The F.B.I., the Los Angeles police and the Santa Monica police were still trying on Saturday to find and arrest Mr. Hirsch, who sometimes used the alias Israel Fisher, on state charges of possession of a destructive device and unrelated local charges.
Meanwhile, in his altered state of spiritual possession, Shorty experiences Haiti through the eyes of L'Ouverture, witnessing the violent birth of his nation — under siege then, as now, by forces domestic and foreign.
In Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, Menelaus is implicitly in such a mixed state of uncontrolled possession and controlled incorporation when he wrestles with Proteus, the old man of the sea, and forces him to prophesy.
It's a model, perhaps the model, of a director's exalted confrontation with an actress in a state of theatrical possession and supreme vulnerability; though filmed in a studio with the full complement of technical contrivances, it leapfrogs over the psychological contrivances of the Method to meet up with the raw, performance-centric modernism of the sixties and seventies.
"Who's Crazy?" seems made to propel viewers out of their seats to exult along with it in a state of cinematic possession, to break the contemplative boundaries of viewership and to break the bounds of the movie screen, in order to turn the movie theatre into an actual theatre in which exultant and frenzied viewers are integrated with the action of the Living Theatre itself.
When we finally came back to Ralph, he was asked about the state of demonic possession today.
"Laws vary from state to state for possession of a firearm, pepper sprays etc.," he added.
Ackoff and Emery propose that knowledge consists of at least two different senses: possession of facts (or awareness of a state of affairs) and possession of skills.
His suggestion, though undeniably odd, is not totally freakish; Stravinsky's work, after all, does depict states of spiritual possession.
