Word: fogel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tale of a nameless deranged narrator who sits in his room at an overpriced Swiss sanitarium and purports to write a novel about a demented dreamer named Timothy Fogel. The narrator's own story about his itch to transform his experience into art and the Fogel "novel" are offered in alternating chapters...
...Fogel, the son of an immigrant sign painter and a halfwit shopgirl, is born in London and drifts through childhood and adolescence preoccupied with his special powers. He believes he can become what he observes-objects made of stone, iron, wood, glass. "The god he wanted to reach wasn't interested in words. Only in achieved states. Palpable transformations. He would be known only by those who had gone through them." Fogel's crowning obsession is the diamond. Acquiring some through a friendly burglar, he becomes a fanatical student of facets and crystallography, of refraction angles and cleavage...
...Paradox Ahead." Yet it appears that Fogel's story never existed in a coherent written form. The insane narrator is eventually removed to a hospital for the criminally insane, and his father tells the police that his son's manuscript was nothing but pages of wavy lines, zigzags, dots, loops and dashes...
Psychiatrist Theodore Lidz feels that abortion is always "a potential major trauma," and Washington, D.C., Psychiatrist Julius Fogel believes that "a psychological price is paid. It may be alienation, it may be a pushing away from human warmth." In the experience of Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson, abortion is often followed by a delayed reaction of depression. Oddly enough, the father is more likely to feel guilty than the mother...
What about the argument of Catholic Firebrand Bernadette Devlin that there could be a natural political alliance linking deprived Protestants and Catholics alike? Some day, concedes Fogel, but settling scores comes first. "I make no bones about it. If any people who look to me for protection are found with a bullet in their head or a bullet in the back, the consequences will be the severest I can imagine. I cannot allow people to go unavenged...