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Show Utahns Exist in Void, Union s Existentialiam R. N. Goldberger Typical would be the discussion in an elementary school in the United States: The geography teacher, Miss Frump, B.Sur nversj of Maine, now in her second year of teaching, thrusts a wooden pra at a flat map of the 50 states to 33 urchins who at the momeni rather fidgety. It should be said that geography to most of these urchins, wth exception of Antonio, is where home and all the neat shops are. i of doubt, a neat shop is where neat things are. Some being tor some not. The geographic context may be where a particu far , , Mary Jane dwells. Returning to the exception, Antonio, it is wn is period and other nefarious things in and around school. Men.- i a vf sneer at W strut Miss Frump, her spell interrupted by an interlude or J bus b. 'terribly rude' urchins whispering over the state of am11. BeaCD W continues to discuss how Florida is noted for missiles, mm alligators, and oranges thus appropriately called the OKA " & New York, noted for John Lindsay, pollution, and m 1 GIR called The Empire State.. Arkansas-Beverly Hillbillys, gait fe ernor Rockefeller, The Wonder State. Califorma-oven m The Psychedelic State. Utah nothing the Existential State, no Mjsi w r is really fidgety but maintain a silence which fools no one Frump. Irsc .s discus- Entei To focus on Utah, let us take the context of Miss NeWrYort sion on Utah as a base of reality. Ask one of the IN people 1932 p '(Continued on page 3) Land of Zion, An Alien State? sun now has set. Things are happening, hap-pening, baby, whether they be in SLC, Partoun, Hurracine, Provo. Just who would assume Utah to be a State of existentialism. Not the Philosophy Department, that is for sure. Texas, football, tornadoes, big girls Miss Frump drawls onward across the nation. piness in the western sky. It is that visual limit that the eye can perceive per-ceive in the West; the jet plane entered Utah. Utahns drive on selected routes waiting in endless lines of blinking lights for something to change rather than take a new way home. The finite people in an infinite land. Judge a Utahn by the way he drives and one wonders of purpose pur-pose in this world. If Fellini were to come to Utah he would find an alien state exists within these United States. The foreign American film to Americans Ameri-cans would emerge into existence as a result. Today little film making mak-ing is done down in the Red Rock country of Kanab where two bit westerns are made with one bit actors. The shepherd watches over his flock. Within this flock some watch the shepherd. Then some watch everything alluding to a theological essence in The Land of Zion. The '(Continued from page 2) about Utah and a reply is forth-: forth-: coming that "IT IS WEST." Something Some-thing else is added about a lake of salt and taffy, wide streets Atlantic City west is the derived conclusion of Utah. Naturally the Mormons are mentioned, yet little is known of the 'peculiar people' and most of what is known is not really true. The truth is that, in fact, Utah and Utahns are 'peculiar people' indeed. in-deed. Utah is a void of essence in a country on the go. Utah swings too, yet it is a secret swinger that realizes this. Being clandestine in nature, few swingers know this themselves. Comprehension of the existential aspects of Utah might be possible using a finite sum of time. For instance, in-stance, in five minutes a lot can happen (and does): A voyager catches the 3:20 jet from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. A ribbon of land eighty minutes min-utes long glides by. Just as the seat belt sign flashes on and the decent is being made to Salt Lake City, the 727 crosses over the Utah State line colored white by the Salt Flats. A quickie libation before be-fore well now just having touched down at Salt Lake Municipal Airport. Air-port. During this five minutes of flight, things have occurred. It is the isolation iso-lation of these particular things that concerns us. Note that there were a few souls wandering around the Deep Creek Mountains hauling gold out while hundreds of intellectuals intel-lectuals were attending classes in the Huddle . at the University of Utah. Anger was expressed in numerous accidents, c r u m p le d minds, severe frustration by bill collectors, despair of achievement lacking in people manifested by fear-driven letters to the editor. A roaming man and woman examine ex-amine the condition of aesthetics in selected shops then chase hap- |
