1 EVE’s Lake Sebago Hiatus from EVE — A Semiotic Novel VOLUME TWO
Three years have passed. Eve is nearing the age of 40 and Adam is 18 years younger than she. They have continued their major work of trying to state their philosophy in an orderly way. Eve has decided to leave her home in Tennessee for a visit to a place in New Hampshire that was once important to her. She wanted to get back into a song-writing groove and she needed to consider her future with Adam.
Eve stretches and feels the old feeling. Camp O-AT-KA is closed. The kids have gone home. Eve was first here in her junior year at Wellesley. She had organized a conference and had a conversion that shook her to her present state, though she did not know that fully then. It was a long story, but she knew by the end that her universal perspective was beyond intellect.
She could not be part of anything and remain a sign of everything. The solution lay within her. Yet it could yield up no organization or political label or anything other than the all. So then what?
She was alone now. There were people about but she felt peaceful and magically lifted.
She thought about Adam and knew they would not marry. They would remain lovers and unified in all ways.
Adam would accept that. He would have to of course. He knew when she left that decision was on her dance card. The world was moving in the right direction, even to the point of necessary convulsions in the body of its dying past
Their’s was a major decision. It would impact the future. From now on, having children would be almost entirely a matter of choice. Men would have as effective means of contraception as women. Abuse would fall to psychosynthesis. Oligarchy would fall to fairness.
Marriage less necessary, as Jesus had surmised. Thing would be simpler. They would boil down to choices. There were myriad ways to live.
One might desire to see children as the charges of communities beyond what had been called the nuclear family.
Decisions like this were a recognition that the semiotic context, the universal context, could not be content with suppositions. To move on, there needed to be thought about the future and how that might play out. There were no laurels to rest on.
There were ramifications, actions and expressions based on conclusions. First, about what no longer worked. Violence no longer worked. Conscious harm could be nipped in the bud only if if people decided so.
Education needed to be redone.
Eve knew the tasks before her. She knew the very principles she lived for and on. She could be no more or less than one among the billions. To act with a different sense would thrust her back into the maw of the binary past.
The lake was peaceful. The sun was a mild companion today. There was at the center of existence the reality of miracle. Here was where she had first known that.
She knew it was right to be here. Now there were no boys running about. The Maine winter had not descended. She drank in peace. Her mind was present. She would somehow achieve what she intended.
There was continuity. There were not life stages.
