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• What goes on in the mind of the lunatic? An ex-asylum pallent takes a controversial view of madness in a startling new book

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become preternaturally acute and pleasurable; there wonderful selise of physical well-being, and the patient

The man who talked with devils

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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1951.

THE CHINA MAIL,

Runaway husband jailed for 17 years HE THREW BOMB AT HIS WIFE

DURBAN.

ATM British Crossword Puzzle

On trying to blow up his wife with home-made capable of great phy-hombs, Jasper Martin Coetzee has been sentenced to 12

17 years' hard labour,

He was arrested in Lou- don seven months ago and escorted to Durban for trial.

Reiss and stayed with "a very nice Polish family about a quar-

Bical endurance.

Added to this, there is a transcendent feel- ing of harmony with nature, with the unt verse and with God, together with impres- Coetzee, aged, 44. "Fuld the South Blom of aplitual re- trouble with his 33-year-old travelled 8,000 miles to gelicet by MARGARET LANE velation clearly akin English-born wife, Elleen, start- bi

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the

best really of the gods,

whet she brought the to those of the greated mystics

and to the mother. Mrs Minnie Claydon, to WISDOM, MADNESS AND anaesthetic revelation" Induced South Africa.

FOLLY. John Custance, by certain drugs,

was To parity his wife-the the In Mr Custance's cust basted 248 maniac phase has (Gollancz,

for always impered, he sald periods as long as six months at be bought her a diamond ring; time he gave her pages.

EOPLE in many ages a lime, and the world he then another

£15,000. Pave believed that

a "univers experiences is lunatic and the saint are akin, that the fool has special wisdom and is close to God. It is an idea not much in fashion nowadays, so that it is startling open a book which shows in an entirely original and objective manner the truth of this ancient view.

But said this former Johan- apgels and devils that he 52nesburg advertising agent, she and converses with, while

punched, and

to

The author of Windom, Mad. ness and Fully describes himself as "a very ordinary lunatie."

He has several times been certified us insane, and the book

written

has been

the

scratched, bit.

released uneaselaus mind is in pinched him. She hit him on the control, have led him to believhead with a vare and stabbed that this form of insanity is his pillow with a knife. regression to a more primitive- stage of man's evolution, when such things were acerpted.

universally

ONE EXPLODED

ter of a mile from the King."

Scotland Yard caught - him. and he was handed over 10 Malcan police, who

As they were taking him from Cape Town la Johannesburg hel jumped from the train and was captured hitch-hiking..

THE SECOND FAILED

While he was in London his wile rezcled a parcel. I rinok- ed, but three sticks of galignite and ene of dynamite in 1: "fail- ed to exploda.

The

police believe the

Coetzee, a wartime fier, left this pares with a woman friend wach he went to London, and that the woman posted it to his wife.

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ACROSS

1 Failure (4).

4 Take for granted (7).

Vex (4)

Exact bird 14).

10 Narrative (7) 11 Sep (4).

12 Secure (4). 14 Absorb (T).

Farelnation (5).

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The prosecution raid Coetzee throw a home-made bomb into a Duban lat where his wife, mother-in-low, another woman and her child were sitting.

His mother-in-law red to douse the bomb with water.

Stephes the judge: "Yes, the blew off most of her right hanit, entenere will sun consecutive-

Coetzee

He ly." arrested. WH3

And, as a postscript, the Jumped ball and fled to London. maker of home-made bombs There, according to a letter he was gauled a further month for was known ar John jumping elf the ruin,

Mr Justlee Show sentence: him

2 ten years for bomb 20 rehire No. 1, and seven years for No. 2. Coetzen asked: “Does this memo Fll have to spend 17 years in gaul"

Geds and devils, magie and

Only the myth lie buried in the uncon

hava scious of us all, but

the lunatic inystic and acress to these levels. At the depths of helgats, he believe forms of wladom and truth are in varicos perceived which are forever! mental hospitals. sometimes hidden from the Sane and wrote, he even in the "refractory ward."

But ordinary lunatie, if there

The sense of universal lave, is such thing, he certainly is freedon, and

chen:ss with nan of intelligence not. He is

creation which he enjoys during which and education who writes tremely well, with a detachment the manlar period, and

sanest may be imagined as the state of

and candour which the author migh envy.

He is

ex-

civilised consciousness.

mon before the Fall, is horribly reversed during the depressive phase. Here, in universe horror" through which he may in despai fcr grepe

many

mantac-depressive: #

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that is to say, he suffers frein months, man's solitariness, that form of insanity which soparation from God, the e awings like a pendulum from tainty of his in and eventual the exaltations of acute mania to damnation, condemn him to

complementary depressive subjective hell d:am which there phase; and he has written this is no escape. book as a history and analysis

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of his mind's adventures.

Those adventures illuminating that i doubt if any

read this back without finding his whole attitude fo "madness" changed.

The

arresting thing ast about the book is the appar- ently closs resemblance between the experiences of neute un and those of poetical and reli- glous mystics.

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Though he is now dircharged 19 cured, the author of this remarkable book refuses to dis- credit the experiences and s

rons of his abnorma

periods.

The unenvelous, I believts. is not the primitive cesspit we have been taught to think, on which it is necessary pelamp

very

Rother he strong lid. stes us a source of knowledge last to Jung and intuitions If it were not so "mad" -

civilized man-as lost to him us

sinell- that is to say, socially unaccep his primitive sense of toble und dangerous the and believes that its messages, maniac phase is state we carefully etened to and faith-

intapreted. Sense impres- fully might all envy.

give sions are abnormally heightened; guidance, Right, hearing, taste and smell balance to the personality.

can

and

nourishment

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT... YOU WERE

-THIS DREAM

BALLET DANCING AND THREW A ROSE TO A MAN-

MEANS:

a dream is To dance with someone in symbolic of a desire to share one's emotional life with that person or with someone.

To dance solo is to live one's emotional life apart; perhaps to derive emotional satisfaction from a parade of one's personality and charm in front of others, rather than from any participa- tion in their collective living.

Throwing a rose to a man invites him to share your amotional life; a flower symbolises a

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"YOU SHOULD USE MY-SYSTEM. NOW I REDUCED JUST BY. EATING

ETC,

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Vehicles (3).

Interfere with (7). instrument 15.

Church 17.

Cultivate (43.

Press (4).

Offspring (4),

Abanduns (7).

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Bird 14).

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accessory 10).

2 Bathroom

3

Due 16).

Locality (5).

Not lot. past (0).

6 Track 5).

7 Repair (5).

19 Dross (4)..

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Tumble (4).

15 Carousel, (4),

16 Of sound inind (4).

10 Bear witness (0).

20 Refer (0).

21 Source (0).

23 Suppose (5).

26 Ancestors (3),

24 Follow (5).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD crois: 1 Endear, 5 Badge. B Tepld, 8 Bishop, 10 Shoot, i Melee. 12 Acre, 13 Cras, 18 Elated, 18 Craps, 20 Laher, 23 Tenet. 29 Deer, 22 Gals, 23 Angle, 25 Forge, 26 Iclela, 27 Sundry. Dawn: 1 Embraced, 2 Distract. 1 Aloin, 4 Repeals. Bisects. Adhere, 7 Glows, 14 Advances, 13 Strategy, 10 Earnest, 17 Applies. 10 League, 21 Elupe, 24 Ecru.

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OR THAT YOU WERE WALTZING WITH A HANDSOME CAVALIER IN A HUGE ROSE GARDEN AND YOU WERE BOTH DRESSED IN CLOTHES OF THE LAST CENTURY ?

shared spiritual and emotional experience rather than a physical one.

The invitation is accepted and the scene is translated to idyllic surroundings; to an earthly Į paradise, a péacatul old-fashioned rhythm, a

haven of quict security.

Your mind is dwelling on the idea of a perfect love that will lead you to happiness; you have already half-chosen your most likely partner.

This is a dream of premonition that you will fall in love; in so far as your premonition is likely to be fulfilled, it is a prophetic dream.

Grim Fairy Tales

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

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He, takes extra pride in his snapshots because he develops

and prints them himself.

DEVELOPING YOUR OWN PICTURES

Wherever

HAVE discussed In

you these laundry room.

should articles, the many ways in work, however, you

with have access to a basin. which you can improve your

running water where chemicals picture taking. But I often

can be mixed and then discard- wonder how many of you have ed after the night's work is tried developing and prining the finished. pictures you take. If you have never delved into this fascinal- ing work, you are missing one of the greatest thrills in photo- graphy.

Developing and printing be remarkably easy when

use

The handy Instruction book included in the feit will show you,

step by step, how to de- velop your film. Processing 裁

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the

single roll takes perhaps minutes from developer to can axing solution, which "sets" the After a final rinse, the image. Alms are hung up to dry,

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kits

ong of the small available today." These kits. 'Perhaps the next night you although costing only a few will want to print your pic-

Again the steps are' dollars, contain all the equip- luces.

simple. After the paper A ment needed-a printing box, placed in contact with the chemicals for developing alm negative on the printing and paper. troys, a safelight, and exposed for a few seconds, tumbler thermometer, clips the image is developed, rinsed, overn- and the paper placed on a stal everything to carry the

surface to dry. tlon from the undeveloped roll

af film to the finished print.

box

The greatest thrift in develop- ing and printing is watching a All you have to provide is a secne you have taken appear completely darkened

have meets

rear.

on a blank sheet of paper. It's found that the kitchen really a magical operation, and this requirement. At you are the magician. Yet with blankels over the all its magical properties, mak- night. hang

ing your own pictures is windows to shut out any stray imple you will wonder light. Or if the kitchen is not you have never tried handy. you can use the bath- basement

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or even

the

KEMP STARRETT

AND DO YOU, MARTHA,·

"PROMISE TO "LOVE",

HONOR AND OBEY...

DO

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why before.

John van Guilder

PLAYED OUT... PLAYING: [CAMASTA:ALL· AFTERNOON.

"THIS WON'T HURT

A BIT"

"WE'LL HAVE

TO GO OUT.

FOR DINNER:

VA ALL

REY, JES 'MEMBERED-GOT "POINTMENT "IN" "TEN"

“HOUSE *** AUNUTES: PAY CLEATING COECK FIX

LATER

IN A FEW YEARS' THEY'LL BE WORŢI A FORTUNE... WONDERFUL

INVESTMENT....

WHILE WAITING FOR. THIS FAIRY TALE TO

COME TRUE

WHAT DOES ONE DO VITA THE STUFF?

WE SUGGEST INDING-

́IT IN A NICE, DARK, DANK DINGEON...

Serik

HE WON'T KNOW IT'S A FAIRY TALL FOR ALL OF TWO DAYS.

"SHERT'N'Y NOT... NEVER 'RINK WIEN 'A'RIVIN'.... [WAZE JESI GOIN'T

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