pile of small fixes

2 files changed, 72 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/aux.otx b/aux.otx
index 8edc04e..620d9e9 100644
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diff --git a/congratulations.otx b/congratulations.otx
index 12e1043..6cff98a 100644
--- a/congratulations.otx
+++ b/congratulations.otx
@@ -186,10 +186,13 @@ My marriage did not survive this situation. Clearly, I was not insane and could
 I was beginning to feel more at home with Lobo and Bethiwitch, and a few older psychics and spiritualists who have managed to maintain a dual existence within such groups as the Spiritualist Church and the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Notice the word \dq{spiritual.} Does this mean \dq{supernatural} or \dq{holy}? Or what does it mean to have commerce with spirits?
 
 An elder of one of these organizations told me a very interesting story. I will repeat this more or less verbatim: 
+
 \Q{There was a little girl who could tell the future. She had a box with a bird on the top and every time she wanted to tell the future she would take out the box and consult the bird. One day, a group of people who wanted to be able to tell the future stole this box, but when they opened it they found that there was nothing inside, and the little girl told them the future.}
+\vskip 0.5em
+
 \noindent Which was probably that they would not be able to tell the future. At one time, I had considered calling this book: \booktitle{Two Years in the Bird Box}.
 
-\vskip 0.5em % TODO is this a real skip
+% \vskip 0.5em % TODO is this a real skip
 
 I did not feel particularly spiritual while I was in this bird box. I felt
 confined and confused and not fully in control of my personal mind set.
@@ -199,7 +202,7 @@ was then a rather esoteric organization run out of Hammond, Indiana, by
 several dedicated people whose backgrounds continue to remain obscure
 to the public.
 
-\vskip 0.5em % TODO is this a real skip
+% \vskip 0.5em % TODO is this a real skip
 
 At any rate, Lobo brought me the \e{\sc{ufo} Hotline} literature interleaved with more horror stories about psychiatric abuse and told me to be sure and subscribe to this service, but to keep away from psychiatrists. As usual.
 
@@ -261,7 +264,7 @@ It is just as likely, Schiff.
 
 Obviously, part of my increased productivity and cantankerousness had to do with continued psychic perception of the continued near presence of the powerful beings which we call \sc{ufo}s.
 
-We are conditioned to believe that the phenomena which I was experiencing \dq{just don't happen.} I think that without the sense of humor engendered by surrealism and dada, T might now be blankly wandering the streets, pointing to the sky and declaring \dq{they really exist,} or some such nonsense.
+We are conditioned to believe that the phenomena which I was experiencing \dq{just don't happen.} I think that without the sense of humor engendered by surrealism and dada, I might now be blankly wandering the streets, pointing to the sky and declaring \dq{they really exist,} or some such nonsense.
 
 The closest I actually came to insanity was just subsequent to sending a copy of \dq{The Astrebus} to Warren Sequoia. At this particular time, I woke up in the middle of the night startled. Something had made a sharp, cracking sound in the bedroom. I heard my son in the next room say \dq{Mommie} in his sleep, and I was aware of the presence of something in my apartment. I listened intently and heard no more sounds, so I thought I would go to the window and look for a light, as I had wakened once or twice to see distant lights in the sky.
 
@@ -367,7 +370,7 @@ The following is a series of actual \sc{ufo} encounters related to me by people
 
 % ONE
 \nonum\sec ONE
-\date{6\slash 24\slash 717}
+\date{6\slash 24\slash 77}
 
 Having decided to arrange these \sc{ufo} sightings in chronological order, I went early to my office this morning and opened my file, which I thought was in chronological order.
 
@@ -726,7 +729,7 @@ rendered against a dark background by the surrealist artist Salvador
 Dali.
 
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+\centerline{\picw=3.5in\inspic{figureone.png}}
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 \caption/f[torresphoto] Facsimile of photo developed (July 1970)
 \endinsert
@@ -947,7 +950,7 @@ Is it possible that a Nazi functionary familiar with secret circular aircraft, t
 I have drawn below (\ref[stoppedfan]) the image of a circular spinning object with windows, standing still. This is similar to the "Flugetrad" or "wingwheel" designed by the Nazis for vertical takeoff, which is included in Mattern-Friedrech's book. These objects are not the same, but they \e{are} similar. One of the most important aspects of their similarity is that they look more different standing still, than when blurred into a solid ellipse while spinning.
 
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@@ -1227,9 +1230,13 @@ Yet why am I allowed to penetrate the situation at this time? If these entities
 
 So: what happened?
 
+\vskip 1em
+
+\vskip 1em
+
 \centerline{{\typoscale[1200/]\sc{Torres Rebus} 5\slash 28\slash 77}}
 
-{\parindent=0pt
+{\parindent=0pt\parskip=1em
 
 \e{Pieces:}
 
@@ -1243,7 +1250,7 @@ So: what happened?
 
 \e{five:} New York City. Plays and music. Strange people.
 
-\e{six:} A spirit or \sc{ufo} entity (or entities) influencing Torres and Macer-Story.
+\e{six:} A spirit or \sc{ufo} entity (or entities) influencing Torres and Macer-Story.}
 
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@@ -1267,15 +1274,20 @@ before this contact that I could move the pendulum by \sc{pk} while holding the
 
 Materially, I now possess several color xerox copies of a \sc{ufo} which was sighted in 1969 in South America, and I have located a real living entity who answers to the composite name of K-sounding\slash Fox. This entity has written a novel with significant correspondences to my life situation and peculiarities of Torres and \sc{ufo} intrigue, though \sc{ufo}s are not mentioned specifically in the book.
 
-\centerline{{\typosize[1100/]\sc{Please Consult Diagram Two}}}
+\vskip 1em
+
+\centerline{{\sc{Please Consult Diagram Two}}}
+
+\vskip 1em
 
 This complex of events has been a little unsettling. In my journal right after these happenings, I wrote down some speculation about Satanic entities, but I do not now believe I have suffered any ill effects from this experience. On the contrary, I seem to have benefited in ways which in another context might seem miraculous.
 
 I really do not believe that my subconscious in conjunction with the Boston Public Library could have supplied me Fox\slash Knipscheer's name in the persona of a Scottish music teacher, unless I am more spaced out telepathically than I realize. My tastes do not ordinarily run to pulp mystery, but are more esoteric. I think I would like to meet this spirit\slash \sc{ufo}naught in another context. Perhaps we could do an act together. In a sense, we already have.
 
-\hbox to \hsize{\hrulefill}
 
-\vskip 2em
+\break
+
+\null\vskip 5em
 
 So endeth \dq{Notes on Torres.}
 
@@ -1744,7 +1756,7 @@ Either several humans associated with the Condon Committee and Project Blue Book
 
 Not to mention a bit hilarious.
 
-In Hyneck's book \booktitle{The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry}, he mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will realize, the \e{head} of this investigative committee) detailing: \dq{\ld Condon phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing (by a person \sq{in contact} with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped \sc{ufo} on the salt flats at Bonneville\ld} (See p. 19, this book, for word of a real rectangular \sc{ufo}.)\fixnote \ld\ In another instance he (Condon) passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for three billicn dollars) made to him by an \sq{agent of the third universe} to construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our world.}
+In Hyneck's book \booktitle{The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry}, he mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will realize, the \e{head} of this investigative committee) detailing: \dq{\ld Condon phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing (by a person \sq{in contact} with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped \sc{ufo} on the salt flats at Bonneville\ld} (See p. 19, this book, for word of a real rectangular \sc{ufo}.)\fixnote \ld\ In another instance he (Condon) passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for three billicn dollars) made to him by an \sq{agent of the third universe} to construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our world.
 
 For some reason, Condon's alleged behavior appeals to my theories on the extraterrestrial sense of humor.
 
@@ -1800,7 +1812,7 @@ In the experience detailed in \dq{Notes on Torres,} for example, I was led all r
 
 The plot of this coincidental novel was hilariously reminiscent both of quirky attitudes brought to my attention by Torres, and some of the raunchier elements of my ex-marriage, not to mention various of my experiences in California.
 
-This associative event is beyond ordinary coincidence. It is also funny and not-funny, like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they are about to sit down. Or opening a fracture in someone's leg so that she wants to return to the psychic center to shoot the breeze about the electrical blackout in New York City and construction and demolition work just as T am also concerned with psychic and possibly \sc{ufo} oddities concerning the blackout in tandem with my personal construction and demolition work.
+This associative event is beyond ordinary coincidence. It is also funny and not-funny, like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they are about to sit down. Or opening a fracture in someone's leg so that she wants to return to the psychic center to shoot the breeze about the electrical blackout in New York City and construction and demolition work just as I am also concerned with psychic and possibly \sc{ufo} oddities concerning the blackout in tandem with my personal construction and demolition work.
 
 This coincidence (p. 89)\fixnote\ is interesting and meat for speculation. It is also a little horrifying to think that this woman probably had a bone in her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely attributes to \sc{ufo} entities.
 
@@ -1929,10 +1941,10 @@ This consciousness \dq{expansion} involves a real electrical alteration of the n
 
 This time insult effect also contributes to the dual absorption effect which has been observed in chlorophyl pigment. This dual absorption effect has been documented and discussed by researchers all over the world, but never fully explained. It is fundamental to the process of photosynthesis, which is a basic life process. In response to the alleged warning (p. 84)\fixnote\ about traps of implicit assumptions and the non-absolute nature of all known physical laws, I would like (in context of the foregoing rapid descent\slash ascent into serious technicalities) to advance my own explanation for the unexplained time anomaly in the absorption process of photosynthesis. This concerns chemical transitions which, as observed, seem to be too \dq{rapid} for accurate observation or inexplicably \dq{simultaneous.} These are \e{insulted} chemical transitions. Photosynthesis is a life process and during this life process the chlorophyl-bearing plant is breathing prana.
 
-T will list first what is officially \e{not known} about photosynthesis: 
+I will list first what is officially \e{not known} about photosynthesis: 
 \begitems\style a
 * Differing sites in chlorophyl pigment absorb light at different rates, and selectively prefer differing frequencies of light, ranging the spectrum from blue to red. It is not known how or why these sites select the light.
-* Simultaneously, at sites distant (miroscopically) from one another, chlorophy! exhibits oxidation and reduction reactions which seemingly have no functional link, except their co-presence in one substance. The oxidation\slash reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally the reduction process releases an ion which is then absorbed during the oxidation process. Naturally, this sequence of liberation and absorptlon takes sequential time. It is not known how chlorophyl, during the process of photosynthesis, manages to dispense with sequential requirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in separate locations. 
+* Simultaneously, at sites distant (miroscopically) from one another, chlorophyl exhibits oxidation and reduction reactions which seemingly have no functional link, except their co-presence in one substance. The oxidation\slash reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally the reduction process releases an ion which is then absorbed during the oxidation process. Naturally, this sequence of liberation and absorptlon takes sequential time. It is not known how chlorophyl, during the process of photosynthesis, manages to dispense with sequential requirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in separate locations. 
 * When subjected to light stimulus, chlorophyl exhibits a time delay between initial illumination and response which indicates mediation by so-called \dq{dark responses,} which have not been fully understood.
 \enditems
 
@@ -1974,7 +1986,7 @@ This is not some frivolous idea I picked up while eating carrots and reading a p
 
 I have just finished reading Carl Sagan's recent book \booktitle{The Dragons of Eden}, in which he talks about the evolution of intelligence. In this book, Sagan details the physical structure of the brain as this relates to evolution from primitive life forms to man. He discusses the possibility that highly-evolved extraterrestrial life forms may have a shape and mental capacities which are as surprising to us as man might be to a reptile aware of the hereditary relationship. In fact, the title of Sagan's book is based on this concept of the ancient reptile heritage which survives in man in the limbic area of the brain. You will have to read \booktitle{The Dragons of Eden} for a full exposition of this view:
 
-\dq{She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a reptile!}\ld\ as the archetypal strip show hustler is reputed to yell out to the patrons of the snake dance at the local county fair.
+\dq{She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a reptile!} \ld as the archetypal strip show hustler is reputed to yell out to the patrons of the snake dance at the local county fair.
 
 Sagan includes involuntary hissing behavior as evidence in man of the survival of this reptilian characteristic. I do not know about Sagan, but I have never hissed at an enemy in my life. I have never witnessed reptilian hissing behavior in a human being and I do not know actually that hissing is a primary characteristic of reptiles, some of whom are vocally silent.
 
@@ -2038,46 +2050,49 @@ Actually, previous to this accident, I had written a ballad:
 \centerline{{\it\ul{Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo \sc{ufo}}}}
 \vskip 1em
 
-{\parskip=0pt\parindent=0pt
+{\parskip=0pt
 
-Goodbye, transcontinental: I can't fly west no more
+\noindent Goodbye, transcontinental: I can't fly west no more
 
-\nudge I walk up to the teller and the keys don't punch the score
+I walk up to the teller and the keys don't punch the score
 
-This machine is out of order, though my account as full of dough
-\nudge I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
+\noindent This machine is out of order, though my account as full of dough
+
+I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
 
 \vskip 1em
 
-Goodbye tender romance: chains vibrate in the locks
+\noindent Goodbye tender romance: chains vibrate in the locks
 
-\nudge The door swings automatic: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+The door swings automatic: I have cooked my bobbie sox
 
-My stainless steel gift wedding knife jumped off the butter
+\noindent My stainless steel gift wedding knife jumped off the butter
 
-\nudge \sc{SO}: I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
+\sc{SO}: I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
 
 \vskip 1em
 
-Met my lover down in Soho: he got stranded on a train
+\noindent Met my lover down in Soho: he got stranded on a train
 
-\nudge Mojo knocked out the en*gynes, left me standing in the rain
+Mojo knocked out the en*gynes, left me standing in the rain
 
-Well, the longer that I stood there, the wetter that I got
+\noindent Well, the longer that I stood there, the wetter that I got
 
-\nudge Mojo knocked out the en*gynes: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+Mojo knocked out the en*gynes: I have cooked my bobbie sox
 
 \vskip 1em
 
-So, goodbye transcontinental: I can't fly the western zone
+\noindent So, goodbye transcontinental: I can't fly the western zone
+
+If that bugger hits the en*gyne we'll be falling like a stone
 
-\nudge If that bugger hits the en*gyne we'll be falling like a stone
+\noindent so, if a circuit hits you shortly, it is then that you will know
 
-so, if a circuit hits you shortly, it is then that you will know
+I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}\par}
 
-\nudge I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}\par}
+\vskip 2em 
 
-Which not only mentions my ironical fear that psychokinetic energies might somehow disintegrate an airplane in which I was riding, but specifically links the \sc{ufo} reality with \dq{mojo,} that indefinable and extra-sensory method of persuasion so important to gypsies and street people.
+\noindent Which not only mentions my ironical fear that psychokinetic energies might somehow disintegrate an airplane in which I was riding, but specifically links the \sc{ufo} reality with \dq{mojo,} that indefinable and extra-sensory method of persuasion so important to gypsies and street people.
 
 Mojo is a sort of charisma, but it is specifically related to iuck and the ability to persuade by hypnotic means. Some have identified mojo with sex, but though mojo includes (of course!) sexual persuasion, this psychic ability is not confined in its exercise to sexual prowess, but includes the power of mind over matter and over the psyche of other individuals.
 
@@ -2124,11 +2139,11 @@ In retrospect, I believe that I have been educated. I do not claim to understand
 
 \null\vskip 1em
 
-\chap Selected Bibliography
+\nonum\chap Selected Bibliography
 
 \vskip 2em
 
-\booktitle{Primary Processes in Photosynthesis}, Martin D. Kamen, Academic Press, New York, 1963.
+\nudge \booktitle{Primary Processes in Photosynthesis}, Martin D. Kamen, Academic Press, New York, 1963.
 
 \booktitle{Biochemistry of Photosynthesis}, R.P.F. Gregory, Wiley Interscience, Belfast, 1971.
 
@@ -2138,23 +2153,25 @@ Other Books mentioned in this text are available at libraries and bookstores by
 
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-\sc{IF YOU SHOULD HAVE ANY}\nl
-\sc{QUESTIONS}\nl
-\sc{?}\nl\par}
+\centerline{\sc{IF YOU SHOULD HAVE ANY}}
+\centerline{\sc{QUESTIONS}}
+\centerline{\sc{?}}}
 
-Do not hesitate to phone my answering service.
-212-691-7950 ext 285\par}
+\vskip 3em
+
+\centerline{Do not hesitate to phone my answering service.}
+\centerline{212-691-7950 ext 285}
 
 \vfill
 
 \sc{Persons} mentioned in this book are real persons. Names have been changed in certain cases to avert publicity. I do not give out the names of persons who have appeared in this book under a pseudonym. Please do not ask me to do so.
 
+\vfill
+
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-\chap Epilogue
+\nonum\chap Epilogue
 
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