Part II:  Freeze-Up

the infinitely expanding mountain of commentating and punditing called ‘first attempt’

I.  Introduction to the ‘first attempt’

94.  the Lorenzos suffered all winter without a word

95.  but years later the ‘Sunday School pundits’ objected to ‘this prosaic way’ the Lorenzos had of referring to their son’s remaking year

96.  Sammy Martinez’ super-grave warnings to readers of ‘first attempt’

II.  Mortimer in Fort Smith:  fear of practically everything

97.  the ‘second encounter of M & J’ was still a live event

98.  mj lorenzo’s official psychiatric history was (later) made public

99.  how pundits in later years studied mj’s prior mental health history to estimate possible present danger ‘now’ i.e. during the winter of ’70-‘71

100.  could more cracked-up mj’s be out there wandering about? the pundits wondered

101.  could mj lorenzo be an avatar? the pundits wanted to know and (though it made their sanity seem questionable) they interviewed mj’s parents for clues to the answer

102.  pundits discovered that the one at risk from Crack-Up or fragility was (and always would be) ‘Mortimer’ not ‘Jack’

103.  and so they disqualified Mortimer (after the fact; and too late) from practicing psychiatry on his own mj lorenzo self

104.  Mortimer’s second-encounter writing in late November 1970 reflected his sense of impending disintegration; and pundits explained how and why

105.  leftist political pundits gained hope from Jack’s devastating impact upon Mortimer in Fort Smith

106.  naturally Mortimer chose the rock of thought over the whirlpool of life

107.  how pundits finally, years later, woke up to The Remaking’s world of Native American myth

108.  and how Mortimer vowed to leave Fort Smith and find peace and quiet in Fort Chipewyan

III.  Mortimer in Fort Chipewyan:  fear of losing control

109.  Mortimer by thinking very hard at Fort Chipewyan finally remembered that the universal remedy for painful duality had always lain right in his knapsack in one of Carl Jung’s heavy tomes

110.  but: Mortimer, having so quickly found a cure in Jung, just as quickly declined to avail himself of it

111.  how handwriting-on-the-wall pundits, much later, were among the first to finally get The Remaking; and how they won a much-deserved MOISTR prize for it

IV.  Mortimer in Fort Chipewyan:  fear of the body

112.  but the Lorenzos found it much easier to skip than to look at Mortimer’s hard thinking as displayed in the ‘first attempt’

113.  the startle reaction to sex as demonstrated by a world famous couple

114.  the tenth point at the history lecture at Penn

115.  the rest of the history lecture at Penn

116.  how Dr. Lorenzo – years later - cut the protective skin right off the extreme U.S.A. 'Christian Right' with surgically sharp eagle-eye perceptivity

117.  a few more famous examples of the startle reaction to sex

118.  one of the very few ways the ‘leftist’ pundits understood ‘the right’ sooner than they understood themselves

119.  and how the ‘early Remaking pundits’ reminded everyone of all they had done for their hero

V:  Mortimer in Fort Chipewyan:  fear of the stranger

120.  how Mortimer’s bi-bodihood drove the western world crazy

121.  instead of just uniting with Jack, Mortimer turned him into The Incomprehensible and then tried to control (from a distance of course) what he could not comprehend

122.  the little title-less piece

123.  how pundits used The Remaking for diagnosing the progress of political reconciliation to date all over the planet

124.  how they proposed deliberately fostering political reconciliation worldwide by following the outline of The Remaking

125.  and how pundits used The Remaking for predicting the future course of local, national and planetary reconciliation

126.  how mj lorenzo’s The Remaking revealed to pundits the political usefulness of acting crazy

127.  how pundits used The Remaking for first imagining potential discoveries in science and then making them

VI.  Mortimer in Fort Chipewyan:  fear of the friend

128.  how Mortimer discovered and studied a little-recognized kind of reconciliation already present in nature since the beginning of time; and how he called it ‘professional friendship’ or ‘professionalfriend – ship’

129.  cold thinking squared:  Mortimer’s style of thinking 

130.  lonely Mortimer’s lengthy but not necessarily killer-boring treatise on ‘professionalfriend – ship’ or ‘professional friendship’

131.  how Mortimer in the end raised the art of self-delusion to heights too dizzying to be surmountable

VII.  Mortimer in Fort Chipewyan:  fear of higher power

132.  yea though it drive the world crazy and mayhap SO THAT it would, even: bi-bodihood was still Mortimer’s most favorite conundrum

133.  how Mortimer attempted to comprehend his bi-bodihood via the concept of the Holy Trinity only to feel uncomfortable as God the Word

134.  how Mortimer tried to solve the problem of his bi-bodihood by toying with conceptual frameworks resembling those which theology systems had used traditionally for comprehending the Christian mass:  only to resent feeling transubstantiated

VIII.  How Dr. Lorenzo tried later to defend the ‘first attempt’ and failed

135.  how Sammy Martinez, the pundits’ pundit and the commentators’ commentator, discovered ‘the high schoolers’

136.  how Dr. Lorenzo met with the high schoolers and attempted nobly to defend his universally maligned endless dry analyses in the ‘first attempt’

137.  how the Dr. likened his Remaking word-mandala to The Holy Bible

138.  how pundits responded to nearly universal complaints that the unpopular ‘first attempt’ was ‘intolerable and impossible’

139.  how Dr. Lorenzo, completely done-in by his own wacky brainchild, The Remaking, finally one day let Sammy ‘remake The Remaking’

second attempt at a meeting

140.  how whacked-out pundits survived a ‘Fort Smith Chronology’ workshop

141.  the old man on the island

142.  “I’m living with an old Indian in northern Canada”

143.  the first part of the story Chipewyan told

144.  excellent moral fare

third attempt

145.  finally Mortimer was deemed to be the problem; but who was doing the deeming?

146.  where was Jack? what had happened to Jack?

147.  how Mortimer glorified reason

148.  how Mortimer used reason to analyze savior complexes and impotencies

149.  how Mortimer used the universally hated LISTS to answer his number one question

150.  but what WAS the number one question? it was:  what is the number one problem?

151.  how Mortimer defined the number one problem as hyperpolarization

152.  how Mortimer analyzed hyperpolarization as described in scholarly works by Sartre, McLuhan and Kierkegaard

153.  Mortimer’s favorite sage of all, however, was always Carl Jung

154.  and Jung said hyperpolarization was the fault of Western Civilization, not of Mortimer

155.  Jung’s Symbols of Transformation received Mortimer’s first Ft. Chipewyan prize maybe partly because it got Mortimer off the hook

156.  meanwhile Mortimer found other tricks for forgetting Jack, such as describing his own Mortimer depression in detail

157.  how Mortimer got interpreted (later) by the ‘rooster pundits’

158.  and how everybody seemed to have something to say about broken backs

the nearly ruinous fourth attempt

I.  Reactions of experts to ‘the fourth attempt’

159.  there was an aspect of The Remaking that embarrassed supporters

160.  a few of the 'extremely unusual' things mj lorenzo did 

161.  another embarrassing aspect of The Remaking were the ‘rifts’ in the story line

162.  the infamous ‘rift’ in the ‘fourth attempt’

163.  the missing explanation for the big rift

164.  how the pundits chided the high schoolers for wanting ‘explanations’

165.  Dr. Lorenzo’s position on ‘bi-bodihood’ down through the years

II.  The ‘fourth attempt’ itself

166.  a new kind of upset for the Lorenzos: Mortimer’s 'new book’

167.  a new kind of son?

168.  how the Lorenzos were overjoyed with the ‘new book’ but not for long

169.  how the world condemned Mortimer’s roller coaster technique

170.  how Mortimer pushed his roller coaster technique on readers

171.  why the Lorenzos were finally ecstatic

172.  and how Dr. Lorenzo later explained Mortimer’s getting away with it

173.  how the Lorenzos accepted ‘punishment’ for their fun

174.  and at the end of the wildly up and down ride the biggest shock of all

175.  and how, at long last, the Lorenzos were thoroughly crushed; furious; and really fed up for the very first time

III.  Should The Remaking have ended ‘right here’?

176.  the universal reaction of letdown after reading the ‘fourth attempt’

177.  how even Mortimer was puzzled by so much success

178.  the banana school of punditry

179.  how Mortimer defended Dlune against those who would accuse her of ’ruining his book’

180.  how Mortimer likened The Remaking to The Bible

181.  modern Western civilization’s problem with sacred texts according to Dr. Lorenzo

182.  the Dr.’s Oregon lecture

183.  an ‘experimental sacred text’ perfect for every human being would have to be one rooted in Sacred Nature

184.  final thoughts on ‘the fourth attempt’

fifth attempt

185.  the huge and perennial levity versus gravity controversy

186.  Jo Lorenzo’s unusual problem with the ‘fifth attempt’

187.  even Rev Lorenzo could laugh at his own extremist Protestant religion but only when given the perfect place, time and company

188.  the memorable Yale workshop on The Meaning of the ‘fifth attempt’

189.  Dr. Lorenzo on the proper interpretation

190.  the views of mainstream pundits and ‘sacred pun ditzies’

191.  Petitot’s Story of Two Brothers cont’d and his infamous introduction to the volume of northern tales

192.  Petitot’s scabrous assessment of the northwestern tribes

193.  Mortimer Lorenzo’s review of Petitot’s ‘scholar’-‘ship’

194.  how Mortimer’s review got transformed into ’something else’ as pundits said

195.  the ‘sixteen points’ made by the ‘fifth attempt’

196.  the four major schools of Remaking pundit-wizardry as of 2005

197.  the priesthood of all believers

198.  and finally: why Jo Lorenzo laughed for the rest of her life at the expression mercy seat in the ‘fifth attempt’

sixth attempt

199.  how the ‘sixth attempt’ remained unnoticed for years

200.  the day the world’s foremost Remaking pundit Sammy Martinez first met mj lorenzo

201.  and how the ‘early Remaking pundits’ managed to unearth mj lorenzo despite every obstacle, including Sammy Martinez himself

202.  exactly how the original version of mj lorenzo’s The Remaking got itself published the very first time

203.  how the 1980 first revision then came about

204.  first impressions of the ‘sixth attempt’ as recalled by early pundits

205.  how Dr. Lorenzo chatted about the ‘sixth attempt’ years after writing it

206.  the newspaper article about the Peace Corps training camp in the Poconos and the ‘hodge-podge’ or ‘collage’ section of The Remaking which the article helped inspire

207.  how a few pundits tried a little harder to comprehend the ‘sixth attempt’

208.  how pundits tried to guess Mortimer’s reason for featuring the Blackfoot tale Mink Woman in his Remaking:  guess 1:  to express fear of Dlune’s homesickness

209.  how Dr. Lorenzo agreed with ‘homesickness’ and added guess 2:  ‘to implant in the Western world via literature well worth absorbing an intimate detailed knowledge of non-Western literature and culture’

210.  how a Freudian psychiatry resident at The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia then offered a shocking guess 3:  that the tale of Mink Woman was meant to express Mortimer’s fear of sex; and how the resident analyzed mj lorenzo’s sexuality as revealed (or so he claimed) in the ‘sixth attempt’

211.  sexual inadequacy was the theme of the entire chapter ‘sixth attempt’ insisted this very outspoken pundit who shocked the world with his ideas and language

212.  earthly fallout from the psychiatry resident’s nuclear website

213.  how Dr. Lorenzo responded to the atomic bomb of a suggestion that The Remaking properly interpreted revealed an unspoken conviction of his that Western civilization – and especially a certain identifiable part of that Western world – was, always had been and still was (and/or feared itself to be) sexually inadequate

214.  but the Dr.’s final word on the ‘sixth attempt’ was silence

215.  how one group of pundits attempted to force this issue to a logical conclusion despite years of interference from their hero mj lorenzo

216.  how another group defended their hero’s sexuality as unquestionably manly

217.  and in sum therefore: a sensible non-extremist assessment of mj lorenzo’s sexual health around the time of late April 1971

seventh attempt  (3rd and last encounter of M & J)

218.  by spring of 1971 Mortimer was suffering persistent premonition of imminent death

219.  how Mortimer – awaiting his annihilation – theorized about imminent annihilation

220.  and compared mj lorenzo with Harlequin looking for some hint as to the exact likely nature of his own impending death

221.  and theorized about what might have been had he been nicer to Jack

222.  and compared himself with his own revolutionary sixties generation looking for more hints as to the exact likely nature of his upcoming death

223.  how Mortimer turned to Nietzsche seeking still more comprehension of why his country and world and self had HAD to become so self-destructively and maybe even suicidally hyperpolarized

224.  how understanding Nietzsche removed a last burden of guilt from Mortimer’s mental shoulders minutes before his expected death

225.  how Mortimer – encouraged by Nietzsche and with only seconds to live – tried (quick!) to reunite mj’s mind and body via poetry

226.  how Mortimer ‘mind-balleted’ for Jack hoping to impress him with mind talent and convince him that his (Mortimer’s) life was worth saving and how Mortimer knew nothing of what he mind-balleted, i.e., life

227.  how depression told Mortimer (incorrectly) that Dlune did not love him

228.  and how Mortimer – whiling away his last seconds before annihilation – admired Nietzsche’s observations on folk music

229.  and created one last LIST! (pundits moaned) so as to not deny the poor pitiful world all his valuable learning after his annihilation

230.  suddenly Mortimer remembered that he had forgotten that he – Mortimer – had always been an ass

231.  and how at last (!) mj lorenzo’s two pathetic split-off halves tangled at close quarters

232.  finally: the Lorenzo son looked forward to Break-Up with new hope and tried to describe in a few exciting poetic lines the huge difference between a Break-up and a Crack-Up