WHITY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1989, PAGE 5 Silence. Beneath the chair on whicb I sit, a princesu fights with the monsters of the cark Scaredy-cats, she cails them, which invade ber sleep. Upstairs, in ber own roomn, she nightly goes through hu e prts of ber growing libraryreading herself osCee.The monsters -- ugly, say things, with long, floppy, black eurs and hideous tengues -- linger in ber c oset, lurk under the bed, Lde just outeida ber window. Strange, this part of a three-year-old's world. These shadowy creatures always disappear before adult eyes. A.nd it's not au though they "do' anythingr -- they're just there, a bad dreamn. Like paying buîis. Alimony. Income tax. Talking te ill-tempered female yuppie lawyers. Until a few days ago, these monsters were onI shudowy creatures in a littie girls p retend world. WUt one chant, they could be summonedLaway: "Scuredy-cat, think of that, running around la your mother's bat." That chant doesn't work unyrore. No longer do we have to wait until clark te conjure up the denizens. These days she hops from chair te chair, across tables, stepping on cushions: anything te avoed stepping on the floor "wbere the monsters will get me." Monsters being the arcane creatures tbey are, they will not attack a three-year-old on certain errands: trips te the bathrooma are free from molestations, for instance. Cookie breaks, too. And monsters neyer, neyer go outside. Except, naturally, te lurk la the reflecting cark outside the glass of a chiid's bedroom window. And in case you thought these were perhaps cute, cuddly little monsters, the kind you might like te conjure up yourself te aid relaxation, forget it. These are tough critters. WITH OUR FEET UP by Bill Swan Tough critters Peter Pan cun't scare them. Seven Dwarfs cun't give them the heave-ho. Puss in Boots can't hornswoggie them. Bambi gets nowhere with them. Only one person in the whole world is tough enough to deal witb these creatures on their own turf: abject fear.# That person? Superman? Batman? Bob Attersley? Naw. Only one person can send scaredy-cats fleeing. Only one person cun dissolve that tbree-year.old's fears, calm ber terror, let ber sîeep in peace. Well, maybe two people. But ber mother is not home from work yet. Before adult eyes, these shadowy creatures always disappear. Ugly, scaly things with long, floppy black ears. Nigbtly she reads herseif tesllep. Strange. A few minutes ugo, when I started this piece, she fidgeted, afraid of sleep. But the powers of good have won u gain.' Father bau once more banished the nionsters, succeeding where even Peter Pan could not. And so, silence. Beneath the chair on which I siit, a princess sleeps, wrapped in ber own special blanket, safe from the monsters of the clark. It is time, the young man said, for old Swan to eat crow. Three weeks ugo, just three days before April Foolp's Day, I predicted that the great Utah test-tube fusion experinent would be unveiled au the biggest's April Fool's gag of the century. Youll have te admit, it had al the ear marks. Did yCu get a load of some of the TV coveruge, those great lab interview shots witb Pons or Fleischmann, the bubbling beakers in the background? And Peter Sellers himself couldn't bave sounded -more convincing in trying te, explain the physics at work. Attempts ut duplicating the experment have met; witb mixed success - some have ben able te, do it, some have not. But the consensus now seems te be that this whole thing is on the up.and-up. Think of it us perpetual motion: that stuif that high echool physics of thirty years ago teld us could neyer happen. Now it will. Something out of nothing Trickle'in pinches of power here - say from a flashligh't battery - and out psp enough energy te heat your house. That sti sundsasauthouh itisapartofa mugic act to me. 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