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Later I found out that she had a boy friend and I even saw him at the Art Institute. A big tall laid-back guy, and so it was then that I realized what she liked, and it wasn't like me. I met her in the Art Institute library one time, a narrow room decked out with couches, easy chairs, big art books on wall shelves, and large plate glass windows with views of the bay, Alcatraz, Angel Island and Sausalito. I told her that I had been in love with her. I could say that now that it was an impossibility. Felt good to tell her.
I did not have a personal audience with Nyland. I thought I might but - and Wherebe did not get his money from Nyland. But the upshot was that I could skip the initiation steps and go straight to full membership. I had already developed some of Gurjieffs techniques, especially the 'watcher' concept on my own even before leaving Illinois. So apparently they were all duly impressed. But my feeling at the time was I did not want to get involved in anybody's system. Or maybe
it was I became suspicion of the high-horse. Didn't like the idea that I was not
evolved enough to speak to the master. Same old class system.
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