collective unconsciousif it ever was or is or shall be , whatever , it opened up and gobbled frank : a mind which had sought to broaden itselfhis dad an insomniac who read and read and read : flustering the househis mom with earmarked books , a hundred monthly journals stapled and clipped with notes ; scotch-taped : in the bathroom , the garage , living-family-dining-kitchen , any and allrooms : ideas on index cards , nutty , im embarrassed to have visitors , theyll think were nutty , not including herself in that weso frank had ground himself in the sweep of ideas and wrestled with his fathers favorite masochism : toynbees twelve volume , rise and fall of civilizationsbut he had avoided as much as he had immersed himself in ... likewise , in an unusual parallel , there was something , possibly only one thing ever , that his father had avoided : so it seems that it was possibly too much of a challenge to a devout practicing catholictoo much in this era of reform ... vatican ii ... john the xxiiis opening of vatican windowsmore than a window , now , a gape , a maw , a ... frank is hearing munchs screamhis mind flits to the incomprehensibility of all those medieval visions snared in bruegel , bosch and durereven dalis squishes and the slithering geometry , trigonometry of the cubists feels : it is reading which makes him feel , unnerves himeverything he believes jung has ever written he inhales , bolts down , chokes on like the first whiskey of youth : isaiahs burning coal on his lips ... then consuming freud , adler , maslow more , more into the death of god theologiansinto and across and around every used book store : jewish for kabbalah and mysticism , into masonry and alchemy ... ferreting out what he could from lectures on theosophy and madame blavatskyevery underground newspaper every countercultural flyer every unverifiable unmmeasurable undocumented under and over flying object of knowledge ... frank pushes himself to read tolerable latin , mumbling greek , key words in hebrewunconscious : frank is unconscious .