| vii. princess mammoth it's hot inside. it's not the fireplace. hot in the cabin, with blizzard outisde on mammoth mountain, northern california. snowboarding offers solace, so eve remembers from her slide a bite earlier. "stop trying to act like jesus!" bestfriend sarah, childhood friend, yells, "you're a jew, dammit!" but eve knows herself no longer an estatic puppy, or even a paperdoll, for a princess, but born to be a social worker serving families in the ghetto; "you can't fix them!!..." : eve keeps cool : tells sarah to take a moment, just take a moment, to look at the fireplace. but only an enlightened witness simultaneously hears : blizzard, burning logs, another of seven cabin friends zapping the t.v. screen from global terrorism until a seinfeld rerun. when over studio laughter, and over nature's sunset, eve replies : "i dont know anything about jesus except that he was jewish, and that abraham was african." |