Research Literature

What makes time fly? Can time “drag”? Three short stories illustrate how the mind perceives time under various circumstances. Anger, frustration, love, murder, and apprehension distort perceptions of time in the first story entitled "A Timely Crack". The second story, "Brainstorm", illustrates how terror, ignorance, apprehension, and blackmail may distort the experience of time. Long effort and ultimate failure alter the perception of time in "Autobiography of a Stillborn Soul", the third story.

Part three of the story of Doctor Sheila Bennet and her experimental drug that turned herself and over a hundred college coeds into supremely well endowed phallic women! After losing her professorship at Wentford U., Sheila decides to go public. Going public is only half her problem. If she wants to put her mutagenic drug into production, she'll need the help of an old flame, a big shot in the pharmaceutical industry. She'll have to do some pretty hard convincing with him as well, and she just might discover along the way that she's not quite as purely lesbian as she thought!

Cv/VAR 47 documents an interview with the the celebrated sculptor Arman (1928-2005), exploring his early connections with Yves Klein, Rosicrucianism, and the development of auto-formed sculptures of collected objects.

An interview with the author J. P. Donleavy, recorded in 1989 on the occasion of his exhibition at Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery, Chelsea. He describes his formative experience of Dublin, with exhibitions there in 1948, '50, and '51, the catalogue manifestos, for these were his first published writings, leading to work on his first renowned novel, The Ginger Man.