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at eoe& When the house -had’ been emptied people began to - ~reoeivesa notion about her acts; but answer had E registering no possibility of going beyond symbol, In the last dress:that she wore, and with nothing in her hands, . she -had walked in the -long hung cloth colors :of earth and sun and moon down through the high sand * , to the lifeguard tower above the ‘sea;, = Now on the arrival of Jaqueline and Animal Maria was at her seventh day of fasting and meditation; and for this day Hart Street had been waiting, for ~ during the morning of her first day under the tower, with no lifequard at all, young Maria had softly spoken to the teenaged girls: in wonder and psyche= deliécwillingness te. the wish long goneto seed, "in seven daya I shall give birth under this sky to Jesus: of Los Angeles." . Through the seven days therehad been tributes of flowers, and offers of fruit. Tourists had passed by , Maria's remaining still, Some eyes had attempted to . penetrate ‘her world with scorn. Others were sensitive’ | to living out the flash into the dream. Low or high 2 | state of reaction seemed to mean little -to Maria, for the -calimess of her forehead’ showed’ that her eyes re- Ss mained the same under lids or opened to. the sun or . SE tele ‘ moon, or weighty sumer§glimpses of Los Angeles star= , light over the beamed out congested confussion of el= | |