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In that way it is an escape from reality. There are signs ofa lack of patience with the messiness and raggedness with which we are confronted in real life. For despite the fact that in such contexts Joan Didion trusts her own conscience as little as anyone else's, it is interesting to note what she would give herself to if she did heed the apocalyptic vision which informs that conscience: ' ... it would lead me out onto the desert with Marion Faye, out to where he stood in The Deer Park looking east to Los Alamos and praying, as if for rain, that it would happen ...

Some say she is destined to be a lunatic. '''I thank Gawd," the white-trash woman said fervently, "I ain't a lunatic'" (p. 209). Back on the farm Mrs Turpin cannot get the image out of her mind - a wart hog from hell. She tries to greet her black workhands in the usual way. She had always said that black people should be shown love, for in that way they worked better for you. She has to tell them of the incident in the doctor's waiting-room, but, seeing through their flattery and reassurance, she finds no consolation.

104. 13. I refer to a seminar which the anthropologist Dr Aylward Shorter and I ran as part of the final year for the Religion with Literature course at Bristol, and to Dr Shorter's paper, 'Creative Imagination and the Language of religious traditions in Africa', published in The African Ecclesiastical Review (1980), pp. 175-203. 14. D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915; Penguin, 1970), p. 195. 15. D. H. Lawrence, 'Climbing down Pisgah' (1924) in Phoenix: Posthumous Papers (New York, 1936), Chapter VI.

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