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      The paranoid creates the world he knows around him.
     
      It has order: this fits to that, and explains it.
      Everything I see is determined so, and it makes per-
      fect sense. Too perfect. My name, and my teacher's,
      has a significance complete and sufficient for the
      imagination, and so does every name and every action.
      Like a giant pun.
     
      The real act of creation will be when the paranoid
      gives life to all this.  Give it up, let it make no
      sense.  It doesn't matter that so-and-so shook your
      hand like this, stood stooping and muttered, polite.
     
     INTRANSFORMATION #3
     
     The Giant Pun.  The Giant Pun is an allegorical figure.
     He stands for Allegory.
     
     The Giant Pun strides over the land picking up trucks
     and cows and lifting the roofs off of houses. Pun is
     stupid, but powerful. He looks salaciously at the bride,
     grinning, to place her in his pocket with his string and
     change, to play with later.
     Just so he grasps the mind's desire.
     
      The Giant Pun says: "Allegory. Other-speaking.
      A representation of an obscure, complex or elusive
      sense by an apparent sense." It is the Giant's nature
      to seek to control and dominate the beautiful and
      delicate, massing it in his clumsy paw. "Ahh," he
      says, "I will call you Elusive. Playing away."
     
     Can it occur to the Giant that he himself, looked at
     in a certain way, may be beautiful? His sense is after
     all his own, however much he may embrace the world in it.