LeGrand Cirque Psyche Presents:
The 20TH Century Tuesday of a Noman,
The Cover

(Pages 21 - 24 were frist published by L'Association, Paris, 1999 in Lapin #24)
(Pages 9 - 29 were published by Blurred Books, NYC, 2005 in Blurred Vision#1)

Synopsis: Random moments, swept up out of the dark, flayed and living by the skin of their obsessions. A few eclectic moments steeping in their own juice, strung together like a charm … says Toc. Or just a typical displaced artist living at the end of the twentieth century.

Introduction Part 1

"To whom it may concern" -The Vonnegut Prayer

I met Toc Fetch in the spring of 1996. I was on sabbatical in the small art-colony town of Woodstock in the state of New York, USA. It is a quiet town that nestles in the beautiful wooded foothills of the Catskill Mountains. The local people are surprisingly intelligent, eccentric, and private, it is a place I find conducive to my writing.
I am in the habit of taking a walk in the early mornings. In the peace and early quiet of the day, with the air fresh and cool from the night, my thoughts find their true directions. After my walk I would return to my cabin to write through the morning hours. Most mornings on my walk, I would cross paths with the man I came to know as Toc Fetch.
What first drew my attention to him was one side of a conversation I overheard on the other side of a wall of blooming lilac. It seemed to be a ranting disparagement between two voices, high and low. When I rounded the corner I found myself face to face alone with Toc Fetch, who without the customary shyness of strangers, (as if I had been all along party to his conversation), he asked me if I had ever "studied to be innocent". To which I replied, that I found his remark to be "Nearly a contradiction." He leaned into my personal space and studied my face like a mirror. A look which, I knew, weighed my words and their conscious inflections against my body's subconscious expressions, a brief but thorough gestalt from a piercing intuition. "Nearly", he asked, "nearly, as in; very difficult?" I think the fact that I laughed, and then we laughed, at his reply, began our friendship.

Introduction Part 2 contintued on next page