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" PAINTING 70 MORNINGSIDE. I spent Columbia Commencement 1974 in the day room of the psychiatric ward of St.
Luke’s Hospital, staring balefully across at the sacral bulk of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on . That spring in a burst of manic fury I had completed my MA thesis on the Buddhist priest, Dōkyō, who seduced the Empress Shōtoku and tried to make himself Emperor of Japan in 769 AD. It was published in 1979 in Monumenta Nipponica, a musty academic journal edited by an elderly British Jesuit in . Amos Stoltzfus, Graduate Student. Amos descends the solid stone steps of the Divine on a rainy November morning.
Churchgoing for him has always been an awkward mix of duty, habit and pleasure. He reflects that attending services has become much more pleasurable since the church has begun ordaining women. To get a good look at the new Dean of the Cathedral he had actually come to the early service and claimed a spot in the front pew among the reverent older ladies and homeless fanatics.
It was worth it to get a close-up look at the elegant contours and striking profile of the perky young clergywoman. During the mercifully short homily he hung on every word, dreamily wondering in what European finishing school she had gotten that seductive accent, whether she tinted her hair, whether it was true that the prominence of the nose in the gentler sex was in direct proportion to the degree of sexual appetite. Amos estimates her age at about twenty-eight, certainly not above thirty. “Las cucarachas entran, pero no pueden salir”. Amos Stoltzfus, Amish Druid. G The Amish Druid Liberation Front arose out of a heretical Amish cult in the late 1960s centered around a young Amish powwow artist who left the faith to go and live on East 13th Street in New York City's East Village.
At the time East 13th Street between Avenues A and B was the center of a burgeoning Mennonite colony founded by the "I-W Boys" who had come to the city to do their alternate service at local hospitals. Soon they were joined by other Mennonite farmboys -- gays, hippies and nogoodnik rebels -- who found the strictures of Mennonite life in rural Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana altogether too binding and suffocating for comfort.
Rachel. "So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him: ‘Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.’ " Rachel curls up in the black leather armchair by the radiator in the dormer window and fiddles with the hashish pipe. She knows I dislike her habit of having a pipe before bedtime so she pretends to be somewhere else. She would go to another room, she says, but in my cramped fourth floor studio the only other room is the bathroom. Amos Stoltzfus, Graduate Student. 1968. August 1968 I am sitting in a storefront Mennonite church on Seventh Avenue in central Harlem, playing Blockhead with six-year-old Charles.
The red, blue and yellow wooden blocks feel misshapen in my hand, as I clumsily try to balance a flat rectangle on the round side of a cyclinder. I carefully remove my hand and slowly the whole construction slides into a heap of rubble. Charles laughs delightedly. Then he looks over at Bebop, my teenaged co-worker, who is fumbling with his shirt pocket. Bebop, Michael and I have spent our lunch hour smoking pot around the corner at Michael's mother's apartment on 147th Street.
Michael and Bebop have taken me under their wing, informing me that if I stick with them I'm gonna be so cool I'll be wearing alligator shoes. "I'm a girl watcher I'm a girl watcher Watching girls go by My, my, my" Bebop and Michael take a certain proprietary pride in me, introducing me around as a sort of exotic specimen. But I'm not much of a Mennonite. Vietnam. Vietnam.