Out of My Mind. This item is unavailable.Out of My Mind

On the surface these enigmatic mini essays appear to be merely amusing words games, but each one exposes and probes some of the many layers human nature encounters in the pursuit of self-knowledge. The repetitive phrasing is deliberate to allow no escape from uncomfortable insights. Each word is verified for its meaning and only secondarily is allowed to facilitate the pattern of repetition. A readership, sensitive to its own foibles, might recognize in this genre an alternative aid to introspection. These meditations need a reader's active participation. Their fascination lies in the challenge to listen attentively, while their tone of self-mockery releases tension through laughter. - Anonymous

Pila Hall was born in NYC of German-Jewish parents who took her to Berlin for her brother's birth, her mother's suicide, and Hitler's rampage, causing many moves in her life, until she married to play the role of wife gleaned from movies she'd seen in her teens "after death did us part I went on a quest to get to know the one that's left. This book is part of that project.