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Pollock Lee Pollock 3 One morning before we were marrked Sandy knowkced on my door and asked "Did Jackson spend the night here last night?" I answered "No. Why?" "Because he's in Bellevue Hospital and our mother has arrived to New York. Will you go with me and get him?" We went and there he was in the Bellevue Ward. He looked awful. He had been drinking for days. I said to him "Is this the best hotel you can find?" At Sandy's suggestion I took him back to my place and fed him milk and eggs to be in shape for dinner that night with Mother. We went. together. It was my first meeting with Mother. I was overpowered with her cooking, I had never seen such a spread as she put on. She had cooked all the dinner, baked the bread, the abundance of it was fabulous. I thought Mama was a peach. Later I said to Jackson "You're off your rocker, she's sweet, nice." It took a long time for me to realize how difficult she was. You see, at that time I never connected the episode of Jackson's drinking with his mother's arrival. And around then Mother moved out to Connecticut with Bandy and his family so we didn't really see that much of her. I hadn't yet seen anything of the hard female. When we were married Jackson wanted a church wedding; not me. He wanted it and he had it. Jackson's mother was anti-religious, that's a fact. Violently anti-religious. I felt that Jackson, from many things he did, felt a great loss there. He was tending more and more to religion. I felt that went back to his mother's lack of it. You know in high school he used to listen to Krishnamurta's lectures. If I conjure up the gentle part of Jackson, that was one part. But there was the other part, the other extreme, the violent part. Both of them existed in extrememes. But Jackson's violence was all verbal. There never was any physical violence. He would just use more 4-letter words than usual. Or he would take it out on the furniture. The night that he
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I believe the second Sandy reads Bandy instead.
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