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T’S THE START OF THE PAV was a natural state o f affairs and that LOVA REVOLUTION: Shortly industrial conflict was unnatural and I unwarranted, was naive, unreal and before prime minister Gough Whitlam harmful. entered his amazing song and dance act in Peking it was announced that Fortunately for us all, his danger ous heresies have been roundly con China had signed a contract to buy up to $250 million worth o f Australian demned by our elders and betters in sugar, proving that not only western the business community, not to men nations are fools about food values. tion a new state premier. They know Passionfruit growers and egg vendors God is on their side. in Australia are also believed to be gearing up to complete the destruction he ultimate disgrace: o f this once proud race. United States president, Richard Obviously driven somewhat de T M. Nixon, who is having some slight mented by his fleeting success, Whit difficulties because he has somehow lam, after being allowed to meet chair mislaid a tape recording o f The Sound man Mao Tse-tung, started babbling to a o f Music in which he personally plays company journalist about our "long a star role, now knows quite definitely march’’ and generally behaving like a he is not acceptable in the best o f poor man’s version o f an international circles. Neither he nor his good wife statesman. Realising that they were have been invited to the wedding o f dealing with a madman, the Chinese Princess Anne and her layabout hus humored our leader by rousing rendi band to be. tions o f Click Go the Shears, Botany Bay and On The Road to Gundagai. Mr Whitlam took this as a compliment. E’S STILL REFUSING TO BUY HTHAT SWIMMING POOL: In the continuing saga o f Australian au thor Patrick White’s deteriorating di OU NEVER KNOW YOUR sease which prevents him from enjoy LUCK IN THE BIG CITY: Seek Y ing life to the full, it has now been ing to create an international incident revealed that he has given $11,500 to o f some sort, the aboriginal embassy, the aboriginal education council to at present camped on the lawn outside help educate black children. Next Canberra’s parliament house, sent a thing you know White will demand note to the Chinese government during that all people be given an equal start our leader’s tour demanding that the in life, make a plea for a true socialist Peking regime recognise the embassy government and argue that society has and denounce Mr Whitlam as a racist a duty to support the poor afflicted. who was “ arrogant in his treatment o f Australian blacks” . Perhaps the blacks were hoping for the rights similar to those now enjoyed by a racial minor ONT WORRY BHP, THE ity under Chinese rule - the Tibetans. DLABOR GOVERNMENT LOVES YOU: Federal labor minister Clyde Cameron, in a speech to the New South Wales Employers Feder H SHUT UP (OR WHY WHIT ation, said the number o f unions in OLAM WILL ALWAYS LOOK Australia were "sheer madness” , and LIKE A STATESMAN): Bill Snedden, claims that the unions were resisting leader o f some obscure Australian worker control to the bitter end be political group, told a meeting o f well cause they believed it was all part o f a wishers in Sydney after looking at a “ capitalistic plot” , and added that more than flattering portrait o f him . demarkation disputes were lunatic. self: “ He looks a pretty nice guy and. For his next trick he is going to I’m not. The fact is that I’m as tough advocate that all naughty unionists be as an old boot - I just happen to have blown to death from the mouth of the a nice exterior.” Someone should in cannon. form him that during mankind’s re corded history there has never been a i>'CKi£ single instance o f an old boot being the University of Tasmania’s chemistry Feingold, head of the department of ither that or he's going called upon to lead a country. department, has shown that eight per allergy at San Francisco’s Kaiser foun TO LIVE IN PORTUGAL: The cent o f Hobart children have danger E dation hospital, has related the rise o f ruling Portuguese party known as ously high levels o f lead poison in their a disease known as hyperkinesis, or Accao National Popular, headed by blood and could grow up mentally hyperactivity, with a rise in food and prime minister Dr Caetano, heavily UT WHAT’S GOING TO HAP retarded. "I t’s rather irresponsible for soft drink additives and it is true that supported by settlers in Angola and PEN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE adults to impose upon children the B it disappears once the afflicted chil Mozambique, who uphold the govern MIDDLE EARTH?It has been recorded possibility of becoming mentally re dren follow a special diet. It’s not the ment’s war against the so called rebel that French engineers have begun drill tarded for life just to keep lead in permissive societys fault, it’s Coca- guerrillas in the African provinces, has ing preliminary tunnels for under petrol when it may not be necessary,” Cola’s. been swept back into power once ground nuclear tests on the South Professor Bloom added in a somewhat again. Portugal, like neighboring Spain, Pacific atolls o f Mururoa and Fanga- naive comment. It is expected he will does not take kindly to dissidents be tofa because of the somewhat unpleas shortly be investigated for un-Austral et another madman they black, white, unionist or non ant world reaction to their present ian activities and, as a just punishment, YSPEAKS OUT: Professor J. E. unionist. series o f atmospheric pyrotechnic dis will be forced to act as a petrol station Isaac, a new deputy president o f the plays. The underground tests are ex attendant for the rest o f his life. Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbi pected to start in 1976 after two tration Commission, said that strikes further atmospheric explosions in by workers were often the only way to ONDER A LITTLE AS YOU 1974 and 1975. solve an industrial problem and that PSLURP YOUR MILKSHAKES: ood flavors are wait they should be allowed to run their The United Nations International Chil F in g FOR LEAD SURVIVORS: course, despite their cost and incon drens Emergency Fund (UNICEF), An American medical specialist has venience to industry. Accusing man has reported that 500 people are dying F RADIATION DOESNT GET announced that artificial colorings and agement of being “unusually morbid” each week in a famine that has hit the I YOU EXHAUST FUMES WILL: flavorings in food can cause serious about the strike action, he added that northern central parts o f the African A survey by professor Harry Bloom, at behavior disorders in children. Dr Ben the notion that industrial harmony state o f Ethiopia.
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Page 2 - T H E LIVING D AYLIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 with the Khyber Rifles. o ,UT ALONG the diseased artery of There are four seated separately al Melbourne known as that o f St. Kilda; ready here. A trendy South Yarra fluff Graphics from where he rowed his painted ladies to in a short sleeved tank top; a 35 year Ronald Searle’s the shore, across the gutter and into old estate agent (suburban) looking lost The Second Com those dark houses of flushed light. This without his familiar ducks on the wall; is where we go. two fitters and turners whose feelings ing o f Toulouse In the sarcophagus o f the night. are non-hesitant. Lautrec, Weiden- Down a leafy street where three middle The front door opens and the typical feld and Nicolson, aged men loiter: one beside a tree, one conversation ensues. It is interrupted by London. with a cigarette and the other still in a telephone call. Now there are six, all his car. These are those who linger with with a twenty minute wait. The tele their fantasies o f slinking through the al phone caller is fobbed o ff with a sneer. leys o f sordid things. They will tentat The new inmate is a well known pro ively enter the massage parlor at inter fessional footballer, who was thought vals and go through a process much the fully using a wrong name. same as this: The return o f “ John” . He has been * * * convinced apparently, to take one of UP THE flagged footpath and behind everything. He is being led down the the door: a lady sits at a desk nestling stairs to the photographic studio. “ John’ under stairs. The photographic/striptease is to be given a massage while another studio is on the left and the stairs circle woman strips o ff her sequined gown to upwards from the right. The walls are music and flashing lights. A $30 treat. covered with photographs of naked wo He carries his clothes, folded, on his men (circa Junior Squire) and men (look stomach under which he wears a small ing like extras from an Italian epic). white towel and an obvious erection. He A couple of kerosene heaters take is left standing in the foyer while the care o f the atmosphere. A sign states the girls discuss the situation. They talk dis Massage parlors are booming massage parlor isn’t responsible for ail passionately and he does not wear the ments causing the denial of your exis gaze o f several pairs o f eyes lightly. the world over. The sex industry tence in the sauna. The waiting room is Finally he is led off. to the left rear and the ladies room is in goes through stages of fashion; Time passes slowly. Now it is thirty "startling juxtaposition’’( l ) near. minutes later. The Hawaiian lady who is The desk girl wears a white blouse, nearing the end o f her 10 hour shift the brothel has gone the w a y of transparent in the fluorescent lighting. leads the way up the stairs. 3A K ’s “ al Her long pink slacks force out her ample the pedal radio. When men in the ternative music” is piped through the rear so, in standing, she has the look o f a rooms, bare except for a thin table cush question mark which lost its sentence. city want to drop their rocks ioned by towels and another smaller She speaks with the soft and over-articu table with a red light, two plastic sauce late pronunciation of a professional hos they seek the detached efficiency bottles containing oil, and a box of tess. tissues. “ Good-evening, have you been here At this time o f night the ladies are of a shower, body rub and before?” very busy so the clients are asked to “ N o.” have a shower instead o f a sauna. There blow job. In Melbourne She smiles with phosphorescent fence the floor is wet with anxious broad post teeth. feet(2) which left in the manner Doris our intrepid sleuths investigate. "$10 ordinary massage, $12 topless, may have entered. Three cigarettes la $18 slave (that’s slove!) with two girls. ter: (A pause). . . But there’ll be a wait o f "Are you dry now?” 20 minutes.” “ Yes” . A girl enters the waiting room and “ Was the shower nice?” asks for her client. “ John” rotundly comes out of the room. "Y es” . Those She is in the Hawaiian mode, her “ G ood” . few teeth the color o f her skin. She is “ Thanks” . obviously tired but he cannot see past She begins to loosen her bra, her the bikini pants and the black hands feel behind her back. transparent scarf wound round “Lie up on the bench face down spunky would you”. her breasts and knotted in the “OK”. small o f her back. Back at the She is anonymous, unobtrusive yet reception desk, the name is given, brown and rounded from the waist up. the $12 is paid. “Take the towel off”. Her smile points to the waiting The sauce bottle squirts up the legs ladies room, a sit down TV theatre. and across the back. She starts o ff at Three rows o f seats are arranged the feet, rubbing, and moves up. The before Hal Todd (G TV 9’s late- conversation in the next room is aud night raconteur) and a small table ible. Someone is commenting on the with many Pix, motor cycle strength o f his masseuse’s hands, then from magazines and ragged Playboys. falters. Ten minutes later he offers her There are no sharp movements an extra $4 to pull him off. B u t. . . here. Only dim shadows “Hand relief is an extra $10 and be falling from the TV to the sides I’d be a fool to accept less” . pale blue walls. She taps lightly on the behind. “Roll over” . Shady The windows are cloaked More sauce bottle and adroit rub with red cotton to hush bing^3) doing a “ U” turn around the the light. No one speaks dark forbidden triangle o f sex. After as Errol Flynn pole some peremptory cracking of finger Lane vaults his way around
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TH E LIVING D AY LIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 — Page 3 joints she offers another shower and one of the four decamped northerly to hands over the same towel. She didnt Sydney to acquire some ladies for his seem to have grasped the art o f mas salons. When the fecund blast o f a sage. Or was it that she hadn’t heard o f subtle autumn breeze sloped to the ubi a rt. . . quitous warmth of winter. He drove The oil will not come off and feels there in his middle aged Holden and re uncomfortable like a new layer of turned in a Monaro. It was blue, the summer mould on the skin. The girl at color o f God. There is a violent tale the desk is still smiling as the door is around why it is now hidden in a junk approached. She speaks: yard in the southern suburbs. Its bat “Goodnight”. tered sides lie hidden under a rotting “ What does ‘In the room the w o truck chassis . . . men com e and go speaking o f Michel They started slowly . . . with a few angelo’ mean?” threats, trailing girls home, phoning “I’m sorry, what?” (4) them, warning that their present em “Thanks and goodnight.” ployment was in danger o f deployment In the street are some more pros Heavy Southern European accents at pectors — the sort that live under fish one am. are well known inducements of and chip wrappers and eat hot gravel. paranoia. Warming to this and armed They thought they could get a dis with news reports of Sydney hoods count late at night. they began a grinding process of intimi * * * dation. First they took a well known St THERE is a nucleus of 6000 people in Kilda “ rent man” on side and had him Melbourne who weekly set out on the hassle respectable parlors from the flesh voyage — from truck drivers to so St Kilda Road premises. It is rumored licitors, they crawl from their offices they then began hiring the police cars. and rigs to feature with the ladies. Some One place had a police car outside five 700 have stabilised in various places, times in three weeks with one official while others traipse about in quest o f visit. the visible manifestation of Spick & One night at 4 am a massage parlor Span, still only l/6 d from newsagents. owner was locking up. He was then These things, like human suffering, are fired upon. He heard the shots smacking eternal. into the wall beside him. He noticed a * * * blue Monaro staring at him through AND with the summer came confusion. two headlights. It carried NSW plates. The massage parlor industry - or sim Sydney hoods dont come to Melbourne ply “ the industry” as it’s known in the waving their identikit. trade - is at present under threat o f a * * * group of Melbourne hoods who are try ANOTHER owner had his brakelines ing to look like Sydney hoods (prob Well, St. Kilda you reckon?” because the illegal places put locks on cut. Not that this was a crass unpro ably), or are backed by Sydney hoods “Yeah. Good luck”. the doors. fessional job. The lines had been cut (possibly), or are hoods from Sydney “Thanks” . There is a long silence The best way to bust a place is to through but then retaped with Band- (police hypothesis). while the gun and the persons eye each find one where the management takes aids, so the lines wouldnt burst until The fact is the police were giving other. The candle butt conversationist the money for the massage and the “ il heavy pressure was applied. His car was answers before any questions had been says: “ Well, I better be getting along I’ve legal service” . If this happens they can eventually stopped by a gutter, some asked. About 12 weeks ago Fred Syl got work to do” . The visitor winds up bust both the girl and the manageress. asphalt, and a brick fence. vester, chief o f the Victoria Police vice the window, then drives away. However, if the manageress were a They got into blackmail for a while. squad, made a tour o f a few massage There is a curtain call at the local smart cookie, and appealed against the One night three o f them called in on a parlors and told the owners Sydney police station. The constables listen to judgment she could continue, with the massage parlor where only two girls was to arrive with the force o f five the story smoking vaguely. They are publicity about the trial supplying the were working. One waited downstairs whirlwinds. He went on TV and he both young but with that cool apathy services until the retrial comes up — while the others had a “ rub” . When told the papers about it. And two which says there are other things on which means four months of brisk busi they returned from their massage one weeks later it started . . . their minds than crime. One o f them ness. claimed he had $150 fleeced from his * * * picks up a ringing telephone: Police on occasions park in their “ D” wallet whilst having his massage. The IT IS a dark night in Carlton. The time “ Hallo, Carlton here. Yeah the wagons outside the parlors, inhibiting the third man said “ Gosh” and the boss is three weeks past Sylvester’s statement. mighty Blues, not so mighty, no. Next visitors, especially during the business said, “ we will give you till tom orrow A candle butt conversationist walks year you reckon, yeah, Maybe, yeah, men’s shift from 8-10pm. It is alleged morning to find it, and while you are Lygon street, smelling the cafes and look Crosswell, yeah, terrible. No, can’t swear the going rate for hiring a wagon to looking you might as well arrange for ing into those bright lighted smoky pool you know, yeah we’ve got a visitor. No, upset a competitor is $100 per hour. the $150 he intends to lose here every rooms that attract womanless men, could be. Anyway, this bloke reckons However the same effect can be easily week from now on” . where he is stopped by a honk from he was just pulled up in the street by a achieved by affixing a false aerial on * * * the other side o f the street. A man bloke in a real Fiat. Ha Ha yeah red, the roof of a white Holden. in a real Fiat wheels around like a swan THE LADIES are mostly alright. The NSW registration. Yeah, reckons he’s * * * landing on one wing and winds his left LATELY Melbourne parlors have under job is no worse than working in the after some massage parlors in St. Kilda. window down. gone a spate o f robberies. All seem to public service, at least for the first Yeah . . . Anyway, he reckons the He leans across and a shadow falls be committed by anyone o f the same week; after which it progressively gets bloke’s got a gun. Yeah. In Lygon near across his face. He is still small, and four men using the same tired knife. worse. Yet, they earn more money than Faraday. OK, yeah see ya” . now mean, everything about him seems They’ve netted about $4000 in the past most women o f the same age. They to lack pigment. He rang off and grinned up. two months by wandering into the par range in personality. One lady who “ Do you know where there are any “ They’re sending a car up to Lygon lor at about 11pm when things are doesnt hold a drivers licence bought a massage parlors?” The voice is almost street to have a look ” . quiet and there are only one or two Mustang after she’d been working only high and his lips curl. If he wasnt dri “ He’ll be in St. Kilda by now ” . girls there. four weeks. One has two children and a ving around Carlton he would have been “ Yeah, she’ll be right” . The four with the rotating knife are nice husband and she’s getting some hanging around a Sharman tent in an * * * of serious intent and malevolent eye, money together for an overseas trip. out-of-the-way country show. IT IS not easy to learn how deeply the tattoos and guns. They shrug o ff knife Some just work for a couple of weeks “ They’re all around St. Kilda” . police are involved. All mere fragments. cuts and pitchfork dogs to death. For every now and then when they need “ St. Kilda?” The vice squad is a small group o f “ ex days and years. They have no dreams; some money .. . “ Yeah” . perienced policemen” . The local police the immediacy of their world is un “It’s a floating population - in the “ Melbourne’s a dead place,” he said, in St. Kildia and Prahran are younger. canny; and their indifference is legion time I’ve been there (one and a half bloody dead! I’ve been here a week and There is no real liaison between them. in the parlor land south o f the Yarra. weeks) two got kicked out for shooting I need some money, I’m here to do a ’’It’s fairly easy for the police but a They are ugly, and fat, with big sticks up too much and three others left.” job on them. Have a look at the front girl. All they do is pay for their mas and no mediators. They have no gods Very few have any job enthusiasm. o f me car and you ’ll see what I mean.” sage and ask for a hand job which most but fear and see no lights but neon. It’s not particularly callous, they all He indicates the NSW number plate. places supply. They then produce their The four have wishes to take over need money in a hurry and this for A .38 appears in his hand. card and make out their warrants. The the business in Melbourne. They already them is the quickest way to get it to “ Is that real?” trouble comes on court day where they own a number of places and are expan gether. Rationalisations depend on the “ Yeah (opening the chamber and closing must swear on affidavit they werent ding quickly. One recently ordered 10 hangups, and only a few bother (or it).” guilty of complicity by having the hand new massage tables, which means at least “ Yeah its real alright. I’m down job. Or they arrive unannounced and three new salons. fron^S^dne^tc^dean^hese^jarlorsout. _startjD£emn£_doors;jrhisj^rel^_works_i_ They began some months ago when Page 4 — TH E LIVING D A Y LIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 fk ty CufAM. S THE thinking man's 9 6 — Water A gate — unfolds, what is being fo r gotten amidst the deluge of distracting bombshells is how in general terms it all confirms the scurrilous prophecies of the hippies and lefties o f the late 60s. As Washington shudders through an other crescendo of damning revelations, the most irresponsible and stoned head line allegations of the underground press — first to spell Nixon with a swastika "x " — are all coming true. It wasnt paranoia after all — the bugger's balmy. Even the porcine epithet can cope) with rationalisations. They “ We take an interest in our girls; we smiles as she sought an articulate des seems justified. The White House is noth merely grasp away at the oily phalluses like to have a happy situation here, but cription: ing if not a moral pigsty. with cash registers in their ey es. . . we dont question or involve ourselves “ These guys go through all their How deliciously appropriate that Rob “ No it doesnt worry me, I need the with what they do outside the times routines when you walk past them in in Askin launches his ludicrous campaign bread and they are willing to spend it; they work here” . the street — from the eyeballs to the for NSW premiership with the pledge that it’s just a pricey com fort station. Some nudges. Sort of a truncated war dance “ What sort o f girls do you em ploy?” "my government will be empowered to o f the girls try and give a sensual mas in Mike Treloar suits and thin rimmed “ They vary, there are a lot o f St do all things necessary to maintain law sage, but it depends on how tired you sunglasses. And you ’d be surprised Kilda hippies; they bring their friends and order in the community" . . . stolen are. It gets hard to stimulate much in how many end up here”. in, a few university types who never holus bolus from the scriptwriters of terest after you have worked for eight She digresses singing: “ Sons o f the last long, but they are good value while Agnew and Nixon. hours. I give a straight massage then arse-licking dying regime” . She’s they last; then there are the older ones, No other politician, possibly apart from whack them off, I’m not in it for the seen the film four times and still wont who have been in the game in different Uganda's general Amin, could call for law titillation — I dont believe in that. Al believe its Marxist. “ When they arrive ways for years — they’re good to have and order in that tone o f voice w ith o u t though it’s the only way to build up here I take command — it’s easy be around.” cringing from its irony. You fool Askin, regular clients and that’s where the They all like the boss, he’s generally cause it’s as if they feel they were this slogan is already renowned as the money is” . concerned, gets them o ff the premises forced here, and they are on their song o f Watergate. There are some especially lovely la with a special system and carries a gun, guard from the start because they Law 'n order is what the White House dies who are slowly and obviously des but not because he’s paranoid. A man dont know what to expect. I stand was chanting when the fingers were pull had just com e in that morning saying very close and only tell them about the troying something in themselves by ed on the triggers at Ken State University working in that atmosphere. They have he was a policeman and he wanted pro topless or “executive” rubs, hinting . . . when the druggies and demonstrators heard o f every way a family can be tection money. Fortunately there was there might be a little more, which were bugged and brutalised en masse another policeman already in attendance; they always fall for because they dont broken up, all the workers do is match ... when Attica was quenched and Kis job notes. And then there’s the pissed for different reasons. want to start off by antagonising me singer's cronies continued to defoliate * * * “Then they’ll try and impress with and arrogant businessmen who hit the Vietnam. Askin's electoral catchcry has massage parlors when the new sexuality hit talk o f money or the business which DOWNSTAIRS, away from the seamy become the neon-lit hallmark of inner the suburbs. was started with bleeding hands and a and tepid air, and out the door breath hypocrisy. rusty nail. It’s a game I’ve played so There’s also a relatively thin stream ing. Three young men are standing hum When faced with the pot/promiscuity/ often I just can’t lose any more. Jesus of young kids who are figuring on a ming, moving from foot to foot and strikers and students generation, the I’ve probably more money than they little bit of decadence. generally being unsure. AskNix gang always wanted to run 'em have” . * * * “ What’s it like in there?” asked the over. “ What about the other girls?” “ SWEENEY” , over lunch with three one in light summer slacks and desert In the late 60s it was Mr Law'n order “They are all fairly puritanical about masseuses, provided some answers. One boots. himself, John Mitchell, the attorney- sex. One asked me how to tell her was a vegemite roll addict and the “ What are you after?” general, who personally dished out the daughter about it and when they talk other three had veal parmigiana with con (He turns to his friends, who are Academy Awards of Protest to the Chica about screwing which is seldom — it’s versation running free as junket in a hot nudging each other.) go Eight. always described as relief massaging — tin spoon. “ Is it expensive?” And the AskNix's fear pornography. they divorce themselves completely. “ At first I felt threatened, I’ve never “ Reasonable: depends what you The NSW Libs seethe w ith censorship That’s why very few get into sucking seen so many erections, but the thing want.” bills and Nixon himself, in a manner — it’s hard to remain objective when that really annoys me is the guys who “Oh, then it’s OK is it?” which has since become familiar, once it’s between your teeth.” take so long to come . . . you can get “You won’t be able to get a screw launched a vigorous investigation into “ Dope?” a really sore arm.” first time.” porn, only to reject his committees con “ About half the girls smoke and “ I usually lie doton beside them” . “Oh no - we just wanted a mas clusions. half o f them are on harder stuff. They “ Why?” sage anyway” . W ith Watergate, however, the key is are only 18, but look much older; I “ Compassion? I’m not sure; they ob (The other parts of the “we” had not a lone, crazed individual. Nixon is not couldnt believe it. They buy clothes viously have some fantasy o f warmth disappeared by now - he notices it.) an insane Caligula atop a pyram id, manip from Georges, expensive perfumes etc. - and there’s me standing there with “ Oh Jesus, those gutless wonders, it’s ulating myriad puppet strings. He is a Also the drugs take up a lot of the my bra o ff and a handful o f oil. They the fourth place we’ve visited tonight.” mixed metaphor o f stolid middle class weekly cheque.” usually close their eyes and dont move He went to a nice Alfa Romeo with a virtues. Nix is family life and pragmatic until they’re going to come and then Right to Life sticker. (Hillary had once been a waitress in marriages, patriotism , Christianity, real they usually grab for your tits. Very Back inside to a room of faces full a St Kilda nightclub, which for a while ism, hamburgers, money, am bition, m il few (about five percent) have asked me o f anticipation; small trains puffing Marl- was the centre of a very heavy push itarism, television and Sammy Davis Jnr. to drop my pants, I can’t understand boros between thoughts. By now there ing operation.) That's why Watergate is much more it. They just don’t seem interested.” are seven relationships (though the word Ever since a Lebanese restaurant in than a scandal o f one adm inistration. It is "D o they say anything?” is discredited) in the offing and a quaint Melbourne got a kick/through/the door/ a crisis of middle class American values bust, the city’s drug scene has been “ Yes afterwards, a lot o f them really expectancy of Eiffel Tower legs be on every level. The Pentagon demanded a undergoing a perceptible shift to a believe they have to give pleasure to striding splay footed bodies on hard corrupt president, to comply with war benches. The boss arrived and flicked different resident ethnic pushing group. lies; big business required a greasy finger you, it’s usually something like “ How The four men mentioned earlier can I make you happy?” And I don’t his eyes at me. Down the passage and ed money grubbing fan of capitalism, have established some sort o f liaison with know how to answer that. I cant say into a back room, re-entering the house to choke their maraudings; Billy Graham the ring through a gambling club in give me five dollars and I’ll let you from a side door. A very special client needed another charlatan; and the Am eri Gertrude Street, Fitzroy suck m y tits, or leave a bigger tip. Oh, had arrived with $120 and we were to can people couldnt bear the thought that observe unseen. The first part o f the plan — Plan A their kids might be right, so they backed and then a few of them drop the old - seems to be something like this: Hine about what’s a nice girl . . . and One lady was on the bench manipu a known hustler out of crude fear for lating herself with a dildo. He was being It’s pretty obvious the four are setting their property, profit and prejudices. because I was stoned it cut'for a while up other parlors to be busted when until I realised how pathetic they were undressed by a naked lady. He said They backed the black knight and in a something to her and she went across ever they care to bring the police in. way deserve what they're bloody well — it’s so obvious what they’re really There is one fellow in particular who saying . . . ” to the bench and started sucking the getting. other lady. He then fucked both of is supplying a lot of free dope to When the kids asked fo r cake Nixon “ What?” girls in competition massage parlors. “It’s just a let down, and they feel them, and it was all over in 15 min answered w ith Mace and all those who utes. Although the girls are very particu were afraid of their little shop windows embarrassed as you’re wiping the come lar about keeping hard drugs off the o ff them with a tissue. Their drunken He cleaned his nails in the waiting shattering applauded like thunder, caus premises they dont mind so much fantasies won’t sustain that” . room before he left. “ I flash my ant ing a Republican landslide. about the hash. They started to play Kathy Kirby on lers on the air and though they spurn The moral holocaust of Watergate can “ Dear Hillary, what o f the future?” the juke box as the party left for the me from their door my soul shall not be rectified by a deft round of “ It’s cool. I’ll get a little more park. The one in the sun. The trees spurn them evermore” . congressional mazurka. It will end only bread together - ha ha - maybe open started running around. “ Hillary” came in. All the ladies had when society is not prostrate before the a place o f my own, ha ha . . . ” “ I had a guy who couldnt come unless respect for her because she was older feet of a lie — a lie that life is to do with he was verbally excited’. What do you say and at 25 revealed a laconic indiffer FOOTNOTES personal prosperity, being admired and when someone asks you to talk dirty? How ence which you felt she’d earned. A wielding power. (1) Thomas Hardy, Far From The nice it is in the park” . She yawns and one time anarchist turned mystic, she Madding Crowd. Now people are waking up; the Ask draws a stocking up. could dive off a pier, hit a submerged Nix's are desperate to distract. One man's (2) T. S. Eliot. Park and lunch pass. We are back at pylon and still come up smiling. Her Opera House opening is another man's (3) Eliot: “ Let the rocks groan with work, sitting in the girls room, looking resilience was legion. Middle East war. continual surges” . around. The boss enters and the girls Hillary revisited her old political When Askin is landslided home and (4) Raymond Chandler: begin to be busy. He is upset, actually stamping grounds and impressed her sets the police on to strikers it will be time “What does ‘In the room the women pissed o ff because his best girl has taken friends with some nice analogies: "Bare to put aside the pinups o f perfect mas come and go talking of Michelangelo an overdose "because her hippy mate the prick and their soul unravels its ters, skip the fem inist therapy classes and mean?” slept with another woman, I think she’s turgid machinations.” In the kind light take to the streets in solidarity with the “ It means whoever wrote it doesnt OK, I’ll go and see her soon” . she looked suspiciously like Tuesday green guerrillas. Unless his' equivalent to know much about women.” “ Do you like her?” Weld. There was an armchair o f □ impeachment comes first. THE LIVING D AY LIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 — Page 5 IN THE HALLOWED
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F OR THE past 12 months the conservation movement in V ictoria has been the arena for a quite bitter and vicious power struggle. Chiefly under attack was the executive of the Australian Conservation Foun dation. The ACF was accused of being timid, undemocratic and a might too friendly to the big business community. A recent series of ACF elections resulted in the ousting of the old guard conservatives by a loose coalition of activist conservationists. LIBERATION One member of the ACF hierarchy who had always been exempted from the criticisms, SALE Dr G eoff Mosley, has been pro MELBOURNE'S NEWEST AND BEST IMPORT RECORD SHOP IS moted from number five in the CELEBRATING ITS FIRST BIRTHDAY! pecking order to the newly created number one job of di ALL SINGLE ALBUMS (IMPORTS) SELLING AT $5.50 FOR ONE WEEK rector — a move engineered by ONLY. SUPER SPECIAL - ALLMAN BROTHERS - Brothers and Sisters at $5.30. the new group after the take over. The appointment, and the WAR - Deliver the Word; STAPLE SINGERS - Be What You Are; ROY WOOD takeover, has produced a wave — Boulders; ANDREW SISTERS — Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys — $6.00; ISAAC of resignations from what was HAYES - Joy; JOE WALSH - Barn Storm; MARVIN GAYE - Let's Get It On; left of the old guard. ROLLING STONES - Goat's Head Soup; ERIC CLAPTON - Live at the For the first time, a national Rainbow; Z Z TOP — Tres Hombres; URIAH HEEP — Sweet Freedom; conservation study conference is MOTHERS — Overnite Sensation; NEIL YOUNG — Time Fades Away; LOU being organised by voluntary REED - Berlin; DEODATO - Two; PETE SIN FIELD - Still; ELTON JOHN - conservation groups in associa Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (dble) — $10.00; NEW RIDERS — Panama Red; tion with the ACF. The venue ROY BUCHANNAN - Second Album; CANNED HEAT - New Age; DOOBIE BROTHERS - Captain and Me; CHUCK BERRY - Bio; BILL WITHERS - Live is Canberra, November 16-18, at Carnegie Hall (dble) — $10.00; LEON RUSSELL — Live (tple) — $12.00; and, there, hopefully, a co VARIOUS — Last Days at the Fillmore (tple) — $12.00; IGGY AND THE ordinated hational plan for con STOOGES - Raw Power; SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - Fresh; URIAH servation can be thrashed out. HEEP - Live (dble) $10.00; STEVIE WONDER - Innervisions. Those wishing to participate should contact: The Chairman, FEATURING ALL MUSHROOM RELEASES AT $5.50. Steering Committee, National Conservation Study Conference 155 Greville Street Prahran 3181 C/- ACF, 206 Clarendon St., (Off Chapel St, at Town Hall). East Melbourne 3002. "Melbourne's Progressive Music Centre” . - CHRIS HECTOR THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 6-12, 1973 — Page 7 Singing^ ^ the JOHN HEPWORTH sun down OUNG Phil O'Carroll padded desperation - that most o f us live call mad o f course . . . he tackled And he threw his chalk away up in the middle o f the night and Y into the poverty inquiry in need something to make them problems in his own way. There and walked out and as he went pissing into friends’ pianos, served Melbourne last Thursday with the medium rare bearable. And almost he was lecturing at the RMIT . .. past the reception desk the girl on i me very well. dust o f the Murray riverbanks on without exception this something referred to as mister Wigley by the the switchboard said: “ Oh mister Then all o f a sodden, in my declining years, I have abjured the his naked feet and put it to them is a thing that the establishment tealady and the girl on the switch Wigley, mister Tomlinson wants that for chrissakes while they will look at with suspicion and board . . . shoes on his feet and an to see you.” But he never went juice. It is, I assure you, a deeply were trying to fix it so that one distrust. umbrella against the rain . . . and back. Not ever. traumatic experience. Apart from and all could live in at least frugal I would hasten to add that this money in the paypacket every the appalling sensation o f feeling He came to see me late that comfort they should also make meanness o f spirit if not natural in second Thursday. well, you dont know what to do night. He’d spent some time bark sure that the official community mankind, it is something that is There he was with a piece o f with your hands. ing back at all the dogs who had didnt try to interfere with those imposed on us by the pressures o f chalk in his hand drawing on the My young, with touching filial- barked at him as he came down who choose to drop out of the unnatural society. I remember one blackboard and a collection of ity have rallied round me. “ Ever- the street. And he drank the last ratrace and embrace what others fine Summer’s day I was fornicat young thugs who thought they loving father,” they urge, “ take o f my gin and then drank the might call poverty because it en ing (with one o f my wives I regret wanted to be artists hanging on up the grass. You’ve got to have water out o f the vase with the abled them a way of life they to say) on a quiet stretch of the his words. And suddenly he stop something.” I am as I say deeply geraniums in it and then ate the wanted. Yarra riverbank round below the ped and looked out the window touched by their concern, but geraniums. Then he punched his Phil, 28, realised in the middle Boulevard. And suddenly round and he thought. Then he looked somehow the grass is not my brother who was also visiting me of lecturing on philosophy at the bend o f the river stroked an at the young thugs and he said: scene. Still they are right in that I at the time and he went away to ANU last year that the whole eight o f high school boys. “You poor little buggers, you. have to have something. And I Arnhem Land to live with a tribe thing was miserable and boring. It And they stopped, shipped Here I am with the chalk in my have found it. I AM A BAMBOO of black people and he did a fine GROWER. was time, he calculated, to put his oars and cheered, these golden lads hand standing here telling you piece o f work in ochre and crayon philosophical feet where his - not out o f prurience or derisive how to draw circles and squares A sort o f gnarled root o f the called Singing the Sun Down. And mouth was - so he shucked his nastiness but with lusty heartfelt and hypoteneuse and logarithms stuff was given to me by my for all I know he is living there yet friend Terry Brain who flies very shoes and took to the road. Cur delight that such things could be. because you think you want to be and may even be happy. ancient aircraft to King Island and rently he’s living up near Albury They were warmingly alive and artists - ARTISTS! And outside, in a cart, with a horse, his two innocent in the morning of the there, there’s people walking and N ot all o f us can do a Wigley, whose hangar cat invariably has year old daughter, whose given world at that moment - I wonder crawling and running and jumping but we all need something. For her kittens in the engine cowling name is Jesus, and her mother if they’re alive now and how and fighting and singing and LIV myself I found from my tenderest so that they travel extensively back and forth across Bass Strait Jewel Eastgate. they’re liking it? ING. You poor little buggers you, years that drinking to excess, gen He makes as much of a crust as My old mate Jimmy Wigley . . . I dont know what arrangements erally inducing a state o f sodden long before their eyes are open. they need for the body by doing Jimmy the Wig . . . an artist, and a you’re going to make, but I'm wreckedness, falling about and I planted Brian’s unlikely mucky jobs around the local good one. . . what they would going out to join them.” shouting and occasionally waking stump in my smallish court back farms and picking the occasional yard - AND IT HAS GROWN. peach. As for the soul - or It has grown some thirty foot whatever you might more proper high and thick as a rain forest and has spread all along the back fence ly call it - they live and love and and engulfed the Hills hoist where all that sort o f thing and Phil people once used to hang their writes a bit of philosophical mus clothes out to dry and it blocks ing that he doesnt expect anyone to publish and talks with anyone the back door and claws at the who will listen or talk back. window and has torn down the Phil has a bit o f a personal guttering and is forcing its way bitch with the establishment — under the edge of the roof. It is particularly in the guise o f the magnificent. child welfare department and the Most o f my friends and visitors wallopers — on account of how look at it with frank disbelief and they seem to think young Jesus is barely concealed alarm. Their not living the sort o f life a bird o f voices instinctively drop to a such tender years should be living whisper when they urge me to cut and they are constantly harassing it back - cut it back, the vandalis- Phil and Jewel on this score. tic bastards. They dont under stand what it’s all about. But what he had to say to the poverty inquiry was on more gen Save for one. A drunken and altogether admirable thespian who eral terms. What he suggested was that there should be a universal forced his way out into the court pension provided by the state - yard one night and came back freely available, with no questions bleeding and dishevelled, but asked or conditions tied to it. glowing with admiration and de This, he argued, would give real light. “The courtyard,” he said social security to the citizenry - a reverently. “ The bamboo. It’s thing which up to date has not magnificent. It’s superb. It’s made been greatly achieved. the whole area so completely and By all means, he said, make absolutely and beautifully unfunc sure that everyone got a fair slice, tional. It’s great. GREAT.” if not o f the community cake, at So that is how - despite being least o f the nourishing wholemeal in the habit o f going to work and bread, but lay o ff those experi wearing shoes most o f the time menting with different lifestyles. and having given up the booze Fair crack o f the whip was what after a lifetime devoted to it - I he called for those who didnt manage to survive in this improb want to wear shoes, or live in able world. I am a bam boo freak. houses, or get married, or go to I need my bamboo. Without it work on a regular basis. life would be filled with that same And indeed O’Carroll has sort o f involuntary shame and something. The lives — despairing help and hopelessness between that one feels when, having front ed absentmindedly to the urinal, one finds that one is inadvertently one’s own boot. I I
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FOR MNDMEN ONLY They’re making a film of Hermann Hesse’s novel, Steppenwolf. For the people behind the project.. Mel Fishman and Fred Haines — it has been a crazy uphill trek, with Fishman hassling for finance and Haines getting lost in the book’s history. MICHAEL ZWEKIN became caught in the works in its early stages . Here he takes us back to 1971... Next week: on the set.
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A was granted such a place during thinking about what to do when incredibly thrilled. It was only he got there. This wasnt some later that the question came up the First World War. Hermann Hesse was born thing that was going to happen and I checked. It was seven Loth Swiss. He grew up mostly in Ger there. It was happening now. ringerstrasse. We’d been in the many and was naturalised Ger In Frankfurt it was raining, but house next door. man. In 1916, taking refuge from the picture o f Brecht outside the "Y ou see . . . ” Fishman jumps office of the president of with glee "... That’s his prob World War One in Bern, he pub Suhrkamp Verlag Publishers was lem. That’s Fred’s problem. He lished an article called Oh Friends, smiling. Mel smiled back and en knew everything he was supposed Not These Tones which was a tered: “ I’d like to make this to feel. He got the right feeling in mild plea that the war should not movie and I really dont know how the wrong house. Fred’s always end world culture. He said it was to approach it. But I promise to getting the flash before the fix .” absurd for the French to burn try and keep it as difficult as Fred Haines has been flashing Goethe as for the Germans to burn French books. He was irrv possible.” Wait, they said . . . for years, writing screenplays of Fortunately Mel had practised Day of the Locust (shot down) mediately attacked as a traitor. waiting for 10 years in his garage Tropic of Cancer (shot down), The hostile reaction plus per in L.A., with a pet chicken.You Ulysses (nominated for an Oscar), sonal problems freaked him and can’t afford to get bored, other and now Steppenwolf, all o f he put himself under the care o f a wise you start doing a bunch o f which has led to bankruptcy: Dr Lang, a disciple o f Jung. The relationship between them is arbitrary shit just to keep busy. It “ There arent very many people adumbrated in Demian, which re becomes difficult to separate the who want a Fred Haines script on sulted from it. real from the self-created. You anything. When I was nominated must be able to lay low indefinite for an Academy Award for Ul By 1917 Hesse felt he had been ly in some place like Basel, which ysses, I thought ... oh wow, it’s reborn. He even took a new pen Mel was uniquely qualified to do. really going to take o ff now. I’ve name - Emile Sinclair. The old career, writing enter After some six months, mostly been dying to sell out all my life tainments, was over. The dividing laying low, he convinced Heiner . . . here I am! And the phone Hesse, Hermann’s son in charge of never rang. Imagine writing a line falls at Demian. From Demian on, the books are important, be-, the estate, that while kids may be screenplay of Ulysses. Dont even fore that only interesting. But his buying Steppenwolf they werent think about writing a good one, really reading it. A film would get just doing it is pretty heavy, right? health was rotten . . . a botched Hesse’s message to an entire new But how many people want an eye operation, sciatica, and he generation. Old Hermann would other Ulysses?” developed gout. He took opium approve. This would be a work of Fred, one of those people regularly for the pain and drank a art, of love, of total dedication. about whom it might be said “ he’s lot, which made the gout worse. It is essential, on a number like too good” has bad luck. He wrote He wrote Steppenwolf living this, to keep contact with the a little com edy set in Brazil, an miserably alone in Basel and Zu outside world. Mel would write original, which had some interest rich. At the time he was convinc Rick Herland: “ I think such and ing things going for it, principally ed he was invisible. such is happening is it true send that it could be shot for beans, Although the elite, Thomas m oney.” If the money came Mel but somebody died and the prop Mann for instance, fell hard for knew he was fixing feedback cor erty got tied up in an estate. Then Steppenwolf, the public did not. rectly, that the scene was still a biography of Lucky Kuciano They preferred Hesse’s old roman Fred Haines upright. Money is a check on but the cigar-chompers couldnt tic entertainments. There was a reality. figure it out. strong back-to-nature movement Mad Melvin embarked on the im OME PEOPLE thrive on The Steppenwolf price was He wrote a screenplay for Jan in Germany after the war and possible. Pre-producing Steppen legends and Mel Fishman is finally set at something over Kadar (Adrift). Kadar told him to writing about the underworld, rid S wolf has becom e a way o f life. one such person. Hermann Hesse $US100,000. Each time he fails to go flat-out and Fred wrote a wild ing around in big cars, jazz, dope, is a legend, so is his book Steppen- meet the deadline, the option gets Seymour, a cameraman from surrealist script but Kadar chang and whores was considered a wolf, which they said could not extended with a partial payment Los Angeles, resembles a cross ed his mind and decided to d o a bourgeois cop-out. be made into a film. * In fact and the price goes up. While Mel between Rip Van Winkle and Wil neo-realist movie which brings us These things represented up- Hermann said no in his will. Fish sees cigar-chompers in London, liam Tell and speaks English with to Mad Melvin and old Hermann. perclass degeneracy. The thing to man could disappear behind a Rome, New York. He’s pacing the a German accent by now. Joel "The lovely thing about my do was hike with a pack on your legend like th a t. . . floor, tugging his moustache: “ Oh Block goes into the office every professional career as a screen back singing folk songs, a return Few folks understand the art shit! I wish I was back in that day, next door to where Fred writer is the heads I’ve lived with. to the simple life, “ real” values, a o f not making movies. The movie garage with my chicken. I dont types, to send accounts to New What if the life o f Lucky Luciano “wholesome” Germany. Which can be the not-making-of-it if only know what the fuck to do. I mean York. (Pocket money dribbles had been an enormous success? soon enough, of course, turned somebody has a camera. we’re really in trouble. back.) Punchdrunk, he asks: I’d still be writing gangster films. into Hitler Youth. On his last film, Fishman was They’re charging me $175,000. “ What am I doing in Basel!” Fred I’d have spent the money anyway Steppenwolf is very nearly Haines is learning German so he as usual in pre production, living That’s SOME FAVOR! Right? I and would be no better o ff than autobiographical. There is much on the arm, as Jackie Gleason got hustled. I know it. I KNOW can read Hesse in the original, and with this life o f endless failures. less fiction in the book than one describes such a situation, in a IT!!! It’s the old Spanish prisoner working on a documentary about I’m willing to make it on a very imagines. He was writing the suite at the London Hilton. Eking hustle. I AM FUCKED! I’ve spent him. There are more o f them low financial level. I dont dream bloody novel as he was living it, in out some budget, friends surviving every cent I had on this. Herland’s unseen upstairs, plus women and o f great wealth. But it is incredi a sense he wrote himself back to on his room service, the trays in even deeper. We got hustled children . . . all waiting on Mad bly depressing to write screenplay health. lined down the hall from Mel’s simultaneously. The rights keep Melvin. after screenplay and see them go Haines has had plenty o f time “ There was once a man, Harry, door. running out. It’s always going . . . vanish. You can’t keep putting to study Hesse, over a year in called the Steppenwolf. He went He remembered the legend, back to Frankfurt and each time it out all the time if something Basel laying low. The Steppenwolf on two legs, wore clothes and was this thing nobody could ever get, we find them in bigger and better doesnt come back. Service Company knows how to a human being, but nevertheless the perfect exit. One needs a offices. How come? And have you One o f the things wrong with hang loose. he was in reality a w olf o f the number in this situation to dis notices? Every six months there’s our time is that art has to be so But Fred’s waiting: “ I want to appear into the unknown. In another Hermann Hesse book. Steppes. He had learned a good strident in order to capture a little direct. People always told me comes Rick Herland, president o f WHO’S WRITING THEM???!!! deal o f all that people o f a good passing moment o f the public’s writing was the best way to break intelligence can, and was a fairly a small distribution company. Mel AaHhhh ...” attention. You feel you have to into directing. But now that I’ve laid the legend on him. Herland * * * clever fellow. What he had not jolt people, shock them to get had zero acceptance with that, was a goldminer for a while, he learned, however, was this; to their attention. I’ve decided to go straight for the respects the grubstake hustle. Cut to number nine Linden- find contentment in himself and Fred shivers again. We pan out big prize. It’s funny, though, be “ How much do you need?” he strasse in the suburbs o f Basel, his own life." side . . . cause I think I’m one o f the ten asked. headquarters of the Steppenwolf “ In the winter o f 1924, Hesse best screen writers in the world “ Three hundred bucks. What Service company. Fred Haine at was living alone in Basel, in an and most o f my friends do too so do you want for 300 bucks?” his typewriter, shivering. Heat is attic room on Lothringerstrasse DURING the middle ages, Basel I’m always intrigued by the pos “ Half.” minimal and the neighbors are ...” Fred Haines has been delv was for books what Hollywood sibility . . . if I keep pressing on it “Right.” What’s the differ hostile. You could almost mistake ing into Hesse archives: “ We . . . became for films. The best binders just a little harder, a little longer. ence? Dickering at that point Fred for Fishman . . . moustache, went there one day and saw this and engravers were in Basel and “The only way I’m going to would be insanity. It can’t happen mid-30s, outsized pullover, ur guy going into number nine. He writers came here for production. direct this picture is if I stay right anyway, that’s the legend. bane, cynical, gentle acid eyes. looked at us strangely, we were It runs on pharmaceuticals, ch oco here on top o f it and fight every The perfect existential situa Fred thinks for a while, pulling just standing in front o f his house, lates, money, and time. It runs body off. I really believe in this tion. You can’t fail when you’re smoke. Old Hermann looks down looking at it. We said hello to him quietly. Switzerland is like living movie, I believe in the novel, I trying for something everybody approvingly from the wall. Fred and Francy, my wife, said we in a bank. The Swiss learned years believe in its commercial possibil knows can’t happen. Mel spent types: “Mel Fishman is paranoid were looking at his house because ago that the world needed a place ities, I think the Hesse phenom the three bills on a pair o f Cardin and depressive, so that he always Hermann Hesse once lived in it. to keep its secrets and they pro enon is more than just a booksell boots. sounds as though he’s about to “ It took the guy some time to vide it. er’s delight. Agent Clive Goodwin wrote a commit suicide or vanish into the figure out what we were talking A conservative country, fear While Mad Melvin circles the letter to Hesse’s publisher in jungles of Yucatan. Those of us about. He looked like you ’d lessly bourgeois, quite right, the globe in search o f inencumbered Frankfurt. The answer, translated sitting here in Basel wondering imagine the bourgeois narrator Swiss nevertheless see themselves risk capital, moaning: “ What are by a friend, was negative. Trans how we got here are largely living who writes the introduction to as the people who preserve culture all those people doing in Basel? out Mel’s fantasy.” the book. He didnt seem to know while everybody else goes mad. It lated again by another, some 'k You saw them. They’re counting nuance was added . . . Why should too much about Hermann Hesse, is hard to forget that the Nazis on me, the rats. Isnt that shitty o f we start thinking o f this problem? THIS is a prospectus: “THE but he was very gracious and were just over there across the them? Whyaretheywaiting? ? ! !” Who are you to put it in our BOOK IS THE STAR. When Ban asked us if w e’d like to come in Rhine. “ That night . gave me back heads? Dare you burden us with tam Books brought out the first and look around. And, by God . . . The Swiss take pride in their the unrelenting radiance o f my beautiful little country providing this?. . . paperback edition of Steppenwolf there it was . . . the wooden stair own life and made me recognise After a leisurely dinner, Mel in 1970 it sold 360,000 copies in case, the landing with the aran- a traditional place o f asylum, al chance as destiny once more and drove to Victoria Station in a the first 30 days. Bantam now has caria plant, the frosted glass win though only for the important see the ruins o f m y being as friend's Rolls Royce. One must 790,000 copies in print and is dow. We were on hallowed ground. and rich it’s true. Hesse who fragments o f the divine. ” j— | proceed slowly and in style seek re-issuing the book again. He took us up to the attic was extremely well known and ing the impossible. He wasnt even Five years have passed since where Harry Haller lived. We were widely read during his lifetime - PHOTOS: ISA HESSE7
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MICHAEL DRANSFIELD died on Good Friday, aged 24. He had been in hospital for a month; little more can be said about this, as the cause of his death has not yet been certified. Already the press has announced its WAGES BOOST TO vulgar gawping romanticism: that one so young should have been an accepted poet already. Public success being all they admire. The point is that he did write poems of outstanding quality — the marvel is the poetry not the poet’s age. Indeed I’m inclined to think success, the way it came, was one of the most damaging things that LIFT FOOD COSTS happened to Michael Dransfield in the last three years of his life because it made such demands on him, and on the image he had created for himself. He was saved by his capacity for love. His brave exposure of his own vulnerability was a rare gift. He was loved by many people. He will be deeply missed by us all. Rodney Hall (23.5.73)
From a page in NEWS & WEATHER, created by Nigel Roberts and Richard Tipping. They will be providing regular pages for TLD. They issue this invitation: “ Send poetry on the state o f the state . . . verse/typography that refutes McLuhan’s claim that the linear medium is dead. We want graphics, letters; poetry and drawings in mix. We aim at more than collating a page o f verse . . . we want to present the texture, the world o f poetry, and the finished poem as object . . . a poetry resource page, yr interview, and relevant documentation. Submit yr poetics, yr photograph and relevant material. NEWS & WEATHER, 33 Duke Street, East Balmain, 2041.” THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 6-12, 1973 — Page 9 An is open fop epnolrnenfs ' R 74- PK. 44q ,q50 k,ds arflefK^e-to fined o u t about" fb hoc 'V T h e r e r r e diiferent kinds of moods at school. At the bevinnins it always rined; the sound of the r? in on the tin roof and the 1.1- P o * t k s y - frogs crocking, the fluorescent lights on the wooden boards , X krioej ( Will C-boO' the mud, the rainco; ts inside, m -:de a feeling by themselves! ♦'a'- of(k,e.WoOc The r. in \y: s the surrounding mood, how, whenever it reins 10 ib t P op * fbcjl -Hoe. I feel the inside feeling there w?s then — the mood of the people. Hua/vioin P ace. o>/'ll It was a teenager sort of mood, full of encounter grouos and n t t o r o . poetry sessions and guitars. There were a lot of fifteen-year olds u ^ 1 k n o vy ( wi l\ b m ( We're not like that any more. The fifteen-year olds have nearly Tam a perjoo i ' /,Vei \ r o r all left, for reasons of exams or other things. ^ y Self. I cJno. There is a s u n n y mood - when the sky is blue and the sun shines; ■fin e. but it's still cold, washed, after rain. Then peonle fetch the clay bify road^fkve oIq a V h o + from the pottery shed and sit cross-legged on the"front lnwn in a group to make coil pots. Those days Astrid is usually in the side rvo e ^ verandah, full in the sun, screen printing with yellow and orange cio o o ^ ^ o 11 v/e •n o. and red. People play volley-ball and soccer. The orange table is carried outside under the wattle tree, with the inks, and people draw in ink in their own private style. We just sit outside in a group with sandwiches to talk and read /I quietly in the sun. There is p: terrible mood, v/hen r fight st-rts, people trke sides o n /~\ VI n n-p + Vi nm wis -i s-i on n4- nv\ « „ ~ U ... X ... 1 _ m l _ ^ f ybv p «- kids on the roof throw mud and stones, shout abuse. There are oeoole , * : a , screaming at each other, crying, crashing, mad, through the bush. People who aren't in the fight start breaking pieces of wood, \cy throwing rocks at the caravan. Once they poured kerosene into an c ant's nest. There is a terrible violence. It seems like the school is in a re 1 mess then. But we have made a rule, (after much damage) together, at the. school meeting, tftat peonle aren't allowed on the roof. That was about three months ago, and no-one has been on the roof. We have reinforced the old stone-throwing rule after peonle threw crumbling sandstone, protesting that it wasn't stone. We're going in no straight line, but we re ■lw-ys changing, moving. Whatever h- ppens is a new step. Yesterday I came to school and it was boiling hot. I thought of the poor beans and watered them. They looked sort of stuffy so I hoM se iV'jb ^ f a m i l y knelt in the e- rth and all the plants steamed in my face to Fe. -fbe. iVCXa/v) t b op tropically and I weeded. When I h~d finished the earth was loose oeopk and ooi -Hoe. and black and he lthy. I could see beans growing. h o r cr-ut e.1 fta rYl e ^ of PIre Behind me there was Indonesi-n music coming from the noisy car;- an. Sally and Iv. ark were going to <9ive a talk sbout Hinduism ikio^lcl T\en b r p a cja, and Buddhism, so I went. fo 4be wOo^s / The c:ravn is always in a friendly mess - old cloths, drawings, X vJOald <^0 vjifb +bem plants hanging from the ceiling, Johonne and Bonnie's Batiks. There were ten of us in there, sweating, breathing, living, and soon the air bee me close ; nd hot. I w; s happy talking about in d (P er a'F'OP Indonesia. Sally had brought some batiks and"weavings and wood carvings. of lb e buipao rpce Afterwards Gerard came for drama and we closed ourselves in the main room. IV' erk and Ron and I acted something. We just beg^n, and ltQvt -Uot add I don't know whgt it was, a sort of wild dance. Q 'Sibei im oi ocier\ry- flo w e r g irl as beautiful as the flowers around her is jumping up and down to the sound of the piano, it ’s really beaut and so u n rea l. i would la ve to meet her, she reminds no of someone I know. She probably would not like me t a ll r or net i t 311 The Google quietly rest* his cogling tongue While the Dooverl skrwarkingly sings through Yes go on Hake a loud n o ise i t ’s easier than be lni> quiet. -■ Page 10- T H E LIVING D A Y LIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 Tabloid Story Number4 TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS — Page 1 1 2 it’s divided loyalties what are you come down off the throne and left loosen up. A joint appeared from going to do. He thus spaketh where’s his gleaming hendrix resting against the right. He said no thanks man HOW the strength, to no one in particular. a full-volumed amp. The joker and put the flagon somewhere in A lady looked at bloggs. He opened reached for two cans of toohey’s the vicinity of his mouth. Good his right palm to her and asked flag. I knew he was getting warm. gear he said, ritualistically wiping where’s the dope. They went Bloggs sucked on a joint that his chin with the orange scarf. I inside to where the acme rock band appeared from the left and dis took the flagon and checked its M i$ £ u ttE D were doing an injustice to getting appeared to the right. He kept his contents. I looked at bloggs. You themselves together. Seeing the eyes open. Not bad shit he said. by passed some marijuana. It was dope lying ritualistically in the He burped and smoke tumbled out. bad gear man, it came from the HIS centre o f a round table, bloggs said As more smoke issued forth I right. We looked at each other. I to all in general mind if I do a reached for the flagon and drank said you must come to the laundro TEETH number. While actively participat with my eyes shut. They began mat on Saturday mornings bloggs. ing in the ajax atrocities bloggs playing even more louder. I opened He said o.k., I’ll bring a deck of rolled an elephant ear. They all my eyes. Bloggs grinned, his false cards. The band began playing the THE paused for five seconds to listen and front teeth flashing seductively. thirteenth variation on a theme by then returned to the fray. One of Subtle as a horses hoof in the guts jimi. The mob from the pub had EVEHIHG the more poetic of the acme rock at xmas he said, and stripped down quietly arrived, dropping one bottle band suggested that it was a good to a blue singlet which matched his of pilsener on the floor. It didn’t life. Bloggs remarked that it was eyes as some lady had told him (or break. They quietly applauded. good dope. His friends grinned wryly, so he said she had). In the waist of Bloggs went over. I thought you noting that bloggs saw all dope that the low slung mauve flared pants — bastards were gunner come and was freely given as being good. A given to him by some northern lady pick us up. We did but you’d all ACME ROCK lady, self styled chief groupie, (according to bloggs i.e.) was an pissed off in the rain. Ah fuck, observed that bloggs had been living orange scarf that dangled between waiting for you is like waiting for with them fucking hippies up north his thighs. Bloggs adjusted the a bondi tram — it’ll be here next for too long. Bloggs said something copper bracelet from ecuador on crucifixion time. For god’s sake uninteresting and asked her to save his right wrist, checked the earing bloggs shut up and have a drink. VISITED him a dance. The band went off in given to him by theo the greek’s Bloggs acquiesced. He and two a weight to the institute to get the wife and the three colored plastic painters stood discussing politely scene rocking. The two friends and bangles belonging to some baby girl a recent inhibition of the Big W. bloggs stayed at the palace with a on his left wrist. He flared the I went over and got a drink but kindly pigeon shitting in their coffee orange scarf and strolled over to stood on the outskirts. It was too ROZELLE cups. They decided instantly that the joker’s no. 1 groupie seated one polite for me. Bloggs rocked on coffee was an upperdowner of first foot from the left speaker. She his heels and gently tapped one class magnitude and refrained from didn’t bat an eye. He genuflected painter in the chest. The best thing LITERARY drinking the rest. The man said that before her, bringing his eyes down that could happen for painting in the others were coming from the pub to meet hers. He arched a left eye australia is for bob finlayson and to give them a lift. They never brow. She looked once, then brett whitely to meet on the edge IHSTITUTE. fronted. Feeling benevolent, bloggs quickly away to the band, shaking of a cliff. The other painter handed said fuck it, let’s walk in the rain. her head. Four sideways steps him a joint and told him to get it One hour and much hysteria later, later, bloggs fronted the no. 2 into him. Bloggs obliged and hit the intrepid three arrived at the groupie seated ten feet from the them both with a bunched fist institute with a wet blanket. Bloggs left hand speaker. She was sweat gently in the biceps. Let’s get it ritualistically threw it at the left ing beneath her mascara with the on and enjoy this bloody dance he Bill Beard is better known for his speaker. The band hadn’t drunk effort of sitting so close. Bloggs yelled. He borrow ed a top hat poetry, which has appeared in more than a dozen cans, so the music gestured. She looked uncomfort which had arrived with some hang various little magazines like Free only had a metro beat. Two dozen able. Bloggs signalled to me to dog face and beard attached. He Poetry. Leatherjacket. and The pairs of arms pulled sweaty hands sock it to her and he moved on disappeared into the apology for a Australian and broadcast on the out of concealment and folded them down the line. I reluctantly gave kitchen seeking a mirror. All he ABC. across one dozen soon-to-be-devel her the flagon. She drank without He comes from Melbourne but found were three eleven year old oped breasts. Several gum chewing at various times has lived in spilling a drop and handed it back kids belting a door quite unritualis- Sydney, Byron Bay, and now moments later, the hands returned to me. I liked her at once (Bloggs tically with their fists. Bloggs felt down the south coast of NSW. to concealment — some even crossed later told me that she was interes behind the door and saw that it He plans to get some teeth and their legs. Two local young misses ting. I looked and waited. He was only c.s.r. timbrock. C’mon, go to South America. on three foot wedgies bopped it to said she’s got style. I waited. He hit the fucking thing, don’t pat it. each other across twenty feet in looked at me and asked, you watch The kids stopped and looked at centre hall. The three went up the hobo faulkner on television don’t each other. The five seconds pub. After polite discussions on the you. I threw down a whisky, neat). silence drew four other kids. What, I said to bloggs you’ve never yet relative merits and demerits o f haut- Bloggs looked at groupie no. 3 ya giving up already said bloggs been to an acme rock dance, it’s erne, they intrepidly shared the seated twenty feet from the left moving closer to them. One of the high time you went. Bloggs mur costs of a flagon of sock. Feeling hand speaker and decided that this elder kids said to him you have a mured something uninteresting but inadequate, bloggs attempted to was going too far. He spotted a go. Bloggs politely said I don’t managed to articulate a let’s went to pre-empt discussion by ordering pygmy walking into the hall blowing have to mate — I’ve got a top hat. space it all out. He stumbled thru two dozen old port cigars. The a joint and politely asked her for a The kid said gisser look. Bloggs the door after tripping over a pink bottle sales lady looked at him and dance. They moved onto the un ritualistically told him to get his rose in the floral carpet. You can told that this wasn’t a milk bar. polished floor. I sat on the edge of fucking hands off or he’d beat his tell bloggs has been around, just by Bloggs stepped outside to see if the stage. I could see bloggs was head in. The kids paused for three looking at his feet — especially his there were one up the road. There getting it on by getting it all seconds. Bloggs laughed and non-pacifist toes. A lady on the was. He stepped back inside and together, cooling it out and bring walked out the door into the acme eve o f departure to India told bloggs decided that it was too wet to say ing it all back home. I felt like music. The scene was beginning not to destroy himself, and gave anything. The lady friend suggested eating white sliced bread. After to groove. I could tell the pub had him a lead fish to hang around his getting paper cups for the band to three boogies bloggs escorted the shut by the way cartons o f cans and neck. Since then I’ve noticed that drink out of. Bloggs said fuck it, pygmy to a trestle seat, which she flagons kept knocking into the he has sometimes stopped kicking they’re all romantics — let ’em gratefully accepted. He came over amplifiers and each other on stage. into things. drink from the flagon. The sales to me ritualistically wiping his face bottle lady looked at him again and brow with the orange scarf. Bloggs arrived at the acme rock and asked him if he ate meat. Gissa swig of the old grape. He place foreground with his mother’s Bloggs told her that only people slobbered the best part of it onto umbrella and a rusted, crescent who smoke eat meat. They left his skin, chin and throat, and into shaped piece of tin. He announced the pub without even having a drink the fur he wore to keep his thyroid that it was the moon of the spotted and returned to the institute. I glands warm. Its gunner be a good jelly fish, and that this symbol would said to bloggs things look quiescent, night he mumbled Imma startin to blend in harmoniously with the like a calm before a storm. Bloggs other deluxe rubbish stored in the looked at me over his left shoulder rear of the palace. One of the men and told me to stop reading the foregathered gazed spuriously at the horoscope predictions in cleo. I sky of bloggses. One group were quickly reached for the flagon and going to drink in a dry dock, the socked it down. He went up the other were going to the interior of back to dig the sound. Too fuckin the acme mecca. I said to bloggs, loud he told the joker, who had Page 12 — TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS 3 I knew definitively, as is my nature truly amazing man. He had for her if she cared to dance. Before the kids had scattered when they to want to, when jules, the travelling saken the lady for shoulders and you could say medical authorities saw those false front teeth bared brewery and acme mascot, lurched two ladies from the pub. warn that smoking is a health back to the ears. Bloggs was in. He got up on stage and poured Shoulders had his paisley shirt open hazard, the other teenie had physically restrained by the friends, the stuff down the thief’s throat as to the navel, baring his expansive wedgied her way across the gap who variously told him to cool it he was thumping the bass with the chest. For once, he looked the and yelled at bloggs to piss off. and took the bottle from his gleaming neck erect and his back wry, lecherous boogie-wooger-who He laughed good naturedly, and surprised hands. Over on the other arched. It was the classical greek knew-how-to-get-it-on that he suggested that the three o f them side, a debate was ensuing between pose, as exem plified b y the jew really was. He was disgustingly dance together within spitting the youth and his colleagues, and cohen in his latter day tragedies. brilliant. Bloggs winked at him distance. The teenie swallowed the businessman and the lady with My heart warmed. Bloggs asked why and shared a bottle of export her gum, yelled at bloggs that he stiff backed support from the two doesn’t the thief strip. I told him pilsener with him. The band began was a fucking perv, grabbed her painters. Bloggs eventually went last time that had happened there playing noisily by kicking all the mate who was smiling by the over and shook hands with the youth had been a complaint two weeks empties off stage except jules, wrist and dragged her off. Some without apologising. What a fool I later in the local paper about too who was still full. Bloggs whisked young gentleman confronted thought; the last of the untrammeleds much noise. He nodded, and went one of the ladies onto the floor. bloggs. You leave my wife alone, has cooled it. Ah bloggs, wherefore off to do a hip and thigh grind As the acme music progressed in do ya hear. Bloggs politely told art thy noble scone. Bloggs himself with a bespectacled lady who had true roxy fashion, I could see by him to fuck off; that he, bloggs, ritualistically sniffed out the nearest taken her glasses off, shut her eyes the way bloggs kept flashing his was here to enjoy himself, regard joint. The youth was subsequently and was dancing with herself. false front teeth at her, that he less of any bastard. The youth con chucked out by the businessman. There was something mysterious had resigned himself to the tight sidered this, and arrived at the con Bloggs topped himself up with more about her. She but dimly per control she maintained on her clusion that it was unwarranted acme music and proceeded to get it ceived bloggs, but he drew her out self. She looked everywhere, and extremely rude. He thereby on. By this time I knew the situation until their upraised palms kissed m ostly into space, excep t at lashed out at bloggses eyes with to be happily irredeemable; bloggs in a slow piroutte of touching bloogs. Regardless, he danced his pointed fingers. Bloggs rode had sniffed blood. The kids had bottoms. I felt like drinking roha with her until she kept biting one it back and he and the youth sniffed it too. What a night! what a herbal tea. The young rozelle fingernail. Bloggs, regarding this stood glaring ritualistically at drama! this must go down in the toughies must have felt likewise, as a slight upon her beauty, kept each other. Before you could say anals of acme rubbish. Could I cope? as they kept accidentally kicking removing the finger from her pop, snuffle and crap, the earlier I came out from behind the right at bloggs while he was intimately mouth and gritting teeth. A toughies appeared beside their hand speaker sweating, seeking some inclined and yelling poofta at him. joint arrived from the left. The soul brother and threatened bloggs. sock. Bloggs arrived with it, grinning. Bloggs was oblivious to anything lady stopped her dancing to suck Before you could say, the lady-of- I thought, those false front teeth but the rhythms emanating from on it. Bloggs waited then passed the-biting-nail stood ritualistically sure look vulnerable, and said you the young lady’s tight denim shorts. the joint on to the right. All the between the kids and bloggs, facing disappointed me bloggs. In true bobo Most gratifyingly to me, the acme time, he never took his eyes from them with her arms outstretched faulkner style, he looked at me music stopped before reaching its hers. I thought too fucking much behind her to contain bloggs. I until my navel contracted, and said ajax. Bloggs just stood there like and had a sip from some nearby reached for the claret and another the night is yet but a turtle. I an arrogant peacock, helping the flagon of claret. The painful burn burn. Things were warming up. socked down a gullet full and nodded lady to replace her glasses, then ing all the way down felt good. Bloggs wheeled the lady away by sagely. Bloggses foraging eye sought bowing low to kiss her palms. The I turned to some nearby chick and the waist to the left speaker, where out the bespectacled lady. She came kids were oddly silent. Bloggs said this is where the action is man. their friends were. The kids foll escorted her to the nearest She looked at me and retreated, owed. Turning around, bloggs saw combination of marijuana and putting her hand on her lad’s navel. them coming thru the crowd. He wine, where they imbibed quite I wondered what bloggs would said you little bastards, and wheeled readily. I thought to myself its have done in a similar situation. to grab an empty ben ean moselle all happening. I warmed up even The acme music stopped as noisily bottle of dubious vintage. I thought further when I perceived the thief as it had started. Jules was still shit! but drunk the claret in earnest. baring his brown, expansive but full. From my viewpoint, I could Bloggs swung back to charge, but hairless chest and considerable see the joker and the thief con biceps. I went over to where bloggs suming a businessman’s wine. Fan- and the chick were imbibing, Fucking-Tastic I thought. Bloggs intruding discreetly by asking her and the lady had parted and gone for a swig. She grinned sweetly in separate directions. Bloggs and looked at bloggs, who said went over to where one of the something unintelligible, like, get bored teenies was waiting to bop back to your window sonny, and it the twenty feet to the other flicked a lighted roach now here in equally as bored one, and asked particular. I went back behind the right hand speaker thinking the reverend alan walker’s usually cheery face will surely beam when I mention at the next world tomorrow party that bloggs had forsaken a roach and one joint, all in one night. I looked for this TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS — Page 13 over and treated him to the dance of an appropriate non-involved reply. board cup, looking disturbed. I flagon in that grin. I had an extra of the gloating veil; bloggs lapped it Before you could say hydrant boos said to four eyes things seem to be large swig. Then it stopped, the up. I thought bloggs you bastard, ter valve bloggs appeared, snarling; swinging. He looked around twice rain, the fight, the yelling, no cops, you’re hooked on sex and violence! what do these bastards do for before answering. Yeh man. He just stopped, for three seconds, I craved for another burn of that pleasure he said to no one in partic sidled off into the crowd, looking stunned silence. Then all the talking claret to take my mind off that ular. Gissa swig. High man said as insignificant as bill morgan started. I clutched the flagon. little arse o f his. I had another the fastest pusher in the west slowly, driving a yellow cab. I had another Bloggs was bleeding from the mouth quiet sip of wine and went over to great dance he observed to bloggs. swig of sock and wondered if I’d his hair was dripping wet, clothes where the lead singer Peter was I watched bloggs ritualistically wipe get home in time for garner ted’s torn. But he looked as arrogant as sitting with the lady. They were his chin and eye the crowd at the midnight epilogue on the radio. ever. Some old bikie pulled him both staring at the floor as if wait same time. I needa joint he said The music faded. One painter and inside the hall while tilings were ing for a ton of bricks to arrive. you wouldn’t have one would you. his wife came up to bloggs and the being settled outside. As he went I obliged. It’s high time you went I thought that this was being a bit lady. They all said inadequate things. past, his odour nearly drove me mad. on man, things have quietened down. too direct. I said to him how did Obviously they were close friends. I said nothing. I didn’t even look The lady glared at me and said you make out. He looked at me I felt like taking an overdose of at him, the cunt. Outside, things something inappropriate. Peter got and smiled. We parted the best of piriton spandets. I nearly succumbed toned down. Bloggs re-appeared on up, hitched his happy belly onto the enemies he said. The chucker came when a joint appeared from the left, the steps. He fixed his gaze on every stage and rolled a grinning jules out out of the kitchen and went down but my unatheletic background pre thing in particular and nothing in from where he had flaked under the to the stage, looking like hard rain cluded me. I took it over to the general. The drunken sixteen year drummer’s feet into a less comfort was gonna fall. I spotted the lady cronies and discreetly handed it to old who had thrown bloggs over the ing position against an amp. I standing beside the left hand the painter’s wife. This one has bonnet of a holden and yelled at looked around for bloggs. The speaker. Before I could take the gonorreah on it I said. They all him to quit to bring him to his businessman had hold of his wrist flagon from my lips, bloggs was at laughed good naturedly. I broke out senses, brought up one o f the kids and looked like he wanted to chuck her side. I said to four eyes see in a rash on my left knee. That’s who had been belting him. C’mon over him. Bloggs politely told him you brother, gave him the peace because of all the shit pouring out you pair of bastards, shake. Bloggs to get his fucking hands off; and sign and sauntered down to the stage. of you said bloggs. This had the just gazed at him. All I want is my that if he, the businessman, wanted Bloggs was shouting above the effect on me that mouth to mouth fucking teeth. The drunk kid said to chuck shit at him, well, he’d music into the lady’s right ear. resuscitation has on a dead mullet; look mate, we can’t find them, they better ask politely first. They They looked like two brown snakes I felt my faith restored. Bloggs had musta gone down the drain. They’re ritualistically glared at each other having tea and buttered scones saved the day again. I offered him a gone, so forget about’em and shake. for ten seconds. Like true romantics, together. Anything could happen. swig of sock. He said I’m going up Bloggs seemed to warm to this. He they decided to have it out in the It did. The fastest pusher in the the coast for a few days. You’re grinned and said righto digger, and kitchen. The doors were closed. west separated them with a joint. going to leave me with this lady I shook with the other kid. He went I could only vaguely hear. The Somehow, they laughed. So did four said. She looked at me. Don’t worry, back into the acme music, where the chucker told bloggs that this was eyes, at he knew not what. It’s good you won’t catch the pox. My spirits joker and the thief were letting it his show man, and if he, bloggs, shit man he said, home grown. soared. You can always rely on your all hang out and blowing it to the caused any more trouble, then his Bloggs observed that it tasted like friends I said. Bloggs looked at me chucker in true utopian fashion. I head would be where it was at. rozelle ratshit. The lady offered him and laughed, and the four of them flung the V2 empty flagon of sock Bloggs said something uninteresting. the joint. That’s why it’s good bloggs went off down the passageway. I onto the pavement. It smashed and The chucker told him that the lady she said. He sucked again. You owe went to follow, but a Vi dozen or so dribbled slowly into the gutter. had seen him throw the first punch. me a dance madam. They moved to young kids were trailing them. My None of the kids took any notice. She had told him so. Bloggs came the acme music, withholding every gut warmed. Before you could say I glared at their backs. The painter bursting out of the room. I preten thing. The joint appeared before my make mine cadbury’s, bloggs had who had waded into help bloggs was ded to be drinking. He said some eyes on the fingertips of the fastest smashed an empty beer bottle against gone, with his wife. The lady had thing inadequate about thrusting my pusher in the west. No man I said the wall and m ade a V2 hearted thrust gone back inside to Peter. Everything hearing aid down my flagon sized I’m not a shit head-straight dr. at one of the kids throat. I thought was wrong. Was bloggs playing some ears and went back into the kitchen. mackenzies for me. He blinked. 1 you’re mad bloggs: they don’t nasty kind of joke on me? I went The door closed firmly behind him. don’t think he perceived the socio really want to hit you! Then I saw back inside and found a stale bottle I took another swig. A voice from logical impact of my discrimination. bloggses face. The bastard wanted of resch’s d.a. It tasted sickeningly behind said great dance man. A I looked around ; things seemed to them to hit him! All the while they beautiful, like the urine of a dead hand was upon my shoulder. I be swinging. Peter was scratching were belting him, bloggs had this butterfly left to ferment in 42 degrees turned m y head as casually as poss his balls and singing; shoulders was V2 smile on his face — even when his celsius, without an umbrella. I ible under the circumstances. It boogieing with some lady and false front teeth flew out into the resolved to speak severely to bloggs, was four eyes, the fastest pusher in enjoying it; the joker and the thief gutter and was swept away with the som etim e. west balmain. My crutch itched. were getting the acme out of their torrents. And he didn’t even look What untold drama! Would victor systems; the lady and bloggs were like he wanted to defend himself! the manure pusher from east bal dancing a kind o f mutual Vietnamese I yelled fight you cunt! He seemed main turn up? Was this institute xmas ceasefire dance; the kids were to hear thru the barrage pounding big enough for the two of them? hovering near the kitchen, unable to his head, but shut his eyes and My mind boggled. I put the flagon take their eyes off bloggs; the chuck grinned. You greasy prick, fight! to lips to give myself room to think er was sipping wine from the card I wanted to go over and smash the Page 14— TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS 5 I'm 24. I'm a journalist and a reporter and I work for a very conventional magazine as an underpaid employee because sometimes I get to do my own thing and write about the people and the situations that keep me awake at night when my conscience can't sleep. I never write happy stories and I never report happy events. I only write well about things that are true and things that make me cry, and that hurt. But as I'm fairly happy this only means I’m not a prolific writer. I'm Australian and I come from a large family and I've been a reporter of just about everything and worked in Perth and Sydney and Canberra. I live in Sydney. You’re locked inside your gold plated car now, star. Do you have I'm very young because I still your own key even to that? think I can reform the world and make everyone equal and happy Oh I should feel sad for you, and and uncorrupt. I want to write forgiving, quote old love songs to another Power Without Glory and do lots of other things that you perhaps ....“ if you ever change nobody else wants me to do. If your mind, come back to m e ...... they did I wouldn't be writing I’ll understand” My blood is weak this commercial, would I? enough to feel that way but you gave me some of your strong blood so I Anyway this story is true. There'd don’t, can’t say it. You didn’t give be no point in writing it if it me enough to take away the pain weren't. and hurt and bitter angry tears and loss. You didn’t give me enough Geraldine Willesee to take away the pain and hurt and I can feel angry at you; a bitter taste bitter angry tears and loss. You is left in my body from you. You didn’t give me enough to stop me who gave me all the strength of your hurting inside for what might happen strong blood one day high on a Obituary to you in your cold glittering world hotel roof overlooking a strange city. without love. They have made you You were a man then. Take my ofa a freak. strong blood, feel it flowing into I shall devise an honest bill-board you, right through you, through sign outside the opera house when your whole body; my blood never you open there. The Country's First cries, you said. And I took your Pop Star Entirely Gold-Plated Elastic Man In strength and I didn’t cry then. I Person Performing Here In Marrion- didn’t thank you but for weeks and ette Show Tonight. Would anyone months afterwards, even after I really believe it though. Would they despised the ‘strength’ that gave you blood that never cried, I clung know? The groupie girls get fucked to those words and accepted the by you (but they don’t realise you vibes. can’t even remember the colour of their eyes) the children play footie But I despised your blood. Strong with you, the missus watches teev blood with no tears is gutless blood with you - a plastic gold coated etc. I thought and felt angry and bitter couldn’t do all that they will say. and sad for you . . . and me. Plastic robot man what have they Under a mask I thought I saw you. done to you. You saw danger and I did see you because you had holes trouble and love in my eyes and I cut in the mask for your eyes, and I saw danger and trouble and avarice, looked at them. I looked into them greed and a game in theirs. and through them and deep inside They didn’t bother to look in your I saw you; beautiful person. Hidden. honesty was not just frightening — You gave them the key to the you eyes of course. Only you and 1 I know I found you. It wasn’t for it was a little wonderful, beautiful behind the mask and they threw it know what was in your eyes. If very long but you were there, you and high and made you sneak out into the Harbour without even both it was still there, even though you’d weren’t just a masked blood donor from inside for a while. But you’re ering to open and peep inside because sent m e away because of the lure and now you’ve covered up your back safe inside now tortoise. You they didn’t care. But when you gave they placed for you .... You didn’t eyes and I don’t understand how throw your eyes at medefianty saying me your blood that day in that strange know about love and I said it was you’re going to see. You don’t want there’s nothing there. Proudly! city you gave me a secret formula the biggest high you’d ever get and to now and was all I gave you of I feel sick. with your eyes and that let me inside.... you asked me if I knew about the myself the strength for you to go to look. Even you admitted no law of gravity. If you’re gonna put blind? body else had ever had it. Nobody me up there, if love is at the peak If only I had caught you before they else will ever get that formula either then it’s got to come down, you said; Maybe you should have given me did — was it them or did they just because one of them saw you give it and I’m not planning on coming more of your blood, allowed me to seal your fate? Before they put jam to me and set out on the campaign down — I’m not gonna give you the give you some of mine; we should on your bread and offered you sponge trail to show you it was the wrong chance to hurt me, you said. But have got it while we could. Then cake and cream and bright coloured formula. My formula didn’t add up they already had you up. Only we would have survived, you and I. expensive cars and gave them to you to guaranteed gold-plated cars and way, down; and no help on the way. You think you’ve survived because and offered the sun and the stars and stars. If you’d taken my lure — the love you kept the mask on in the long gold plated cars and showed you the one — you could have come up run. You kept it on your lips and way. And they said they were your And you hesitated . . . and changed again if I’d let you fall. That is the spoke only in masked words. But friends. If only I had caught you the formula. No, you didn’t even living experience for feeling humans. you didn’t know that that was the before them. But I didn’t; they led change it. You rejected it completely language of life and love. I under you down to the heights and it looks and decided not to have another one. But you took their golden lure my stood the words. And even after like they’ve won. Your inner strength If there’s no key (they threw it away) wards you said I knew, that I had they’ve got that too haven’t they? and there’s no formula (they conned plastic robot man and when the law understood, that you had let it all you into throwing it away) then no- o f gravity is through w ith y ou I hang out — in your own limited one can get in. Simple. Simple. don’t know if I can pick up melted way. But that was when my plain Simple! plastic and spare tin robot parts. TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS - Page 15 6 the entrails — pinning the tail on the proverbial asse’s ass — eh ey . . . just a minute . . . this is a family show not the First Foxtrot in Frankfurt (got to keep it con tem p orary, as well as The Saga of clean you know). Now I hope all the family’s poised, pencil and paper The at the ready as we prepare to partici Rennie Onburp- pate in “ spot the influence” . S a g g i n g The Partly Saga of Rennie Unburp is influenced by: The Hindsight (a)m erica (b) Rennie whenever you are. (c) if the artist cares which alterna tive you choose. Bluey by Ranald Allan. Saga. (d ) it (e) Professor B.B. i(f) the combined influences of T.V. Metal. could be plotted would they read Rennie Unburp is an Australian myth was a joke) — then the Saga now by S. Steynes something like this? The 1948 Goon take it or leave it, like it or love it ; ..... looks like having both a beginning with the Wind in the Willows Lassie listed or SHOVE IT!! and an end. A head and a tail — Bluey took a deep breath as he who pissed off with Rinnie’s Tin, got which of course leaves us with the entered the main street; nothing new the Jack Aunty A.B.C. — Alf a bet Rennie Unburp drinks methylated problem of the body — in this case under the sun-lamp as white pinks we’ve regressed to the CLF again. spirits while watching television and Bernard B ergonzi’s. N ow , BB is a blicked across the street in a line of (g)sus Christ some order, please! this is part o f his story. THIS is the Professor o f English at Warwick heat-glazed asterisks . . . he went Partly Saga o f Rennie Unburp and University (just like our own mother straight round to Sheila’s. She had Answers of “ all of the above” or small fart in a pickle bottle for man less foal — little G.G.) but getting stayed with him twenty years but “ none of these” will be considered but a great leap forw ard ...... back to the body of his work — this had grown older faster she said taking if the multiple objective choosers consists of an original pelican with up mid-happy town crowded comfort are not friends, enemies, or in any “ I’ll repeat that . . . that’s GREAT the unlikely name of The Situation as respectable brothel madam — he way associated with or hold any LEAP FORD on the Magic Miles of o f the Novel. Situated somewhere lay awake all night missing in advance opinions on the situation of the Motives, Parasite Road — Chullora around the rectum of this particular the warm warble of his chickens — novel. Mailer all replies care of this and Lakemba and while your out Penguin is a misplaced appendix on that night the vague round figure of week’s mystery question — Why that way drop in at the Miranda Fair S. and himself got blickered on the the short story. This inflamed little aren’t we in Vietnam? and have a lo o k at Bankstown article naturally has no place in any bitter herb the young city whore Square and Roseland’s got branches had given S. in exchange for clean body of literature and so our literary Well folks this is Hamma A Roid every bloody where!!” sheets every day. The brothel had surgeon the Eminent Professor B.B. on behalf o f Bill Board and all of us boomed into violent colours on the proceeds to remove it — cut it out B.B!! here at Great Leap Forward Motives Rennie saw all sorts of things on wall and a sweet sickly smoke he had signing off - but first I want to television when he was into his spirits One fleshy fragment was found in a thought he was in hell until S. had send out a special cheerio call to and it is crucial that you bear in dirty little corner under the operating given him the funny pipe carved Professor Bernard Bergonzi — our mind — a nice ambiguity there, which table — a cancerous hunk — thus . . . erotic a naked woman and then used dealer, in the English branch could be utilized by the Sayer of inhaling the smoke up between the and I’m sure Bernie won’t mind us Rennie’s Partly Saga. “ You bare in “ For all its popularity and apparent little hard bone breasts — then it ending with his comments on your mind reader or you bare in mind necessity to magazine editors, the seemed like a dawn and the fear television’s Test Pattern. He says — audience - delete ‘whichever is not short story, in its present condition, was gone. “ The basic pattern is predictable. applicable’ even though it should seems to be unhealthily limited, Two or three specimens of human never have appeared anyway. both in the range of literary exper His dog who S. said had inhaled the ity, neither very elevated nor ience it offers and its capacity to fumes fucked a white fluffy cat belong repellently wretched at the outset, The problem was one of control — deepen our understanding of the to the asian whore and they had all are shown to the reader and charac of which Rennie possessed very world, or of one another.” laughed — they had contributed — terised with a few deft touches; little, but it didn’t end there, by he was happy — he stayed in bed all their strengths and, far more import any means. Perhaps even more The climax of Rennies Saga - what day it seemed cold in the town. ant their weaknesses are shown with potentially dangerous than Rennie’s else but to pause for a word from Sheila found him a coat new and exactly the right blend of compassion lack of control was the inevitable our sponsor. cleaned the spittle off the front of ate understanding and clear-eyed chaos which would result if anyone it. Then she had kicked him out of detachment. The narrative moves tried to pin down or worse, write “ Hi! I’m William Board — you can her room for the night shift — Sheila steadily and economically to a down, Rennie’s myth — down right call me Bill and I’m proud to represent said the classy blokes liked to take crisp moment of defeat; and then difficult, since there were so many Great Leap Ford Motives and I’d like the girls there with its red plush...B, diminuendo, to a bleeping finish forces at work — work forces, Air you to meet a special guest and a close thought that it looked like an old with, again, just the right mixture Forces, Armed Forces generally, friend. — Alf darn it, you big OT! pictureshow and she laughed when of pathos and irony.” Generals of Armed Forces, flying Come on over here, and hear about a he said so because she had got the forces, Law-N-forces, in short forces real used up firm, after all we do want stuff when they pulled down the Thank you Bernie that was a fitting beyond our control. Already we can a re-sponsor, and speaking of sponsors Roxy alternately the Boxy and the end to our show and as we leave witness how these forces have pre and backers . . . (away). Poxy depending on the quality of Rennie drinking his third bottle of vented us from learning very much life in the back stalls. He hung round methylated spirits, still watching about Rennie, other than the single My word, Alf a bet-a BB, the CLF across the road from the brothel for T.V. we must pause for a moment fact that he drank methylated spirits, and the CMF — all follow to the letter, a while — its structure never failed to ask ourselves, with just the right while watching T.V. the old middle of the road course out to interest him — two blocks of mixture of pathos and irony, We have stayed in one spot too long. here to Great Leap Ford Motives cubicles cast out of corrugated iron whether it could be said of Rennie cause, most everyone does. Alf I’d topped by barbed wire to keep out Unburp that there was Metho in One-spot; two-long, three-Rennie, like you to hear now from our Number the blacks he sniggered back to the his Madness? four-he’s a jolly nice fellow and one salesman — a real pain in the arse — time he had watched Black Bluey iF’IVE my way, we will learn some but Hamma-A-Roid’s got a big pile of smuggle in the girl discovered just thing more about him. But of used endings for this Saga — so let’s short of short time and she rebounded course myths like meths aren’t held hear about it - here’s the mike-Hamma like a spring into a wild cat pinging down very easily. take it away!” after him into the street with just a Ranald Allan was born in 1952 blouse that showed her brush — they in the NSW country, and is The problem of control has already “Thank you B.B. and hello out there hit the jack-pot and business boomed - currently completing an Arts been introduced, so the Partly Saga (hullo to you too, our Warwick BB) - degree at Sydney University. the brothel looked smermy during of Rennie Unburp could be said to well we’re just about to finish up, His stories have appeared in the day the night lights glancing out contain an introduction — a con but first let me tell you about this Tabloid Story 3 and in and hitting the footpath at angles - trolled one at that. Since it is en week’s competition. Well to cut a Southerly. they used to all be rosy red of visaged in the rough draft that short story long - we’re asking you French houses now they screeched Rennie’s Saga will end with endings not as we did last week to pick a out into the night in an hysterical of our own choosing — concluding title, or your nose, but to pick the wash of vilets and oranges and with a well executed punch line (as influence. Picking the influence electric greens and blues — they if this business o f short story writing entails picking an end to our tale from were fitting he thought — mad mole Page 16 — TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS 7 miner - he thought of whistling his Bella the whiskey piano princess door. She did not reply — damned The road mawed ahead as he Eent on dog and heading back to it all away She bared her arms to the shoppers uppity black bitch he grumbled into to elbow into the greater space, slow but went instead to Tibby’s Tea displaying limbs ugly with the scars the red dirt of the street. Bella had ing after a couple o f miles to turn off Rooms to dissolve his thoughts in of many cuts. “ The glass tore into disappeared. He was alone and on onto the bush tracks passing in a a sweet town teatreat; the little nip my naked body and the birth of the street again. He decided to stay dance of cat caution century old o f gin slipped him back to the first blood was the purification that we where he was warmed by the soft mine digs still yawing raw — time he had brought Sheila here, all must endure — the spirit o f red earth — the attentions of four or she had been a young girl almost wisdom entered my body through five slobbering dogs forced him to B. shuffled on over heaps of internal new to the game and she found the open wounds — his feet. debris — ahead a wind-break o f old life in the brothel of a frontier town Bluey greeted her and offered to wool five six arms wavin gin a ritual delightfully fast and loose — her face buy her a drink. She drew her Standing he looked up the main o f passing and raising — he hunkered had drawn him at first, it was pretty hanging face in and eyed him sus street and the past and present down arching his back to further dreadful and looked worse with piciously. He hummed a few bars grinned maliciously at him. He break up the wind, dust-filled — the paint on but she never seemed to and she followed him into one — shunted up the street; looking into bottle duly reached him and he drank notice that she was anything less Bella had been in the town forty plate glass windows at bright pyra down a searing gulp and it passed on than comely and even mourned the years and she never recognised mids o f things, absorbed until he into a receptive black claw — two, passing o f her features. There she anyone — every meeting was the noticed him. A shabby old geezer three, four bottles coming round - had been and he, sorry to see her first replayed like a pianola role. in a dirty old coat...bearing down welfare day — until they were all far languishing on the cane chair out She had been the only musical on him...yapping at his coat-tails... gone - from under his coat came the side her cubicle had for one night lady in the town early town — but turning suddenly the spectre dis bottle saved from the greedy gullet been her only customer next night radio came and stole her audience appeared...and it was him — the o f the whiskey piano princess — he, broke, had watched her and hardly anybody in the new quick and the dead jumped up and knowing her, they laughed — round beseiged — miners with money in town knew her as anything but she left. He continued through the and round — white cargo — acknow their pockets and sperm to bank — who harangued the shoppers. humpty jumble of presents every ledged as the red warmed them — still they were good friends and Crazy lady — displaying the scars thing looking really “ SPECIAL!!!!” finished completely each locked in tea taken at Tibby’s together on of her many bottle fights — the he liked the way the soap looked his own pain they lurched and shuffl the aggressively hot days when medallions of a crystal birth, like a gift great blocks of colour ed o ff one by one — somebody nobody had the energy to — waiting which it suddenly occurred to B — he was lost in a maze of gifts. laughed — and his molecular struct together for the cold to prick it was. This bright orange creature When his ears hurt he tries to get ure disintegrating into the red dust business up — and he would slip originally the gentle lady who out but a hatchet face at the soft. Bluey lay in an aged waggon back to the desert and the twenty played the piano at the polite silver gates makes him turn out rut and lay there gazing at the shim- acres of scrub that after all was him - gatherings of the early community his pockets she would not believe ering starlets young gum leaves and had been born of the death and he had only come to look. She was pleased — So it had gone for some years until loss and a baptism of shattered reluctantly let him through the one day she had shuddered at him glass — a dove dive into camp-fires turn stile and he happily fingered Sheila put the finishing touches to over tea and wanted to come and and shanties — rolled over in the soap for present that had her toilette and wonder-worried live with him out there — “ out countless gutters to receive the slipped into his trousers — and ate what had become o f Bluey in the there” — he had looked at her attentions of construction workers the glaced fruits that had rested past two days - she looked fretfully doubtfully while his heart raced miners blacks and while she was comfortably in his arm-pit. at the starving dog before her — he and wanted that — and he never still young the local constabulary would not live and it was closing in knew what had disgusted her in and the old house graced by roses B. slipped into a doorway and on her at last - it is not as if we the dusty promiscuous town — had peeled and shrunk behind waited for the old geezer who was don’t know because we do — desert and so she had come to what was weeds — so a fallen woman had following him but got sick of it flowers swam in her tears — yet she after all only an elaborate wurly shimmered and stumbled across and the glaced fruit and wandered had expected it prepared — she cried. and had done things as he would the town’s stage learning to into the silver-blue arcade and have. defend herself and a long lost watched the silent movie of the TV honour with a jagged ferocity The desert drew them and they wan set inside the blue tube indistinct and bottle ends — and so had dered about and across and left a bit figures whipped across the intense passed a thirty year celibate — of youth at every camp-fire and action the small space seemed unconsciousness. amazingly grew. She discovered crammed and B. stretched his arms blacks who were not bundles of old arched his back. His body felt greasy clothes and was haughty, Bluey realised, contemplated her packed with too many organs about Bluey struggled out of a strangely afraid and then impressed and fin spasmodic appearances in his to burst through a pounding blood deep sleep dragging a reluctant soul ally to his joy, silent. Admiring life — she was an old friend. spot in his head. He felt afraid and through wide black zones - sun iso the spitting bitch desert and those B. shivered as the face crumbled wondered if he was to fall into lated him on the bare ground —a that coped with her. into its weird flaky powder pleats unconsciousness. Better to go back and was before him as he returned to Sheila’s but there were the blokes piece of bacon in a fiery pan — he vomited and had to get away from it - Soon She could never have been a from a momentary flirtation with still hanging about outside — still mess — and was pitching forward into creature who looked greedily into a past face — he decided not to feeling unusual he sank to the gutter nothing coming to rest beside a bulky a small gilded mirror, but another look at her but to merely feel on the opposite side — watching in body and it smelled — so a black - he who sat long and watched emus run her presence as he did with Sheila. hate the resident pet Carlo make his put his arm affectionately about the for stretches digging so much the oily way into one of the cubicles. fellow-traveller and quietly died — bounce of those deep feathers and They drank together in the wine- Well Carlo did not enter there until never chased them again to get house reserved for blacks — since it was almost time for closing — so Sheila was anxious to nausea — a life feathers for a hat — he did it for her they had done up all the other pubs he waited and the filthy old brothel thread dangling dangerously — she with more plush and laminex guilt snickered at him — at his age like a could not be saved she was going to Suddenly mirrors too greasy — Bluey was corrugated iron chastity belt. The live— the smell o f vomit assailed her timid at entering there — even idea made him smile. He closed his out of the blue nostrils and she stared more fear the miners seemed to dress in eyes onto his chicken shed haven and gold and queenly crimsons of fully at the shrunken olf dog. dandies’ pants and floral shirts. warm soft caring. another dawning hot sweet tea Bella and he sat and drank the cheap He thought o f whistling his dog and A truck trundled along a bush track— she had said red. When she had first started to getting back there away — but a steady young boy watched care I’m going back to Town Bluey drink she had been a whiskey straight though the red did not reply it seem fully for over-hanging bushes — and stung into a past tart person he lady her last touch of grandeur left ed essential to get home — and yet stopping he got down from the cab had her when she had been forced to drink he sat on and wondered why Sheila and while his father dragged some ‘spat, emptied his tea, gathered his of the running pity wells — no more did not want to die in the desert — bloodied goat carcases from the tray swag, walked four miles and then - whiskey — nobody was that sorry. his foot was growing thick with pins he walked to the edge o f the pit — I knew you would never stick it Squinting an old yellow eye at him and needles — best he stand up and interested in the progress of decay and her laughter rang in merilloes she said you are getting old and that went away till business ended one o f the last load — his cou ntry eyes round the salt-brush it had been was the only time she ever admitted last walk before sinking into that soft widened slowly at the sight — an twenty-two years. continuity of acquaintance — bed surrounded by red velvet shining old man embraced a maggoty goat surprise, surprise. After the fifth with age — sure sure — he smiled a corpse and together they offered glass she made her way to the piano most beatific smile to himself — sure up their putrid richness. And I was cut out of the centre of and played a few tunes to a screech sure — avoiding the main street and a glass mountain delivered to the ing accompaniment and as the tears imitation old men in spit-caked coats earth in a wave o f blood as the of sentiment rose to B’s eyes they Bluey headed to the skirts of town jagged edges cut into my virgin ********** were kicked out by that big black swinging into a comfortable rhythm flesh. The passers-by hurried on bitch, Willa, who did the brothel’s and flowing the blood thinned his past the voice and Bluey left his laundry. He offered a placatory foot out — continued a lop-sided booth to join the source — it was greeting as she dragged him to the dog-less walk . 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Subscriptions are £ 1.50 for 4 issues, Free Poetry) and Richard Tipping (of Adelaide's £ 3 .0 0 for eight issues, £20 fo r life. Paris Review Mok). Copies — a poem or a dollar. is one of the most exciting publishers of new short fiction, one of the most reliable, yet constantly challenging, constantly changing, literary magazines there is. Recent issues have run work by Joyce Carol Oates, Harry Mathews, James Salter, James Schuyler, Paul West and Richard Stern. Page 18 — TABLOID STORY, No. 4, a supplement to LIVING DAYLIGHTS ■J , will c K o o ^ ft •■j o f me. w o o d s 6 I'lCif +he- i OCiCe iW'll n t t - a r o . ( WI l\ bt-nl ci Q J- ■ire. a n d plcxvj o a o n q -yi'qoo LI i Je. fo r OA -/Self . E cE io o §e c_e & ''gn i . MOlA1" InO^cK o O ' pie doA^C H o f * s W y°tVe f^-i rvAG^ -two vw ;fr’ 0 Ia t li o e • n q . y int'.ng of beautiful happy then the paiJrtin.« Ijiijiec}. The making of a play could give the school a sense of community and • shared experience. Something like this can’t be thrust upon people but has to grew cut of them. The strength of friendship with someone who shares such experiences can not be quickly broken and creates a sense o f harmony. ------oGo------ "Once upon ime seven happy people got together and painted a picture o f fairyland, d a cat, a bee, a flower, Wee Willie Winkie, a funny little man bbyar, a doll and a heroine. When they were finished they let everyone the real world come in. At first they were afraid that they would f up but then since they were very very good they pave them some j e l l y to turn them on . AND IT WORKED! So everybody flew away and they liv ever after". GRUB? What d id you think ’ I t was s l a c k ’ Why? ’I just didn't like it' \ MARKHow did you feel? 'I thought it was good, but I rea jv'It played like a trout, start jig gently in , with ^a reward of candy at the weakey t point e a giant party' 'Hiey weren't scared of whay- the audience said, and it looked n i c e '. ^ you like it Nat? terwards it was 0.K .) 'Cdiiiseieveryone got audience participation’ . P eople worked to g e th e r . I was that the audience reacted so well, it cOuId have b^en bettf link we did w ell'. 'The audifen' t stumtf&’Kito it . I ''ihink I put something into it '. w \ 'Great'. "on a good note. Th^re ^ere only 2 or 5 kids who weren’t interested’. \ 'I thought it was a time whensomething wa^ really going to work*. 'Lights were fun, being able to dress uj icciting to do the acting, like being in a proper play. Everyone wa|s ippy doing it. 'Great experience because I was able to woriitogether with kids witheul d ir e c t in g them, j was d is a p p o in te d some kids\ couldn't enter in to the atmosphere but that's QK. I enjoyed it personal point o f T ie * “ V * Its are not expected. I was able to express myself in a w tttt vCAl'WAA'tM^ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS iember6-12, 1973 — Page 19 PHANTOM PHENOMENON: Several millimetres o f this leaf have been cut What you away — indicated by the arrows. After removal o f part o f the leaf, a Kirlian photo still shows the entire leaf as are seeing before, though fainter in the area where the portion of the leaf is here actually missing. does not exist N O R M AN JONES HE TERMS extra sensory out o f use. Still more fascinating If mental telepathy is proved to T perception (ESP), psychical there was, he informed me, no be a fact, can the power or force research and para psychology in Rue St Pierre today; but at the be increased by some means? The this article, relate to the investiga time of the revolution a Rue St Russians have no doubt thought tion of phenomena which do not Pierre-aux-boeufs had existed on o f this too; in fact Czech bio at present conform to known laws the lie de Cite, close to Notre chemist Dr Milan Ryzi stated of science. Dame. in Psychic: “The bulk of recent Before perhaps adopting a nega Here was a woman who in telepathy research in the USSR is tive attitude to para psychology every day life had no knowledge concerned with the transmission we should consider the work of o f the French language or o f the of behavior impulses — or research Valentina and Semyon Kirlian, streets o f Paris. He goes on to say to subliminally control an indi two Soviet scientists. Over the - I ascertained that she had never vidual’s conduct.” Visiting Soviet past thirty years with the use o f so much as read a book about the para psychology laboratories in high speed photography, they French revolution — there was 1967, Dr Ryzl says he was told by have managed to see in living mat no question o f her having unwit a Russian it could be used as a ter a secondary “ energy-body” , a tingly stored a text in her sub form o f propaganda, what else? body which the human eye cannot conscious mind. The USSR has the means to see. The energy-body exists in How was she able to speak keep the results o f such research dependently from the physical French in a hypnotic trance? Why secret, and if applications such as body and it is thought that this should the obsolete name of believe this new form of energy this experiment. It was a classic o f the above are possible, no doubt force field is the aura mediums Marielle Palasse have com e to her can be stored. its time. the Soviet Union will use them. over the past few centuries have mind? And what explanation After a fierce eruption of But we will move on to the Dr Genady Sergeyev of the A. seen around people. could there be for her talk o f the poltergeist PK activity that present. Dr Vasiliev (Russian) A. Uktomski (1968) Physiological Then there is the fact o f Rue St Pierre - a street which had plagued the electrical installations carried out many experiments in Institute (Leningrad Military Lab) hypnotism. vanished decades ago from the and moved furniture in the this area. The Soviets, always talks about human force fields. He About 90 percent of all people Paris scene, but which she had chancery of R. A. Adams at Ros thorough, placed the subject in a claims he set up detectors some can be hypnotised. You cannot correctly located as lying close to enheim, Austria was observed in Faraday Cage. This completely distance from the body of a hypnotise a feeble minded person. Notre Dame? 1967 and at the beginning of stopped radio waves, but tele clinically dead man. No brain About 25 percent can be induced In The World o f Ted Serios by 1968 by witness accounts - in pathy still operated. They then waves or heart beat could be to the deep trance state suitable Jule Eisenbud MD Psychiatrist, vestigations by civic works as well built a lead capsule with a gully recorded, but the detectors leaped for mental telepathy. Perhaps one published 1968 by Jonathan as by Dr F. Karger o f the Institute filled with mercury. into action! Four yards from the in a hundred will exhibit certain- Cape, London, Eisenbud, an o f Plasmaphysics. Consider the The subject, Fedorova, was dead man the electromagnetic para-normal behavior. American doctor, claims Ted results if such forces, projected by placed inside the Faraday Cage. force fields were pulsing. Had an I myself have tried some ex Serios, an unemployed bellhop, a human outside the power of Tomashevky, the sender, climbed energy force been released? periments in this area, and con had the uncanny ability to project technicians could influence a into the capsule and the heavy Prejudice is a fact o f human sider it well worth further study. mental images directly on to a hydro plant, missile base or elec domed lid was lowered. No waves life. It is in general blind, some However, I found the problem of photographic film. Twentyfive trical plant. If a way is found to could move in or out, telepathy times a primitive fear. Para obtaining enough subjects very doctors o f science signed state control and increase the PK force just could not happen. But it is psychology also suffers from it. difficult. ments testifying to the validity of in a human being, then it could claimed it did. The subject lost Perhaps it’s a condition a human Dr J. Rodney, an English medi the experiments. becom e a deadly weapon. Russian consciousness by telepathic being would be better without, cal doctor, reports in his book, Unfortunately not everyone scientists must be aware o f its hypnosis. but sadly I doubt if a single Explorations o f a Hypnotist, upon feels that Ted and people like him potential. Vasiliev had built what is still person grows up without some a selection o f interesting cases. He are worth scientific study. There In Telepathic Hypnosis, a considered to be the world’s form o f prejudice. Every human writes about Mrs Baker who, are still many who not only con paper to the Societe de Physio- best proof that known electro being in a free society should have when under deep hypnosis was tinue to turn their backs on in logique in 1885, Pierre Janet, a magnetic waves) or radio waves do the right to his own views or age regressed to a period before vestigations o f this sort, but young neurologist, stated he could not carry telepathy. Towards the belief. But what has para psy she was bom , began speaking in whether they are aware o f it or confirm the claims made by Dr end o f his life he published his chology to do with belief? I French. not will do everything in their Gilbert o f Le Havre. The report experiments in Mental Suggestion have dwelt on Russia because The hypnotist asked, “ Do you power to sabotage any such pro caused wide interest and argu (1962). Further reading: Vasiliev a lot o f work is going on there. know the name o f the great gen gram. Dr Eisenbud is an Associate ment. Professor Janet was a re L. — Suggestions at a Distance — How many years ahead o f the eral?” Clinical Professor o f Psychiatry. spected scientist o f that period. Notes of a Physiologist, Moscow west are they? While many people “ Oui, Bonaparte.” It is claimed that Professor E. There are many articles written o f Gospolitizdat 1962. in the west refuse to believe that “ Which street do you live?” M. Monahan, at Georgia State ESP exists, it seems likely that top “ C’est Le Rue de St Pierre.” University, Atlanta, Georgia, calibre Soviet scientists are mak “ What do you drink?” USA, can make a needle move on ing significant breakthroughs in “ La bire” and so on. a compass and also move a paper psychical research. Dr R odney’s comments are as clip across a table top. It is called Our universities, Australian and follows: Psycho Kinesis (PK), the ability to English, teach and research social I addressed my inquiries to move an object by mind energy, sciences, psychology etc; all o f M. Jean-Claude Riviere, a French an unknown force possibly pro value in our complex society, but journalist of my acquaintance duced by the brain. There are also are we to continue to ignore the who, after a little local research, claims by Russian scientists in this mounting evidence of para provided me with two highly field. psychology? Anything that effects provocative items o f intelligence. Jn 1969 PK research o f an changes, controls a human being The first name Mrs Baker had undisclosed nature was going on - is this not also vitally im given while in a deep trance - in Tbilisi, Georgia, Russia. Nelya portant? Para psychology is not Marielle Palasse - was not only Mikhailove, it is claimed, can the preserve o f crackpots, in fact, French, but historic. It has now, move objects by use o f the PK in general, it is more the preserve so far as he could gather, fallen factor. Some Soviet scientists of serious thinking people. Page 20 — TH E LIVING D A Y LIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 □ TH E LIVING D A Y LIG H TS , November 6-12, 1973 — Page 20B U p & m n g fo r e u t e ! Q Colin Talbot EORGE Orwell certainly liked coffee, which is the sort of stuff G his beer. Couldn’t drag him people splash on their faces at the away from his local hotel. “George”, breakfast table before rushing for they’d say. “Come home and write the 8.50? Merely a stimulant to your book. The world’s waiting.” make the pen push faster. That’s And he’d reply “No mate, hold why big business has more coffee on”, and went on drinking. There breaks, and less tea breaks. Choco are claims that George invented the late drinks, of course, are fit only six-pack so he could take it to the for oafs, charlatans and children who zoo where he was researching one of need a lot of energy to smash each other round the playpen, or wherever his books. He used to dream about it is they learn to grow up. his favorite hotel. It was one of his But tea is to be sipped. Q uietly. relatives over here who brought in Bring back the tea houses goes the ten o ’clock closing. cry. Past August it may well be, But of course he wound up in and the lunar phase yet to come. Burma etc. for a while and it was That’s the one consolation of rail there the cosmos revealed to him way stations. Apart from taking you what it was all about. Tea. The story away from places, they have tea goes he was sitting in a monsoon houses. Unfortunately most of them one evening — as he was wont to do have degenerated to the teabag level. — just outside of Rangoon, when Poor George would turn in his crypt. the flash came. The skies rang, nay Would he were here now, or even in the very heavens spoke. All when it eleven years hence. And instant tea. was all done, George knew that was, Good grief what’s the world coming as it were, where it was at. to. Back in England basking in the Imagine a swagman tossing instant yellow of the night, George sipped tea or tea bags into his billy. Some his tea and thought socialist thoughts. how it’s not the same. Or even cof When he wasnt sinking brow n ales fee. Is nothing sacred. It has the and the ilk. His recipe for good tea making ring of an early Humphrey Bogart was simple, and probably any War- movie where he bounds through the rigul lady could tell you similar window in his whites with a racquet Firstly a china pot, which is pre and asks you know what. Every heated, is made the hom e for a num body was too busy drinking coffee ber of teaspoons of tea. The com because it was an American movie. mon usage is one tea spoon for each Apparently they dont have watercress participant, and one for the pot. in Hollywood. Secondly a goodly amount of wa Ah but back to nature, back to ter is boiled in a sterile recepticle tea, a natural drink. Out of the cof over a gas or wood flame. Most im fee houses and cafes and to the tea portantly, the water must have houses, possibly in our droves. It reached boiling point. Then the pot comes from a plant, obviously it’s is taken to the kettle, as they say, organic. Camellia Theasinensis to be and not vice versa. Sufficient water precise. Flourishes in Japan, India, is elegantly, but speedily added. The China. Cement relations with our tea pot is then rotated three times, Asian neighbours. Down with the and left to stand for a maximum Common Market and fascist Chile, time of four and a half minutes. and their “decadent” coffee beans. When the tea has “drawn” it Talking about real tea though. Not may be poured into tea cups. Milk your fey teas like Jasmine, Alfalfa may be added as desired. Sugar is (only a weed after all) and dande out — white, brown or any color. lion, which is what you look at in Sugar, Orwell and his followers gardens. maintained, succeeds only in dimini They all have their places, but shing the flavor of the tea. Note that not as tea. Proper teas is what. Official teas so that after you’ve had milk is added to the tea and not in them, you know you’ve had a drink. any sense the other way around. Black stuff you can put milk in. Then it is drunk. Use china cups, Undershtand, as Cagney used to say. also. It is a delicate drink. Can you seriously conjure the queen drinking □ Scales ROSS HENRY exist. (There is no more terrifying position, particularly the works of assembled chair legs and were out Bechstein to stave o ff an attack o f CALES have been sliding sight than a Himalayan crown fire Beethoven. o f the salon and down the cor the acciaccaturas to which he was S throughout the world for at four thousand fathoms. Some Ludwig raced a whole stable of ridor before anyone could say prone. many years. Most people are times the flames leap from Col to sliding scales: major, minor, chro “ Jack Lowenbrau” . So you see, there is more to familiar with the sliding scale as a Col and then back again in a matic, harmonic and all the rest. Beethoven was furious. He be the sliding scale than the econ method o f computation: taxes, matter of seconds.) Usually he kept them under rated the stunned critics with omists would have us believe. In wages, prices, stagecoach fares Scale 30 feet, slide 20; scale 15 wraps, allowing only a few close every note on the keyboard, hurl addition, ask any professional and so on, but these areas o f feet, slide ten; that was the friends to view them, and then ing sonata after sonata out fisherman - one who really operation form only a part o f the monotonous pattern day after solely through an old U-boat peri through the window and into the knows his job - why some fish total activity o f the sliding scale. day, week after week, until Sir scope which he often happened to moonlight. “ Dumbkopfs”, he are easier to clean than others. Take the time Sir Edmund Edmund felt himself tensing up so have handy. screamed, hoeing savagely at the And in most countries the reply Hillary accompanied by Kanchen- much that he was forced to take a However, one evening while he first o f the season’s beet sprouting will be the same; because of the junga and a team o f loyal Yetis, breather - a short respite — to was strumming away at Lilli Mar through the carpet. “ Vy did you sliding scale, o f course. Why are and with but a meagre supply of enjoy, as it were, an idle to the lene with his tuba, entertaining a allow them to get away? By now some weighing-machines treacher K2 rations to sustain them, scaled north o f Katmandu. conclave o f music critics, disaster they will have found a haydn- ous underfoot? Same answer. and slid about the Western Cwm, That the scale in its various struck: several o f his sliding scales place, and I vill have to look for There is little doubt but that the Lhotse Face and all those forms is the basis o f western escaped from inside the piano them. Do you vant me to diaton the sliding scale has been with us, other icy, inhospitable places music is generally wellknown, but forte. Softly then loudly, before ic?” and will be with us, for a long where the scorching northerlies what might be fresh intelligence the horrified gaze o f the audience, So upset was the meister by time. blow continuously, the bush fires to some is the role the sliding they slid quickly to the floor, the incident that he developed a rage and life as we know it cannot scale has played in musical com arpeggioed in and out o f the severe eroica and had to take a TH E LIVING D A Y LIG H TS, November 6-12, 1973 — Page 20C MUSIC outside and plant beans music, lie down in the grass and make love Take the Dead music. To the Wall! As we hover on the no-man’s- land between nationalism and in BERLIN: Lou Reed (RCA “ You can hit me all you want to, ternationalism, perhaps we could APLI-0207). but I dont love you any more”. to the sunshine make the appropriate gesture and ERLIN is one o f the few T he detached narration is adopt one o f the songs from this conceptual rock and roll unnerving on this and the album as our national anthem. B albums to really work. Each following songs, as each records They’re easy to sing along with song adds to the pattern of the mounting destructiveness o f and the sentiments are relevant. tragedy Lou Reed is weaving, yet the relationship. He speaks with Wake up to find out that you each song is able to stand alone. all the involvement o f a man in are the eyes o f the world On this one album, Reed permanent shock, a state which The heart has its beaches, its manages to convey, in his sinister Reed’s curiously laconic nasal homeland and ports o f its own. New York style, every sick and voice lends itself to readily. Wake up to find out that you sad aspect of a fractured The Kids carefully lists her are the song that the morning relationship. Not a very pleasant sins, slurring from “ the cheap brings concept perhaps, and open - as is officers who would stand there The heart has its seasons, its anything innovative in pop music and flirt in front o f me” to "the evenings and songs o f its own. - to the label pretentious. girlfriend in from Paris” - all Let’s face it, grand finals would be Somehow however, he pulls it reasons why they are now “ taking far more liberated and honest off. The album opens to a her children away” . The lover occasions after an opening like haunting 1930s piano, with a makes little comment on this that. background of drunken cabaret judgment, since his real However, there is no place for hubbub. “ In Berlin by the w a ll. . . preoccupation is not with his sentimentality in a record review. oh honey, it was paradise.” children but with: There are no doubt some serious Lady Day is the lady herself, “ That miserable rotten slut Dead freaks who will want to who, like Billie Holiday "had to go (who) couldnt turn anyone know if the new album represents in and sing” while "h e” said “ no, away.” The kids themselves only a significant advance over Horrie no, no” . Lou Reed sings much o f make their presence felt in the Dargie’s Barbecue Favorites vol the album in the role o f the male heartrending end o f the song, 1 & 2. The answer is yes. Anyone in the relationship and it is not where their screams and cries for who has enjoyed any o f the surprising that rumors have arisen Mummy are used as instruments Dead’s previous albums will also about the amount of biographical amid guitars, bass and appreciate this one. Wake o f the material in this album, for in a harmonium. Flood has a timeless quality to it. sense it is far more comforting to It’s been done before, I know. believe that Reed writes from Kamahl even used a real kids choir have made serious attempts to There are musical references back THE GRATEFUL DEAD: WAKE experience than to recognise the on 100 Children, but this time the com e to terms with studio record to the early Anthem for the Sun OF THE FLOOD (Grateful Dead really fine insight into the sick producer manages to put the fear ing in solo albums, and Wake o f and Aoxam oxoa albums, but it Records, GD 01) and jealous part o f human nature o f God into the listener before the Flood benefits from this ex retains the easy, unpretentious feel of their more recent work. It that he has. you have time to mock. HE Grateful Dead is above perience. In Lady Day we see the The Bed is the place where all else a consistent band. There is something about the is above all an optimistic record, T beginnings o f the relationship, “ she lay her head” , where “ our They established their identity Grateful Dead which gives their the general message being that no with a slightly awesome view of children were conceived” and and musical style in the hippy era music a link with Australia, but I matter how bad things get, if you keep on pushing, and recognise the extroverted lady from her “ where she cut her wrists that odd o f San Francisco and they have have never been able to quite put admirer. and fateful night” . In a sense he successfully weathered the trials my finger on just what it is. bad luck for what it is, humanity Men o f Good Fortune is feels revenged: and uncertainties which have be Maybe it’s something to do with will ultimately prevail. enough to tell us that the narrator “ I would never have started if set their people. the fact that California has gum Readers of TLD who are not doesnt really care about anything I’d known They have become, without trees; maybe it is the lack o f familiar with the group should not at all, though he ruminates loosely That it’d end this way really trying, a band o f interna polish in the Dead’s music, a feel wary about buying their rec on good fortune as opposed to But funny thing, I'm not at all tional stature and they have also, rawness which is quite gentle in its ords. The average person will find “ poor beginnings” . It is the least sad” to some degree, been responsible way, but is thoroughly uncom that it takes a few tries to get o ff essential song on the album — nice T h e eerie 2 0 0 1 ty p e for the renaissance which has been promising ; maybe it is because the on them, but don’t be put off, it’s enough, but it does little more synthesiser ending finally gives slowly revitalising the US west Dead play strictly outdoors music, worth it in the end. Dead freaks than set the rather detached and way to a Somewhere Over The coast for the past 12 months or and always manage to sound are by and large an approachable sinister tone for Reed as narrator. Rainbow beginning and Sad Song so. slightly inappropriate in a living bunch, who welcome any op Then Lady Day becomes confirms the relief - she wasnt This is their tenth album, the room. portunity to help the new chum. first recorded in the studio since I have been trying to work out Local Distributors, W.E.A. as Caroline in Caroline says (1) far Lady Day, a Germanic Queen or American Beauty, which was re just what kind o f setting they sured me that they were releasing removed from the stage now, right Mary Queen o f Scots, leased three years ago. They are, envisaged this album would be a new Grateful Dead record some into the bedroom. "Just shows how wrong you “ Caroline says that I’m just a primarily, a performing band, and played in. You can’t dance to it. time round the middle of next can be” "I’m gonna stop wasting my they have been generally dis On the other hand it makes you month, though they confessed toy, She wants a man, and not just appointed with what they have feel restless, even a little guilty if that they didn’t know what it was time, "Som ebody else would have been able to achieve in the studio. you just lie back and try to get called. In the meantime the bur a b oy ” and what is more she says “ she’ll However, since American Beauty into it. When it comes down to it, geoning import shops of the major broken both her arms.” go and get it, catch as catch can” , And dilemma thus resolved, both Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir it’s work music — put the speakers capitals should be able to supply your needs (with superior Ameri though she’s still at this stage, his Reed takes over the words Sad “ Germanic Queen” . In Candy Song from the choir, transforming Sun Books Pty Ltd can pressings - so much for na tionalism). Says as from the days o f the them from a meaningful presents - R O B KING Velvet Underground, Reed uses statement to a nice happy the device of developing the story Nilsen-like chant, a great ending Russia’s Greatest Living Poet - In Person □ line through reported speech, so for any rock song. hot oft the airwaves...... that in the listener he develops an It is a great relief to be let YEVTUSHENKO intimacy of “you, me and her”. down gently because it hasnt been , . S F U N N Y P IC T (j Simple enough, but very effective an easy ride. < S > ^ ^ a large ridiculous in the narration o f a story such as As with Reed’s Transformer, ^ rainbow of eastern this. no effort has been spaied in j australian pop poetry Oh Jim is one o f the strongest achieving the desired musical songs on the LP, with some fine effect. Each backing musician - drumming from Ainsley Dunbar. and they include Jack Bruce In this song the “ toy’s” position is (bass), Ainsley Dunbar (drums) examined; his two bit friends - and Stevie Winwood (organ & “ They put you on the stage, they harmonium) stands out brilliantly thought it’d be good for a laugh” , on his own, and musically there is and through this he divines a cure room on the album for them to For two nights only. all for “ When you’re filled up to do this without it resulting in a Thursday & Friday 8 & 9 here with hate” . . . “ Beat her “ London Super Star Session” . November — 8.15 p.m. black and blue and get it At least get hold o f a copy and At the Great Hall straight.” With its driving chorus listen to it once. Perhaps that will and gentle rocking ending, this National Gallery of Victoria. be enough, but give it a chance. It song demonstrates Reed's original shows just how much o f a punch a feel for and interpretation of record can pull. Boat w w at Celebrity Services, Myers, M.S.D., and Hotel Send T o : T o m ato Press P.O. Box 61 6, pre-Bowie rock and roll. MARGARET MACINTYRE Aurtnlia. Phone Bookings: 63 1150 - Group concessions $2.00 Glebe 2037, NSW Next time Caroline Says (2) it only - Celebrity Services (including Postage) is “ as she gets up o ff the floor” , □ P*e 22 — TM E LIVING DAYLIGHTS.November 6-12, 1*73 MUSIC she's got personal problems, so States) straight away. They like they’re being looked after. Unlike we’re trying to keep it quiet.” different things over there and it men prisoners who leave their “ Does she or does she not sing takes a while to find out what children with their wives. Women songs like I am Woman?" they are. Yes o f course it’s hard - prisoners have different problems “ Well o f course but...” to get on the plane ‘somebody’ that have been neglected for too “ Will she be interviewed by and to get out o f it ‘nobody’ - long. I think it’s wrong that w om any female journalists?” it’s a psychological trauma.” en should be jailed for prosti “ I dare say they will send a “That I am Woman song - I tution .. .’’ woman to interview her.” wrote it myself and Roy Morgan Whereupon her husband winds “ Yes, but will they send a worked with me on the lyrics. At a firm strong arm around her feminist journalist?” the time I'd been singing a lot and waist and introduces her to an “Now look, I’ve told you I I wanted to write a song that other set o f joum os for their can’t help you - anyway I dont meant something to me: and token five minute round of ques have the authority to send out that’s what came out of it.” tions. Smiles all round. All so invites.” “ Yes I’ m interested in the friendly, so forced and so well So he gives me the name o f the womens movement. I started a managed. She’s lucky to have such guy who does. He's nice: He says I consciousness-raising group in LA a husband: “ I owe a lot to him for can com e to the press conference. a couple o f years ago. I just my success.” All that patriarchal bureaucracy helped out with lectures and stuff. Ah well, credit where credit is (her husband is her personal man I didnt do any of the organising.” due. But what about the guy who ager), and behind it all such a “I do quite a lot of concerts wrote the lyrics for I am Woman diminutive, strong-styled vocalist. for these sort o f groups. Last year and worked on it with her? Roy The reception is the usual piss- I did a concert for the prisoners Morgan reckons he got $2000 out up scene with about 50 people. on Terminal Island in California. o f the deal. He reckons he is owed One hour later (through a haze of The audience response is very $60,000 more. scotches and brandy dries) Helen immediate. I like doing that kind Still Helen Reddy goes on, Reddy plus husband are regally o f work. riding high from one scene to the announced into the room. She next, whopping out music to “ I’ m also interested in women looks drawn and haggard and em prisoners and the oppressed. Her prisoners. Women prisoners have barrassed. concert was scheduled for the special problems. You see, when After the obligatory polite following night. I didnt go in case they go to prison they leave their handclaps layers o f interviewers she sang that song . . . Get Steady, Reddy, kids behind. They dont know form concentric circles round her. what happens to them or how Then she is spun by her husband- JEAN BUCKLEY manager to the cooler, less con Go Going, Gone scientious journos. She seems a bit Clifford Hocking and Gregory Yount presen fazed but the grin is set hard: she has the makings o f a good AM woman — I am in liamson’s, “ the invitations have socialite. SU M DUSTV vincible: So sings Helen already gone out to the press.” I wind my way over. She’s Reddy.1 She sounds like my kind "Can’t you add one more to talking about Australian audiences o f woman. So I hassled to get a 15 the list?” and the shortcomings of indige vith CAPTAIN MATCHBOX WHOQPEE BAND minute interview. “ Sorry, it’s gonna be a small nous superstardom: “ The problem “ So sorry” , says her public personal affair,” he says. “Only with making it here first is that <«__AS BROOKS HA. - ast ivieit relations officer from J. C. Wil the major press will be there — you can’t make it over there (the ■to '.30 p.m >uNDAv NT riwBER 11 ,* BOOKING: MSB nei «uv r.hllUre' HIS peculiar song predates Don T McLean’s Vincent by maybe ten years. I learned it from Danny O’ROURKE’S Gillespie some time ago, but I have no idea who wrote it. For those who can’t EUPHORIA RECORDS read music, the tune is Down in the Valley. 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POSTCODE ...... heads point-ed up- woreis T H E LIVING D A Y LIG H TS , November 6-12, 1973 — Page 23 The first listing of the week’s events in Melbourne. Next week, Sydney too. (Other grand metropolises later.) MELBOURNE MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181. SYDNEY MONITOR: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. O. Box 23, Surry Hills. Listings are free. Copy closes Thursday before publication. V\o**>0cr\m i A o n MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC J MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Cup Rock, Sherbert, Ariel, T. Rex, Colored Balls, Fes Groups, Ayres Rock, Mat Groups, Madder Lake, Madder Lake,Groups, Groups, Mackenzie Theo Madder Lake, Mississippi, tival Hall. thew Flinders. Broadmeadows Town Hall. Canapas. ry, Teasers, 10.30-11.30 John Graham and Black- Mighty Kong, Redhouse Colored Balls, Penthouse Ariel, Fat Alroy, Matthew Sid Rumpo, Teasers. pm. spur, Festival Hall. Roll Band, Whitehorse Hotel. Flinders. Colored Balls, Ayres Rock, Fantasy, Croxton Park. I M ighty Kong, Station HoteL Buster Brown, Parade Col Big Push, Whitehorse Myriad, Chelsea City Hall S lim D u sty , Captain » Hotel. Red House Roll Band, lege, Bundoora. Hotel. Colored Balls, Canapas. M atchbox, Dallas Brooks Light Brigade, Croxton John Rupert and the Croxton Park. Slice, Warren Ponds Hotel, Threshold, Atlas, Don Hall. 2.30pm. Park. Henchmen, Croxton Park. Sherbert, Sundowner, Geelong. caster Town Hall. Mighty Kong, Dendy Geelong. Billy Thorpe, Tank, Ex CARLTON Billy Thorpe & Aztecs, Mis John Rupert and the Cinema, Brighton. Mississippi, Trak Centre. change Hotel. The La De FAIR sissippi, Croxton Park. Henchmen, Whitehorse Mississippi, Matthew Flind B u shw ackers and Bul- Mississippi, Penthouse. Das, International Hotel. Hotel. ers. FILM lockies, Polaris Inn. Mississippi, Moe City Hall. Poetry reading, Aboriginal La De Das, St Albans Big Push, Croxton Park. La De Das, Mississippi, ‘ Les C ousins’ Claude Frank Traynor, Folk. Hotel. Mighty Kong, John Dances, Players Caravan Tank, Upp, Red House Brooklyn Drive-In, Brook Chabrol, State Film Cen John Graham & Blackspur, Graham & Blackspur, Teas (5.30). Roll Band, Blaises. lyn. tre, 1 MacArthur St, East; DRAMA WORKSHOP Station Hotel. ers. Alan Lee (6.30), Carlton La De Das, Station Hotel, Melbourne. Admission by^ Drama and Creative Move Ariel, Sherbert, Matthew 1 Gardens (Nth. end o f Exhi 2—5 pm Brian Brown Quartet, subscription only — $10' ment — casual and interest Flinders. I bitiori Gardens). Mighty Kong, La De Das, Commune. inc. NFTH membership ed in new ideas, 7.30 on, Trad. Folk & Experimental Matthew Flinders. Danny Spooner and Gor from NFTA. Claremont Theatre, South Melbourne new music en (1.00am). (See late entries Open air recital, John don MacIntyre, Frank Yarra. semble, Commune, 60c. for details o f artists), Com Matthews (Didgeridoo) Contemporary Folk Com Traynor’s, 100 Lt. Lons MEETINGS mune, 60c. 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KIDS FILM FILM Claremont Theatre, George MEETINGS ‘Mother Joan o f the ‘Kwaidan’ Kobayashi % and Dragon 1, $1 adults, Margaret Roadknight, Out Australian Science Educa Angels’ ‘Jerzy Kawalero- (Japan 3 hrs). Union The 50c Kids. 2pm. post Inn, 8pm—12am. 60c. tion P roject Display, wisz’, Union Theatre 8pm. atre 8pm. (If no power FILM 7.30pm, Diamond Valley (based on ‘The Devils of strike). ‘Shoot the Pianist’ Truf MEETINGS Learning Centre. London’ — Aldous Huxley) faut, and ‘Kanal’ Andrzej Talk b y Graeme Pearl on Tenancy Union — meeting (if no power strike). Wajda, 8pm Union Theatre the Alexander Technique to discuss forming tenants (If no power strike). Natural Hygiene Associa union against bad land MEETINGS tion, Friends House, 631 THEATRE lords. Undergraduates Australia—India Assoc. Orrong Rd, Toorak. 7.30. Lounge, Melbourne Uni ‘ India Tod^y’ — talk by Late Supper Show (11 pm) Union. Sponsored by Link- Miss Vinola Thauer 8pm., — Great Stumble Forward, Up. 631 Orrong Rd, Toorak. S k y h o o k and friends. Orientation Night on Link- Food, dancing, etc. Digger Up. 51.7425, 59 St John benefit, $1 or donation. St, Prahran. Pram Factory, 325 Drum mond St., Carlton, i 347.7133. air alone. Your herbal tea crop has failed and no one will buy your male goats. You have read that the up and HCW TO GET THERE coming thing in continental communes STEPHEN WALL MUSIC is soft technology. You are not into a Hall o f St John, Buckley St, Essen don; St Vincents Hall, Woodlands St, HIS COLUMN aims at exploring ing press go hand in hand. A fine fully integrated iron and steel works yet but you have to do something, like Strathmore; Sundowner Inn, Cnr the nooks and crannies o f Aus example of people working together Alma Hotel, 32 Chapel St, St Kilda, T quick, as money is running out. Dandenong & Seaford Rds, Sea ford, tralian and overseas information sysfor local reform is a Sydney group 94.6348; Beaumaris Civic Centre, Re What to do? I dont know. In the 786.5211; Swinburne Tech, John St, tems and printouts. I’m assuming that called Women Active Politically. For serve Rd, Beaumaris; Blaizes, Moub- meantime I suggest you fantasise on Hawthorn, 81.0301; Tavern Folk all information is tainted by special those interested in what might be done ray St, Prahran; Broadmeadows the possibility o f setting up an industry Union Hotel, Cnr Fenwick & Amess interests and that utility is more impor with a small press a subscription to Town Hall, Pascoe Vale Rd, Broad suited to your environs, assisted by the Sts, North Carlton, 347.4975; tant than the source. Local Issue, their local monthly on meadows (opp. Station); Centenary New South Wales government. Teasers, 355 Exhibition St, City; k k k Hunters Hill, would be good value. It Hall, Cox Road, Nor lane, Geelong; THE National Library of Australia This government is rumortd to be Tankerville Arms, Cnr Nicholson & aims at enabling readers to be better Chelsea City Hall, Station St, publishes a book each year called interested in decentralisation, not /our Johnson Sts, Carlton; Waltzing informed voters, to provide access to Chelsea; Canapas, Box Hill Town Current Australian Serials. It has great kind but their kind. To keep your Matilda, Cnr Springvale & Heatherton public information at local State and Hall, Box Hill; Commune Coffee potential as an info source. It is “ a dream rolling, write and ask them to Rds, Springvale, 546.1333; Windsor Federal levels and to follow develop Lounge, 580 Victoria St, North Mel selected list of Australian serials in put you on their list for New South Regis, Chapel St, Prahran; Whitehorse ments in education, aboriginal advance bourne; Coburg Town Hall, Bell St, print and aims to provide the necessary Wales Horizons. This bi-monthly will Hotel, 274 Whitehoise Rd, Nuna ments and womens rights. 350.1611; Croxton Park, 607 High details to intending subscribers. It cov tell you how to increase your profits wading, 878.5533; University Hotel, The October issue deals with alter St, Preston, 480.2233; Dallas Brooks ers all subject areas, the basis for and at the same time, feel the soil Cnr Lygon & Grattan Sts, Carlton, native transport, council news, local Hall, 300 Albert St, East Melbourne, selection being the reference and re between your toes. 347.1040; Village Green Hotel, Cnr candidate appraisals and communal liv 419.2288; Dan O'Connell Hotel, cnr search value of articles within each Inside this printed gem you will read Springvale & Fern tree Gully Rds, Mt ing in the suburbs. Princess & Canning Sts, Carlton; Easy publication” . More to the point it is a o f those who have successfully trans Waverley, 560.8400. Grass roots info at $2.00 for ten Rider, Whitehorse Hotel, Whitehorse list o f magazines with subscription ported their worries from the cities to issues. Local Issue, 10 Lloyd Avenue, Rd, Nunawading; Exchange Hotel, details. the country. It is not written for you, Hunters Hill 2110. 1281 Nepean Highway, Cheltenham; FILMS If your interests are aroused by the Blue, but if you are really serious Festival Hall, Dudley Street, West thought o f 1577 Australian periodicals and/or desperate, spin them a line and Melbourne; Footscray YMCA, Essex Melb Uni Union, Royal Parade, Park- on topics such as food technology, HE MAJOR trading banks in send it to The Editor, NSW Horizons, St, West Footscray; Grove dale Hotel, ville; Carlton Theatre, Faraday St, gardening, films, fashion, demography, Australia publish a number of Box 4169, GPO, Sydney 2001. Some Torquay Rd, Geelong, 43.2814; Gor Carlton; Trak, 445 Toorak Rd, zoos, water supplies, politics and elec Tuseful monthly and quarterly magathing tells me that they w on’t cater to don Institute of Technology, Fen Toorak, 24.9333; Athenaeum, 188 tronics, then this book is for you. It is interstate requests. zines. The two that I receive are the wick St, Geelong; International Collins St, City, 63.3831; Dental available at any office o f the Australian Bank o f NSW Review and the ANZ * * * Hotel, Sharps Rd, Airport West, T heatre, Grattan St, Carlton; Government Publishing Service or send Business Indicators. Review normally HE New Journalist is by far the 338.1300; Matthew Flinders Hotel, Ormond Hall, Moubray St, Prahran; $1.50 plus 60 cents postage to AGPS has a few articles of interest to budding best information source on Aus Warrigal Rd, Chadstone, 56.4004; Prahran College, High St, Prahran, Mail Order Sales, PO box 84, Canberra, T economists; the bods behind the Busi tralian media I have seen. It is written Outpost Inn, 52 Collins St, City, 51.4676; Diamond Valley Learning ACT 2600. ness Indicators get their rocks o ff each and published by dissatisfied media 329.9127; Penthouse Hotel, Cnr Centre, 104 Main St, Greensborough, k k k month drawing graphs on investment, freaks from the straight press, TV, and Barry s Rd & Maffra St, Broad 435.9060; Prince Philip Theatre, WE SEEM to be witnessing a new overseas trade, unemployment, housing radio oligopoly and is always good for meadows, 309.3211; Polaris Inn, 551 School of Architecture, Melbourne interest in local politics in Sydney. statistics. You can find yourself on the a bit of inside info. It consistently Nicholson St, North Carlton; Power Uni, Parkville; McClelland Gallery, Have heard it is the same in the mailing list for both these special inter features articles on community access, house. Lakeside Drive, Albert Park Studio Park, Boundary Rd, Frank- southern states. I had the feeling some est mags either by asking over the TV, worker participation, the press Reserve, Melbourne, 51.7066; Pros ston. thing was bound to happen in this counter or by writing to their respec barons, the AJA, and politics. Besides pect Hill Hotel. 299 High St. Kew, country when I read o f ex Panthers tive head offices. Both are free and the it’s exciting to read! Four bucks buys 86.7267; Q Club, Kew Town Hall, and Chicago Eighters extolling the vir price is right. If you know o f similar you 12 copies, more or less monthly. Cotham Rd, Kew ; Station Hotel, tues o f working thru the System. publications, let me know. Box K750, Haymarket 2000. Greville St, Prahran; St Albans Hotel, Well, it’s happening and I dont care * * * McKechnie St, St Albans; St Peter's, really — given the incompetents and OK, so you are at last out o f the 244 Centre Rd. East Bentleigh; St 1 featherbedders in power at the local decaying city, settled on to a 17 acre THAT’S it for this week. If you have a Therese's, Florence St. Essendon; level at present. river fronted, heavily wooded, black favorite information source, let others Local political power and the print- soiled commune. Now what do ya do? know by sending me the details. And You have realised by now,-that man remember, $1.40 buys you Alternative does not live by bean sprouts and fresh Pink Pages No. 2 144 pages o f info freakery. Send to APP2, PO box 8 / Surry Hills 2010. Page 24 T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , N o ve m b e r 6-12, 1973 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 6-12, 1973 -Page 25 L Going to Do It Yourself Kung Fu NEXT WEEK in Ground PETER H. EDW ARDS h r e w d i e s have got it There is probably no such thing as Sworked out that they can a cheap farm. live o ff the technological society Suppose you buy bush. By the while enjoying the benefits of time you’ve spent months clear rural life. Unfortunately, they are ing, months scrounging, building hooked on the over-producing shelters and fencing, you will find society. Without the buying you have not produced much that power generated by an exploita you can eat or sell. Instead o f a tive econom y there wouldnt be decent sized cash outlay you have those very convenient injections spent your precious time (which is o f cash. I mean, if everyone was worth several dollars a day to you making their own sandals where on the labor market) and you are would you be? still having to spend on essential One thing must be said for the equipment and food. A higher Earthlings: they are esthetic. They initial payment could be cheaper appreciate the smell o f soil, the in the long run AND make you touch o f natural fibres and the self-sufficient sooner. vital flavor o f unprocessed food. Another thing: why do you Alas! Such sensitivity bespeaks an think the place is in bush? The intelligent and alert mind. A mind best land was cleared years ago which needs stimulus, conversa (together with a lot that should tion, controversy, contact with never have been cleared). Instead other minds . . . whereas hoeing, of chopping down more trees, weeding, fencing and moving ir how about you ecofreaks restor rigation pipes are such bloody ing Nature on, say, a rundown boring tasks. property which is livable and use- Animals mean fresh milk, eggs, able but needs some loving care? butter. They also mean substitut Naturally, you w on’t want to ing the nine to five grind with a spend money on a highly develop six to six grind. Now this is ed property full o f stock and another reason why natural living improvements you don’t really enthusiasts find themselves mov need. What should you look for ing back to the ratrace. Rats get then? It is worth considering that to like racing, see? Of course the some rather decrepit farms are not problem of lack of mental stimu ecologically damaged. That is, the lus could be overcome by having a soils and vegetation may be in commune. This also gets over the good condition. The farmer may problem o f shortage o f manpower have quit because o f bad eco and skills. But who knows a com nomic conditions, not bad hus mune that has worked? And I bandry. dont mean for six months. But how are you going to do Did I say esthetic? Well maybe what he failed to do? Yes, you ’re this is an exaggeration. An ap going to live simply. Economics preciation o f the beauty o f Nature dont bother you. Well, how requires an appropriate response. I about rates and freight charges? mean if you are going to live with Somehow, sometime, you are go Nature why build the shabbiest ing to have to draw up a balance • Founded by a woman, popularised by Bruce Lee, Kung Fu is not what it and most garish o f manmade sheet, so it will pay to start some seems. The Living Daylights presents a pictorial guide to the basic stances & structures? Yes, those dome calculations before you buy. tactics of this martial art, prepared with loving care by Lee's star pupil. homes are cheap and horrible. But So before you start drawing • Next week we declare war against the car. The mounting dossier of horror look at any back-to-Nature setup. the plans for your “ hogan” or atrocities can no longer be kept from the public. Honestly, did you ever see any whatever, think carefully about thing more like the town dump? the type of country you want to • The politics of despair. . . gang banging Askin & Hills. And isn’t it funny how these wire, live in, its climate, soils, distance string and galvanised iron vir from rail, schools and hospitals. tuosos always want to get them How will you get your produce to selves a piece o f "untouched” market? What are the local prob bush to start up their ramshackle lems. Is the district overrun with enterprises? 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INCREASF PENIS SIZE INC Box facility (2 0 c) ...... $_ Dalliance respondents must include LESBIAN SEX Repeat/ dual publication ad s ...... $_ $2 payment with each reply when sending to INC for forwarding to BEAUTIFUL MAN Cash/Cheque/Postal Order for TOTAL $ - advertisers. Non-complying letters are destroyed. REMITTANCE ENCLOSED ADULTS ONLYVi $ ...... POST CODE...... Please note: D-NOTICE COPY WILL ONLY BE PUBLISHED IF SUBMITTED ON THIS FORM Page 26 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 6-12, 1973 LETTERS & THINGS eral views about kids — except for one Taking a little or two minor points (have 2 PhDs [ so far] out of 7 kids), so here's one theory down your gumboot, mate. knowledge Maybe you just dont mix with the THANKS for your good remarks on right crowd. I must be honest and say I Divine Light Mission. But please dont dont care much for other people’s kids go on about suitcases of jewels, gold — not so much the kids themselves, as teeth eta People still believe you if the big nuclear family bit. It must be you tell them things like that hell down there with no separate iden And also, there is no catatonia or tity for each individual. This is very indifference likely here, brother, much a learned technique — to estab though I can understand your fears. lish separateness within the group — Check out Divine United Organisation, but try to encourage other groups in being launched in less than a month at this, and you face an uphill battle. Millennium '73 in Houston, Texas. It Again, not so much with the kids, but will coordinate the thousands and the parents, who want to see some thousands now working really hard thing for their time and money — this around the world to bring peace to this means love and dependence. planet. There are travel services, bulk Your hypothesis is correct in the food, printing, clothing, filming, con cosmic purpose of kids. Despite this, struction, biodegradable products, and the birthrate races madly upwards. lots of other trips going. And no one is Seems you’ll have to go through it, making money out of it, not even Guru Harry, like pimples and wet-dreams, Maharaj Ji. overly indulgent distractions which we playing, retired, hiding, overseas, conveniently ignored the wishes and trampolining and tripping — it’s all part After all the gurus followed by our once dug, I think that Guru Maharaj Ji straight — anything but what they needs of the majority of the Papua- o f a big process. beloved, nebulous counter culture, it’s is the epitome of all the purest desires were, and anything but together. So New Guinea population. Maybe you should happen along so good to have a permanent one. I we had for better individuals and a what do we do? Read The Living Having recently returned after a here sometime, to my human group, mean the others were really good, but better world. I dont think this because D aylights? Definitely! But also take term in Papua-New Guinea as a “ ruth and we would reassure you — that here Maharaj Ji has that special something, I’m some kind of fanatic, or because the knowledge ... go on. less, brutal, etc.” kiap (pidgin term for it’s bows and arrows, not araldite. that special knowledge which tunes my consciousness-raising and social JOHN MACGREGOR, Patrol Officer), during which I did a Yours in sincerity, one in oh so blissfully . . . quite ex awareness have gone off at a sort of Sydney, NSW great deal of travel by foot and none BETH, quisite. So good to be going up. You strange Indian tangent. But because at whatsoever by sports car, I would be Sydney, NSW can rationalise a thousand reasons to the depth of my despair about what I the first to agree that administrative do with crutches and security blankets and we could get together — “ the Casting the errors a-plenty have been made and of an unarguable philosophy, a big Nobel facts already fading optimism of a genera that a system more oriented towards organisation, and such things. But real tion” (if I’ve got the phrase right) first germ traditional values is required. BJECT STRONGLY LIVING ly the knowledge just gives you that far which R. N. spoke of at the OZ trials — DAYLIGHTS REFERENCE IN Medieval Europe there were no However, before a society can be O out, active, loving, warm, Kelloggs Corn at the realisation that we just werent MY RANTINGS GET YOUR FACTS processed foods, no chemical ferti changed it must first exist in a viable Flakes feeling 24 hours a day. That’s STRAIGHT HAPPENS THAT I NOM doing it, that it was on ly our minds, lisers, no pills or injections. Everything form and the creation of a Papua-New why Divine Light Mission is such a when removed from the matrix of INATED WHITE FOR NOBEL APOL was pure and organic, including the Guinea society is still in the balance. good investment. OGY REQUIRED social reality, that, briefly, were experi plague germs which killed 75,000,000 As an artificial and fragile colonial Y ou just watch to see if Maharaj Ji encing any sort of Utopia — at this people in about four years. While the creation Papua-New Guinea is unlikely MAUREEN FREER, and his men end in “an egocentric almost numbing realisation, Guru Ma rich ones were escaping to their towers to survive as a going concern unless the BRISBANE indifference to everyday reality, an haraj Ji found me. on the Rhine or their remote Greek various secessionist groups are willing absolute abandoning-of responsibility Isnt this what the counter-culture islands, where they could drink their to forget their ‘I’m all right, Jack’ Mystic- Marxism to anything outside one’s own precious has been waiting for? I think it is, to a alcohol, eat their psylocibin mush ambitions. In a society in which educa self” . Just watch! H thank you! Rarely does any detail. rooms, and slurp wine-softened pearls tion is accorded an almost mystical When DLM is examined, and the Notice how there really isnt a coun publication send my spirits soar out of lead goblets, the simple significance, the opinions and ideas of O horror of the ego at devotion to this 15 ter-culture consciousness any more. ing as TLD did on Tuesday. peasants, the Na Cl of the earth, were the educated young are given far more year old is overcome, satisfaction The Alternative now comprise the I was desperately trying to recover dying like flies. credence than would normally be the usually ensues. The “ matrix of social younger brothers and sisters o f the old from regurgitating all I know about In the 18th century, 60,000,000 case in a more sophisticated situation. realities” you spoke of is recognised gang (getting their organics together in Yeats and the “ correctness” of lan Europeans died of smallpox. Smallpox If these young fortunates actually and catered fo r b y Maharaj Ji. the Adelaide hills). The old gang’s guage forms, and the little exchange kills very few today. Maybe the vaccine assist in the creation o f a hom ogeneous Allowing for the absence of certain members are working, writing, dead, between Ruth Gregory, Grant Evans, (a dose of cowpox) works. It’s better society in Papua-New Guinea then its Syd Shelton and Richard w hat’ s-his- to run the infinitesimal risk of dying survival as a functional unit is possible; name did a lot for my mind. But I felt Sexist Ads from the vaccine than have a much if not, then the selfish and secessionist that a few things were left unsaid. r h higher chance of dying in the event of tendencies exhibited by Hannet, I wish that someone would explain Kasaiwapalova and company (which this magazine an epidem ic. to me what marxism means, or admit, . The number of “wonder drugs” on didnt include Josephine Hayah for I has bOpoges as suspect, that it doesnt mean a the market is going up. The average life some strange reason) as lauded by the bloody thing. I really don’t see how of the'very best span is going up. Is this because more author will almost certainly result in one can base one’s outlook on life on people than ever are follow in g nature’ s political chaos in an independent state. photography & one man’s treatment of some specific rules? Because less people are eating If the Night of the Long Knives, problems. drawings of the unspoilt food than in 1900? which creates such lip-smacking ardor Similarly with fascism, communism, I agree with parts o f the article; that in Mr Stocks, ever eventuates then the male nude, mysticism, feminism: all meaningless drug companies put money before peo ultimate losers will not be the few bullshit. How about talking about spec printed on quality ple, that too many people are com hapless whites executed but the people ific concepts and people instead of art paper pulsive pill-takers. But that “forget of Papua-New Guinea as a whole. existing “isms”. about the germs” stuff is crap. LYELL SAYER, And I think that RG, GE and SS’s BACTERIA BILL Croydon, Vic total rejection of mysticism results for mmediOfe delivery send$600to— from an inaccurate conception of a collection of male nudes for adults only what’s going on. Certainly organised CHRISTOPHER WILDE PRODUCTIONS. Niugini Gum boot mysticism, headed by some smartarse PQ Box 5 0 Terrey His. N S W 2 0 8 4 nonsense children who claims to have all the clues, DEAR Harry Gumboot, egotrippers like Guru Maharaj Ji telling AN STOCKS' Niugini bides its I am 49 years old, travelled and me how to run my life, is of no real use to anyone. Unless they’re looking for SMALL PENIS? IMPOTENT? I time was the most emotional childful with many friends, few re THE VACUUM ENLARGER GUARANTEES and over simplified piece I have read in sponsibilities, and an inflated sense of an easy way out PENILE ENLARGEMENT. many a long day. curiosity, eta But . . . this morning I watched the Apparently intoxicated with the Most of my approximate peer sun rise. Talk to me about marxism or SEND STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE TO: rationalism then and I’d kick your RICHARDS LABS, romantic aspects of violent revolution groups are proud parents, and I CAN Box 279, P. O. G R A N V IL L E , 2142. to avenge the real (and fancied) wrongs understand why! Their kids are mirrors teeth in (figuratively speaking). of the young educated minority, he has of themselves. 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