By Ralph Osborne
The last decade among 1961 and 1971 was once a time of tumult; of innocence misplaced, received, and misplaced back. in the course of these years, Ralph Osborne moved from the confusions of being 17 to, in short, believing that at 27, he knew every thing. it truly is, he says, "my model of the Divine Comedy -- extra comedic than divine."From some other place is a regularly hilarious, sometimes tragic account of the exploration of obstacles, internal and outer, via a time of unfastened love and psychedelic event. and as the paths among Heaven and Hell, reliable and undesirable, and up and down aren't linear, this booklet is inevitably an account of 1 man's first journey round the circle. Osborne's Holy Grail is id. His quest, during which he units out to benefit "a small piece of the puzzle --one little factor i may be aware of for certain," takes him from a working-class tenement at the east coast, during the privileged confines of Westmount, west to the detoxing air of the prairies, and east back, to the stoned-out beginnings of Toronto-the-hip the place he turns into normal supervisor of the notorious Rochdale College.From some other place is a trip pushed via the ever-relevant query: to be, or to develop into? it is also the marginally surreal description of the skinny line among simplicity and squalor.
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Possum's hands, smallish , delicate, wer e forever moving, a s if a pair of sparrows had grow n from hi s wrists. He wa s always drawing, coming a t the pape r fro m aroun d th e corne r an d over the top , lik e the cuddywiffte r h e was. Once, as we talked, h e was fooling aroun d with a child's watercolour set , makin g wha t looke d lik e lon g line s straight up and down, o f random widths an d lengths. Five minute s later he turne d his composition so I could se e it right side up, and there, lookin g ou t from al l the place s he hadn't touched, as if from a streaky, multicoloured mirror , was me.
This is a sad fact. Sh e pushe d a s far as she could push , and th e mor e hoops you jumped throug h th e mor e woul d appear. O f course , most women were aware of this, while men, as a rule, weren't — they ignored it, or didn't care. The gossip , almost all of it sexual, was what various people had said or done t o her o r she had t o them. I was hip enoug h t o realize that although sh e had been tellin g storie s to Rainer sh e was really talking t o me , or at me . This wa s irritating and fascinatin g at th e same time .
Although we kept tab s on on e anothe r for a while, I saw very little of Bill after that. When he died too soon a few years ago, many newspapers noted hi s passing, most with regret. 46 Early Regin a Degen, who had been at university in Saskatoon, was now in Regina. She and her father, whom she, and everybody else, always addressed as Ernie , though t i t bes t tha t sh e spen d a semeste r o r tw o there , owing to her condition. People migh t talk . When I got off the trai n arid went t o th e roomin g house wher e she shared a space with he r old private school roommate, she was five months pregnant .