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Show Acting Alone Page 119 bark - they'd gotten that used to G-men and choppers in the previous fourteen months); and a big man in a dark three-piece suit with too-broad shoulders brought Mama Mae Bell a downright dossier on Sam! It said, among other things, that Sam's mom used to be secrtary of the Salt Lake City branch of the ACLU! That was before she went insane and was put away in a Catholic loony bin! (-oooh, Mama Mae Bell, you'd better keep that character away from your son and your niece! God knows what hideous things he'll try to slip between the lines of your son's book - or between your niece's legs!) The dossier also had the names, addresses, and lists of past seditious activities of several avowed Marxists all across these United States with whom Sam had had "intimate" association - two of whom had been recently arrested in Chicago or Houston or someplace for painting a swastika on a Milton Friedman lecture poster. Also there were these incredibly beautiful photographs of Sam's poetic blasphemy on the English department bulletin boards back in Kansas. The photos were in sharp, clean focus and color, professionally lit. Apparently whoever took these pictures had enjoyed the full cooperation of the English department, and had been allowed to tote strobe lights and Klieg lights and tripods and stuff into the GTA's communal office. There was a brief glossary of Sam's poetic terms provided in a sealed envelope. The glossary was typed in the unmistakably slovenly and illiterate style of a certain former amphetamine addict who hung around the GTA office pretending to be Sam's own pal. The speedfreak was a hireling! Sam should've known. Only someone being paid to do so would've sat and pretended to listen attentively |
