And Then the Cow Was Drownded

<p>A man with a difficult past Steven Lansky without a wife after a divorce that could not help any tells of his schizophrenia. Humorous and pathetic poignantly real he understands how mental health insurance saved him and childlike art became his passion. Steven invites criticism using the Gita to identify with as the warrior Arjuna takes on a personal significance while consuming pressure from a hallucinogenic nightmare in a House of the Rising Sun epic self-determinate haze. Bicycling and sailing rescues him. Tormented by relationships brotherly love even by bloody memories of an unfortunate incident and then an accidental spell in a far-off city from New Orleans to Boston to Memphis and the North Country whatever the setting the lush overwhelming calm pervades a taut emotive narration. Lovers women give heartfelt adoration but not enough to satisfy. This Bildungsroman moves through conscious memory as it progresses visually in a paradigm parallel to Irving Stone's biography of Vincent van Gogh whose art Lansky's resembles. His nom de plume or sobriquet Jack Acid precedes him like the famed immortal charioteer Krishna. Torrid sex and various characterizations inhibit his telling the story straight. The story dictated to a muse elevates artifice to art.</p>