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...starting to get interested in the story. You see, I had recently competed in a local swim meet where I had captured the 100 decibel "Don't splash water on me" competition and placed in the 200 I.M. (Impervious Manner) event in which the competitor must pretend she is asleep despite her mother yelling at her to do 200 things. But I knew Big League swimming was different and although a meet sponsored by Seventeen Magazine conjured visions of young girls trying to get into a pair of designer jeans while doing the backstroke, I realized there was more...
Unlike Cyrus Vance, who was reticent and believed that the less he said on an issue the better, Muskie is talkative to the point of garrulity. Only once did his diplomatic presence fail him totally. During a lengthy speech on Austrian history at the festivities in Vienna, Muskie fell asleep in his very prominent front-row seat. Lord Carrington tried to wake him with a jab of his elbow, but finally gave up. Not until applause rang out did the Secretary of State's head snap up and his body straighten. Muskie did not seem particularly embarrassed...
...Marie-Thérèse reading, sleeping, contemplating her face in a mirror or posing (in the Vollard suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned. In one sense, the body of Marie-Thérèse, curled up in Nude Asleep in a Landscape, 1934, is seen as a graffitist might see it?a lilac-toned pink blob, twisted and curled to show its openings, nipples and navel, the body recomposed in terms of its sexual signs. It is a hieroglyph for arousal, tumescence in paint. Yet it is something more...
Once the convention settled down to business, there were papers and palaver aplenty. One of the more interesting scientific sessions involved sleep and depression. It has long been known that depressed people have trouble staying asleep and tend to wake up early. And lately doctors have learned that they also launch earlier than normal people into the intense period of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements (REM) that occur under closed lids...
...arose to open the blinds. It was blacked out. Happy that the gray had dissipated, he fell asleep in the chair, staring into the dark...