall dark beauty taining a great may spots: one above the breast, one above the belly, one above the knee, one above the ankle, one above the buttock, one on the back of the neck. All of these are on the left side, more or less in a row, as you go up and down:
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The hair is black as ebony, the skin white as snow.
BILL is tired of Snow White now. But he ot tell her. No, that would not be the way. Bill t bear to be touched. That is oo. To have aouch him is unbearable. Not just Snow White but also Kevin, Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem or Dan. That is a peculiar aspect of Bill, the leader. We speculate that he doesnt want to be involved in human situations any more. A withdrawal. Withdrawal is one of the four modes of dealing with ay. We speculate that his reluce to be touched springs from that. Dan does not go along with the aheory. Dan does not believe in ay. Dan speculates that Bills reluce to be touched is a physical maion of a metaphysical dition that is not ay. But he is the only one who speculates that. The rest of us support ay. Bill has let us know in subtle ways that he doesnt want to be touched. If he falls down, you are not to pick him up. If someone holds out a hand iing, Bill smiles. If it is time to wash the buildings, he will pick up his own bucket. Dont hand him a bucket, for in that circumstahere is a ce that your hands will touch. Bill is tired of Snow White. She must have noticed that he doesnt go to the shower room, now. We are sure she has noticed that. But Bill has not told her in so many words that he is tired of her. He has not had the heart to unfold those cruel words, we speculate. Those cruel words remain locked in his lack of heart. Snow White must assume that his absence from the shower room, in these days, is an aspect of his not liking to be touched. We are certain she has assumed that. But to what does she attribute the "not-liking" itself? We dont know.
"OH I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words I always hear!" Snow White exclaimed loudly. We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats." Words in the world that were not the words she always heard? What words could those be? "Fish slime," Howard said, but he was a visitor, and rather crude too, and we instantly regretted that we had lent him a sleeping bag, and took it away from him, and took away his bowl too, and the Chix that were in it, and the milk on top of the Chix, and his spoon and napkin and chair, and begaing him with boxes, to indicate that his wele had been used up. We soon got rid of him. But the problem remained. What words were those? "Now we have bee sug the mop again," Kevin said, but Kevin is easily disced. "Injuns!" Bill said, and when he said that we were glad he was still our leader, although some of us had been w about him lately. "Murder and create!" Henry said, and that was weak, but lauded, and Snow White said, "That is one Ive never heard before ever," and that gave us ce, and we all began to say things, things that were more or less satisfactory, or at least adequate, to serve the purpose, for the time being. The whole thing apered over, for the time being, and didnt break out into the open. If it had broken out into the open, then we would really have bee sug the mop in a big way, that Monday.
THEN we went out to wash the buildings. buildings fill your eye