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slow driver. As a man who would one day drive Formula One race cars, David was astonished at the fluidity and skill with which

Kosinski finally got around the recalcitrant ahead of him - and entertained mightily when Kosinski then slowed to a crawl and

used those skills to prevent the car from passing him. He was more than a little shocked, however, when Kosinski persisted with

the game in the face of an oncoming truck, causing the other car to run off into a ditch.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 150-151)

Third character-revealing incident - how Kosinski played a little joke on one of his students.

Kosinski looked at the young man severely. "You know, the very first time I saw you I got the feeling you were going to die

young," he said. "In the past twenty years I've had the same feeling about several people and each time I've had it, they died. Of

course, I could be wrong this time."

The young man, who was afraid of being drafted and sent to Vietnam, started to cry.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 287)

Fourth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski exposed Yale students to the intellectual contributions

of the Neo Charles Mansonists.

As part of the class, the Yale undergraduates were required to write about their own deaths. To stimulate their thinking, Kosinski

brought in members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement - a group of Satanists who arrived dressed in gray. They

saw themselves as having some sort of tenuous link with Charles Manson's Helter-Skelter family. Proselytizing in Kosinski's Yale

classroom, they urged the students to "accept and embrace evil within themselves." This notion was uncomfortably close to

Kosinski's own claim to Krystyna Iwaszkiewicz that he could achieve revenge upon his enemies because of a pact with the Devil

[...]. The classroom episode took an unexpected turn when a young Jewish student went off with the Satanists, prompting an

exchange with the student's parents over the pedagogical appropriateness of this classroom activity.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 300-301)

Fifth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski entertained his dining partners.

One day, when the three couples had planned to have dinner in the city, Rose Styron arrived first and was persuaded to be his

accomplice in a prank. Kosinski would hide in his apartment on Seventy-ninth Street, and the others would look for him. They

came, looked, failed to find, and began to grow cross; Sadri was ready for dinner, and didn't find the prank so funny. Kosinski

finally unfolded himself from behind the cabinets in his darkroom.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 262)

Sixth character-revealing incident - what Kosinski did to Marian Javits's dog - from which some might

conclude that Jerzy Kosinski was not only the kind of man that you would not leave alone with your

daughter, and not only the kind of man that you would not leave alone with your son - he was the kind of

man that you would not leave alone with your dog.

Marian Javits, in particular, was charmed by him, and she continued to be his friend even after his stories and eccentricities had

become familiar - this despite the fact that one of his eccentricities had to do with her dog. Lying in bed recovering from a leg

injury received while riding, she was startled when her dog ran furiously across the room, dripping urine. A moment later Kosinski

appeared at the door. Later a friend told her that Kosinski had been observed abusing the dog in a way that would engender such

behavior.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 263)

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T.R. Reid Washington Post 9May98 60 Minutes gullibility

The program featured dramatic footage of a drug "mule" said to be smuggling several

million dollars' worth of heroin to London for Colombia's Cali drug cartel. The Guardian

reported, though, that the "mule" actually carried no drugs, that his trip to London was

paid for by the documentary's producers, and that many of the report's dramatic

moments were faked.

The instance of 60 Minutes credulity documented in the T.R. Reid Washington Post

article below occasions the following reflections, some of which demonstrate the

relevance of the article to Ukrainain affairs:

Successful Criminals Do Not Make Public Confessions. The 60 Minutes drug

smuggling broadcast whose title I will assume was The Mule shows individuals who

cooperate in a documentary exposing their own highly lucrative criminal activities

which is an incongruity. Successful criminals do not make public disclosure of their

crimes because this hastens their getting caught. I have discussed this self-evident

principle at length in Impossibilities of a TV documentary - whose focus is an ABC

television Prime Time documentary titled Girls for Sale featuring this same incongruity

of successful criminals disclosing their crimes, in this case the crime of employing

Slavic girls as sex slaves in Israel. One may say, then, that television news

sometimes demonstrates almost childlike insensitivity to incongruity, which is the same

as saying that it demonstrates almost childlike credulity, and that one incongruity

that it appears particularly insensitive to is that of successful criminals making

public confession of their crimes.

Television News Overlooks Many Diverse Incongruities. The earlier 60 Minutes