THE THRESHOLD MASOCHISM DENIED I will have unquestioning obedience. But you can't say it now, so you're reasonable. And they're not. You think too much. They laugh—he laughs. But he means it. You can see it behind the smile. Morning run cold shower CE bulging muscles ten 'A's don't t Sweat straight bat head down clean shave four 'A's don't stop OP Oxbridge blues first marry good job breed more can't stop .. No! Too late to ask why, too bad. My life, not yours, I can stop it. Think you can fill up my time, stop me thinking, work it out of me. You can't! Hypocrisy. Structured creativity, broad mindedness in the proper spheres, sound base of discipline, traditions. The dangerous drug originality . .. thinking habits with Insidious and uncontrolled results. Cannot but take a serious view ... thinking or thunkenness (For a limited period only . . . our 627 Vintage Thought) And he moans and he moans--to those who don't matter. But I suppose when we're square We must blame someone, A sheepish grin Mustn't we? Douglas Williamson IV A
THE ROOM Paint smeared air, jam-jars full of murky water, and bits and pieces all over, this to me is the art studio. This one single room is a hive of activity where people sit dawdling with paint on paper or scribble furiously on a sheet of coarse-grained paper with a pencil which has been hacked to bits with a pen-knife. Here also several masterpieces are produced by rather odd-looking people. Squat sixth-formers and lanky boys at the other end of the School sit perched on a chair or table, crouching over small pieces of paper or staring at an engine long-since stopped. The modern tables with "war-wounds" of paint and glue stand roughly in order, not that many people are bothered about order in this room re-named Bedlam. The Master that struts around in here must be mad according to his pupils. He sometimes runs, throws, leaps about and hits people with their work, while at other times he may as well be a dead hamster lying prone in the bottom of its cage. 42
