ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to bring together some of the threads that have traced their way through the foregoing pages and to bring them together in a positive spirit; to suggest that, despite the many indications to the contrary, some hope can, nonetheless, be found in the "inside stories" of adolescents. It falls into three sections: "There's No Clock in the Forest"; "Two Containing Poems"; "A Late-Adolescent Dream". In the quite different private spaces of an alternative version of the development of the adolescent mind, expressed in two poems of Carol Satyamurti's, we can appreciate, in a bare few stanzas, the compression of the experience of psychological and emotional growth and the expansion of meaning, despite all the odds. Time as a matter of basic measurement and also as a central metaphor for different states of consciousness, is especially important for understanding the adolescent mentality.
