Kenosha Kid sequence as an onomatopoeia of schizophrenia

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2003 12:07:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
scheper at antelecom.net writes:

> I often had trouble with driving. Once, I began to read the
> continual "No Right Turn" signs as imputing my personal sin
> without any remedy (having broken the law so that to me the
> law commanded jouissance) which turned to existential dread.
> 

Glenn's Kenosha Kid sequence is inspired!  May I add a bit of my own 
anecdotal onomatopoeiac memory?:

I, too, had trouble driving.  Not only the gloves on my windshield wipers 
making visibility worse than my already deep myopia caused from inside the 
sad little Renault but also because it was my first visit to my parents' 
then-new house in spiritkilling suburban connecticut.  Found the street and 
begin to hyperventilate, the sight of twenty or thirty split-level ranches 
havoc-making on my (delicate, cosmopolitan) nervous system but could not find 
the actual house.  Remembering my mother having told me something about a 
"cul-de-sac" it occurred to me that the sign "No Outlet" might lead me 
directly to the place.  Except that fear of the sign's prophetic qualities 
made me turn around, head for the nearest piano bar, and consume several 
doses of sambuca before I decided it really wasn't a good tie for a visit and 
probably never would be.  

Non-metaphoric afternote:  many years later, after my parents had both died 
and left the horrible (but valuable) house to both me and my brother, I 
discovered my brother had secretly taken over the deed during my father's 
last illness and I was "left" with half of nothing and no outlet as the 
inheritance had only been orally promised.  Lesson?  BELIEVE ALL SIGNS
Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225
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