Lion; Tiger, Bear | 215 Im the brains, shes the blunt instrument. Simple-dimple, zippedy-do. Bea kicked sand. Spoken like a true manic-depressive infantile infant. Fairly thin line between love and hate, I might add. Alice leaned to Bea. Give us a kiss. A half-kiss only. For a half-wit. Bea sighed heavily. You have me there. In Norway I was deemed a half-goddess only by Pekke and Olaf when my river horse bucked F-i-v-e, interrupted Bernie. He Principle of Rhythm. Everything has its tidesyou should see the Bay of Fundy in Canada, forty-foot tides, and you can just pick up the fish to fry. All things rise and fall, like the stock market. The pendulum swing manifests in everything. Rhythm compensates. Rome rose and fell, Napoleons empire too. Everything changes, everything ebbs and flows. The deal is you should put the gearshift in neutral and wait before you shift up or down; this way you can modulate your passionate emotions and remain calm and collected in the heat of battle. Keep to the middle path. Through the heightened awareness of this axiom, one can experience transcendental states of consciousness to rise above the swung of the pendulum. In other words, keep a cool head and dont let the tail wag the dog. Bea mumbled: I tend to blip the throttle before changing gears… Six, said Alice loudly. The Principle of Cause and Effect. Nothing merely happens for no reason at all. Nothing happens by chance or without explanation, unless one believes the two-bit, hapenny Hollywood psychics in the gossip rags. Anyway, no escape from this one. Cement. If one becomes the cause, you dont suffer as someone who just reacts to circumstances. All that is done will be undone, or.. .something akin to that. Honestly, Ive no idea what this one really means. Bea said: I have a sizzling suspicion that I quick-draw react too much to circumstances myself, but in my defense, most of those insane circumstances are hell on wheels. By the way, Doll, I want my latest Confidential and Modern Screen back, and sans lipstick stains. Not finished. The Eight Women Clark Gable Cant Do Without article jibes with the one in Silver Screen. Before he signed up with the Air Corps, he and Barbara Thats just hype. Bubblehead Stanwyck is out, super-smart Heddy Lamarr is in, shes a gifted scientist, and that slob loves an egghead brunette. The only real truth is Thats quite enough, said Bernie. Hollywood aside, lets apply Cause and Effect