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‘Anns in Chins. Mere oan Gerber
Atte Cover Norma Roe
lohan Tiree Novell, Cynthia Och
‘The Canal Glasy. Cynthia Ori
‘The Empire of Kalman the Cripple. Yea berg
Foes Arthur Miler
(a's Bar Rhoda Leman
‘The and Whi. dig Lewis,
‘Te fevsh Wr Tova Reich
[ok ond Assn Amicon Romance Norma Rosen
La Midi Ener Hee, Steve Storn
eh’ fey Gloia Grech
Leitton: Fe Fictions. Cys rick
My Ov Ground Hugh Nissenson
(0 My Ameria! Johanna Kaplan
‘The Pagon Fai ond Other Str. Cynthia Cc
Plague ef Dreamers Steve Str
‘The Ree Rat Daniel Stern
‘Ship the Hate. Yehuda Eerg
Shire... Agnon
‘The Stolen fe. Jay Neugeboren
The Suiie Aesdomy. Dania Ste
Wiehe sik Tries. Melvin le Bubet
The Continuing
Silence of a Poet:
THE COLLECTED
STORIES OF
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CONTENTS
‘The Continuing Silence ofa Poet
‘Three Days and « Child
‘A Long Hot Day, his Despair, his Wile
and his Daughter
"The Yate Evening Express
Galia’s Weng
Flood Tide
Facing the Forests
‘The Last Commander
Early in the Summer of r970
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295Facing the Forests
NorHiER winter lost in fog. As usual he did aothing;
postponed examinations, Ife papers unwritten, He had com>
eed all his courses long ago, attended all the lectures, and the
‘of signatures on his tattered student cad testified tha all had
led their duty, silently disappeared, and lft the rest ofthe task
his owa limp hands. But words weary him; his own, let alone the
of others. He drifts ffom one rented room to. another,
less, jobless. But for an occasional job tutoring backward
children he would starve to death. Heve he i approzching thirty nd
4 bald spor crowns his wilting head. His defective eyesight blurs
‘any things, His dreams at night are dull, They are uneventful a
yellow waste, where afew stunted trees may spring up in a moment
Df grace, and + naked woman. At student revels he is already looked
‘at with faint ridicule. The speed with which he gets drunk is a
regular part of the programme. He never misses a party. They need
him stil. His limp figure is extremely popular and there is no one
ike Nim for bridging gaps between people. His erstwhile fellow
students have since graduated and may be seen carcyng bulging
Iiefeses, om their way 0 work every morning of the weck
Sometimes, at noon, returning from their office, they may encounter
him in the street with his jstawake eyes: a grey moth in search of
its frst meal. They, having heard of his disipations, promptly
pronounce the unanimous, half-pitying half-erasperated decree!
‘Slide!
Solitude is what he needs. For he is not without talent nor does he
lack brains. He aeeds to strengthen his wll power
"He, a8 eu, will drop his arms by his sides in a gesture of pious
spar, back up against the nearest available wall, languily crose
his legs and plead in a whisper: “But where? Go on, tell me,
where?”
For look, he himself ie craving solitude. He plainly needs to
renew his acquaintance with words, to try to concentrate on the
material that threatens ever to wear him down, But then he would