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agony on that dreary island, however, is her discovery of strength. She
wants to be weaker, more mortal, than Dylan- but he is dead
and
she alive-weaker than all the men in Laugharne and on Elba whom
she uses "to kill the critically carping maiden aunt of a mind
that
nagged the prostrate soul out of me." But she cannot. Her strength
does not lie in any ability to pull herself together-that she refuses
ever to do. The solemn little adolescent girl that lurks inside the thor–
oughly intelligent and even hard-headed woman has set out to
be
bad
and never does, as little girls never can except with the proper outside
pressure, find a way to stop. At the end she leaves Elba having shocked
and antagonized its strictly decorous population and chanting "All the
king's horses, and all the king's men, couldn't put Caitlin Thomas
together again."
She knows, though, that she is going to endure. The discovery
of
one's endurance is always shocking, morally revolting. Perhaps indeed
it should
be
kept a secret. But to Caitlin it comes with everything she
does and everything that happens to her, and the more she screams
and
is sick at herself the more the truth of it hangs on. And what Caitlin
knows, she admits: that any trifle, or even any cheap substitute for
a
trifle, will do for the making of something she can call a life. She says
at
one point:
STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY TBI
ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, AND JULY
~J
1946 (Title 39, United States Code,
SectiII
233) SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION OF
Partisan Review published Quarterly at New York, N. Y. for October I, 1957.
1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and businea
IIlaIIqaI
are:
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Projects, Inc., 22 East 17th Street, New York
3
J
.N.
Y.;
Editors: William Phillips and Philip Rahv, 22 East 17th Street, New York 3, N. Y.; Manqilr
editor: None; Business manager: Hettie Cohen, 22 East 17th Street, New York 3, N . Y.
2. Tbe owner is:
(If
owned by a corporation, iu name and address must be stated and
alii
immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 percent.
more of total amount of stock.
If
not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses 01 doe
individual owners must be given.
If
owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm,
ill
name and address, as weD as that of each individual member, must be given.)
Foundation for Cultural Projects, Inc., 22 Eut 17th Street, New York 3, N. Y.; Non-stDcl,
non-profit, membership corporabon.
President: Allan D. Dowling, c/o Partisan Review, 22 East 17th Streeh New York 3, N. Y.;
Vice-President: William Phillips, 22 East 17th Street, New York 3••N.
Y.;
Secretary: Barbon
Greenfeld, c/o Partisan Review, 22 East 17th Street, New York 3, N. Y.
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bondholden~
mortgagees, and other security holden owning or holding 1
perCIII
or more of
total
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4. Paragraphs 2 and
:I
include, in case. where the .tockholder or security holder appears I11III
the
hooh
of the company as trwtee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the ......
or corporation for whom such trustee
is
acting;
also
the .tatemenU in the two paragraphs ...
th••
Wont ·, full knowledl!te and belief as
to
the circum.tance. and conditions under which ..
holders and security bolden who do not appear upon the books of the company as
trustees,
flaW
,tock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner.
Hettie Cohen, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th
day
of September 1957. David Cantor, Notary Public [or the State o[ New York ... Qualified in New
York
County~
No. 31-0555200, Cert. filed with County Clerk, New York, l.iommission
&piN
March 3D,
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