Invision

Manipulation here had to be by timing, when a particular job opening became available, of which there is no way I could have consciously known, but which determined my future in the army and perhaps for life. At the time I did not pay much attention. After that my changes in duty assignment would seem almost certainly random. A friend of mine from Illinois married a woman and moved to the outer reaches of Los Angeles. They came to visit me when I was in the Haight, only I had moved. I didn't leave a forwarding address. It was more or less unconscious, but in this and other cases I was somehow worried about controls from the past.

There were two instances where people had affected my life in a minor and a major way. One was the guy I met on the bus on my way from Athens to the ferry that I took to Italy, who knew an old friend of mine from Illinois. But his only influence was the suggestion that I tour Europe on a scooter as opposed to a motorcycle. The other was the guy I met in the Haight who I let sleep at my place and who turned me on to the pottery shop at Winfield. That was a definite life changing meeting, but to whose interest it would be, would seem only my own.

My friend from Illinois, his name was Mayhew. His brother had been the president of a car customizing club back in Illinois. Both he and Matthew had real nice customized cars. Think Mayhew had something like a '47 Plymouth coup. I maybe met his brother once. He was older. Mayhew's car was very rounded with all the chrome removed, skirts and tear-drop spotlights.

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