Sam handed me the typescript of a new piece he’s working on. My puzzled look. His patient answer.
“Look,” he said. “I see it as a prompt for imagining. I have no desire to tell you what to feel or think. Take a moment. Get centered. Line at a time. Breathe. Let it work on you.”
“The message?”
“Don’t ask.”
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CON. EUCLID
EST. WOOH LIAR
Aliens Com:mission
grant ed asylum on
“humamtarllm grounds”
to thr .
rai . ee more
AmerIcan servicemen
slIlg the number there to 95.
f;TegreHosay
t.hat we of the
powerless to act
in “case of oral-geni1ii””intimacy,
unless it has in some
way.obst structed interstate
J. Edgar Hoover
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Horseshit
disgusted
by violent
gutter language
by perverse,
shocking ideas
by immersion
in every form of sex.
Well. then. wh) do
read sucl?
Because they think
that the things
are true
What happens is that
I
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someone picks up
nips
through
1ben, willing or nol
finds himself reading it
You see
even though there are
people who dislike oneshit
no one has ever claimed
tbat it was .dull
usual reaction
the opposite
people get violently angry
Others explode
Yet they read every word
complaining all the while
her’s that’s
diamet- rically
opposed
to every conventional idea
yet people read
reluc. tantly admil
that it’s true
If you w i1d·eyed
revolutionary raving
upsets
people
you’re wrong
Wbat shocks is
plain, unadorned truth
nonsense
it’s the Iluth that” ‘5((
new strange frighten. mg
to them
Try nesbit and you’U see.
Ifyou’re impatient
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