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It frames her as unpredictable yet fundamentally simple, creatively energetic while appearing profoundly lazy, and intensely human in both affection and disdain. The narrative acknowledges sorrow, loss, and pride wounded by exploitation, while highlighting her inability to handle happiness. Chapter One begins with her world in Rome, beginning with her baptism scene and the symbolic first disappointment of her name.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBirth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.  \nCHUANG TZU, 400 B.C.  \n(From The Wisdom of the Chinese by Brian Brown)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nShocking Life Contents Foreword Chapter One  \nChapter Two  \nChapter Three  \nChapter Four  \nChapter Five  \nChapter Six  \nChapter Seven  \nChapter Eight  \nChapter Nine  \nChapter Ten  \nChapter Eleven  \nChapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen  \nChapter Fourteen  \nChapter Fifteen  \nChapter Sixteen  \nChapter Seventeen  \nChapter Eighteen  \nChapter Nineteen  \nChapter Twenty  \nChapter Twenty-one Epilogue  \nThe Twelve Commandments for Women List of Illustrations  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nForeword  \nI merely know Schiap by hearsay. I have only seen her in a mirror. She is, for me, some kind of fifth dimension.  \nShe is unpredictable but, in reality, disarmingly simple. She is profoundly lazy but works furiously and rapidly. Her laughter and tears collide; on a job of work she is fun, soaring from despair to heavenly delight. She is generous and mean, for there are occasions when she would rather give away half her possessions than the handkerchief in her handbag.  \nIntensely human, she both despises and loves human beings: those whom she dislikes find themselves looked right through as if they were transparent.  \nSorrow and loss she readily accepts, but she does not know how to deal with happiness.  \nHer life has been a means to something else – an everlasting questionmark. Truly mystic, she believes in IT, but has not yet found out what IT is. She is now of concrete age, but in reality has never grown up. Believing tremendously in friendship, she expects too much of her friends:  \nsheer disappointment in their capacity to respond has often made her enemies. Flattery and small talk bore her, and she has never understood how anybody can consider life an achievement in itself.  \nIf she is charming she can also be the most hateful person in the world. She is aware of this but cannot help it.  \nPeople believe that she is a good business woman and not, perhaps, very tender in love. In fact, she is a very poor business woman, continually taken in – exploited – and few people have been so deeply hurt in their feelings or so cruelly wounded in their pride.  \nI have seen her in the mirror.  \nThen again there is a famous painting by Picasso. Her friends (oh, yes, she has many!) say that this picture is a portrait of her.  \nThere is a cage. Below it are some playing-cards on a green carpet. Inside the cage a poor, half-smothered white dove looks dejectedly at a brilliantly polished pink apple; outside the cage an angry black bird with flapping wings challenges the sky.  \nShe would not part with this painting for a fortune even if she were, through her supreme indifference to material values, reduced one day, asher mother predicted, to a crust of bread and some straw to sleep on in an empty room. The room would not be empty. The Picasso would be hanging on the wall!  \nBut let us hope that her mother ’s prediction will not come true.  \nAnd if it does, she will know that in spite of success, glamour, and despair, the only escape is in oneself, and nobody can take that away – it is stronger than jealousy, hardship, or oppression.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter One  \nSt Peter ’s Church and St Peter ’s Square, children of a mammoth brain and unique in the world, spread in a circle like the claws of an enormous crab or implacable octopus, or again with the tenderness of a mother whose long arms of colonnades are ready to take in all lost people, all souls that want tobe saved, with a power unchallenged on earth.  \nInto St Peter ’s at Rome one day came a small procession – a learnedlooking man with a grizzled beard, a sweet woman not so young, a girl often with markedly Roman features and long black plaits, and a nurse dressed like all the balias of Rome in voluminous skirts of various 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