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The Outsider

Alexander Shevek

1. The view from outside.  

     Dear Reader, 

     I am not like you. 

     I am not now nor have I ever been a Christian. Nor a Moslem. Nor a Jew. Nor a Hindu. All these religions, all organized religion, seem bizarre to me. Yes, I know most humans throughout history have believed (or claimed to believe or tried to

   Even if the Abbey is Spanish Mission outside, inside it is more Victorian than anything else, spacious and comfy overstuffed furniture indirectly lit by faux Tiffany lamps. Classical music plays in the background. Kelly sees Shevek sitting on a lime green velvet couch.

   "Prof. Shevek..."

   "Alex, please. We have "done time" together, have we not? We

   Nancy looks in the shallow hole she's scraped and sees bright red flecks of blood in her black diarrhea. "Great," she groans to herself. "Old and fresh blood." Using an almost dry leaf she wipes herself and then brushes her hand over her small round ass, white and muscled. "Well, haven't lost all my fat yet," she childes herself. She pulls up her pants

Chapter 2 -- Sing Goddess...

April 2

Sing Goddess, the wrath of Achilles...

--The first line of the Iliad          

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns

driven time and again off course...

           --The first line of the Odyssey     

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

    -- Camus

   Kelly is lighting

   The efficiency of the police is based on much practice with UCSC protesters and soon Kelly is being ushered into a holding cell. It has been years since he was last arrested but you couldn't tell by the large drab room, painted in peeling certainly-not-soothing vomit green and furnished with an exposed toilet in one corner and a built-in concrete bench