Dec. 1959, Vol. 05 No. 12

HOLIDAY FICTION BY ARNELL LARSEN — WHEN I AM WITH YOU

KENNETH TYNAN OF LONDON WRITES ABOUT THE BEARDED BEATS ~ O F SAN FRANCISCO

REVIEWING THE BIOGRAPHY OF MARCEL PROUST — FUIFIUMENT IN TIME

PUBLICATIONS DAY SEMINAR • BANNED BOOKS LISTED

DECeMBER 19S9 • COMPLETING OUR FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION HOLIDAY FICTION BY ARNELL LARSEN — WHEN I AM WITH YOU

KENNETH TYNAN OF LONDON WRITES ABOUT THE BEARDED BEATS — OF SAN FRANCISCO f

I REVIEWING THE BIOGRAPHY OF MARCEL PROUST — FUimUNENT IN TIME

PUBLICATIONS DAY SEMINAR • BANNED BOOKS LISTED

officf Of the bo add Of6 Di«fcro«s fllattactiinE ^oriEtg, 3nc. DECEfABER 1959 • COMPLETING 693 Mission Stroot — Sau Francisco _5, CalifoTnla OUR FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION SEXVAL VARIANTS FOUND ' ^ ■ n attacliln e IN ALL HUMAN SOCIETIES ‘ • ' , U ‘‘All societies have sexual devi-' EßEEWnEEXiy ates” and “ many heterosexuals are Founded in 1954-Fiiit Issue Jamuiiy 1955 classified in this group.” These two facts were noted in mid-October at a Volumes DECEMBER J959 Number 12 final session in a series of panel dis­ EStor cussions at San Jose (Calif.) State HAROLD L. CALL CONTENTS College on “ Sex and Moral Values,” sponsored by the Spartan YMCA on 2 - CALLING SHOTS

DONALD S. LUCAS m a t t a c h in e sem in ar r e p o r t the campus. 6 - WHEN I AM WITH YOU, story by Arnoll Larson Of the final session, the following Production Director TO APPEAR IN NEXT ISSVE HENRY FOSTER, JR. was reported in the SPARTAN DAILY IS - MATTACHINE SEMINAR SERIES PROGRAM A report on the December 5 second Trtaaurcr campus newspaper: 0 . CONRAD BOWMAN, JR. 17 - VIGILANTES OF THE NEWSSTANDS annual Publications Day which is an ‘‘Harold Call, publications director BditoHai Board GONZALO SEGURA. JR. IS - 'IMMORAL BOOKS’ LISTED event in the Mattachine Seminar Ser­ for the Mattachine Society at San CARL B. HARDING ies will appear in the January issue. DR. HENRI LORUER 23 - ‘RED-BLOODED MALE* FICTION CALLED Francisco, said that intercourse be­ MRS. LEAH GAILEY KEY TO YOUTH VIOLENCE The program for the event appears as tween married couples and autoerot­ WALLACE DE ORTEGA MAXEY a special ihserd in this issue, in­ P tych olofical Conaultauta icism are (legally) accepted, but that 2S - FULFILLMENT IN TIME, Angus Wilson cluding reports on some censorship DR. PHYLLIS C. KRONHAUSEN ‘almost any other sex act is a devia­ DR. EBERHARD W. KRONHAUSEN 2 7 - READERS WRITE activities in the West, and an editorial tion in the legal and moral sense iin against the *>anti-smut vigilantes, Pabllibed oMBdily by the Mana- 30 - BEARDING TNE BEATS, Konnoth Tynan our society. chioe Society, Inc., 693 Mlaaloa from the San Francisco Chronicle. St., Saa Francisco 3, Caliiotnia. “ Dr. Frances Underwood, cultural Telephone EXbrook 7-0773. Also coming in January will be a NEW YORK PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED-Rlehord C. anthropologist from Stanford Univer­ Copyright ¡959 hy the Mattachine Robortlollog Me D#, author of “ Voyogo from Losbotg" rundown of action in courts in many Society, tne. Fifth year of pmhUeao will oddrofi tho Now York Aroo Council of tho sity, said that ‘we don’t know of any tion. Mattachine Foundation, inc„ Motfochino Socloty on Docombor 17 of Proodom parts of the U. S., in which the laws eetah/iehed inI950at Loe Amgeieef societies which don’t have their de­ Mattachine Society formed in 1955 HouMg 20 We 40fh Ste, 8 pefn. His topic will bo "A passed as a result of the “decent viates. The American Indians have and chmtered a t non-profit, noth Psychoonolyst Looks ot Homosoxuolltye** This Is literature” pressure groups (mostly partiean educatiotral, retearch and opon to tho publice some of the most prudish attitudes tocial torvice corporation in Cnli- of Catholic Church origin) have been fornia. Pounded he the puhHc in- On Jonuory 14 (Thursdoy) tho Now York Aroo Coun­ toward sex,’ she said, while the Poly­ terent for purpote of providing Crse cil will prosont Ooergo Rundqulst» Exocutivo Dir* struck down as unconstitutional. An­ and accurate information loadirtg to octor of tho Now York Civil Ltbortlos Union, In on nesians have very casual attitudes. toiution of tex behavior prohlent, ovoning progrom, olse opon to tho .publlce PUos# other article will deal with the birth p»Heuiariythoteof the hoxrotexual “ ‘You’re not Polynesians,’ Dr. Ar­ coll tho Now YoHc offico of tho Socloty for iho loco- control issue now prominent in the adult. < turo Fallico, professor of philosophy tion of this program ond tho topic (WAtkins 4-7743)« news. The feature of the issue will The REVIEW i t avaiUhle on wtaay SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC FORUM on Jonuory 8, at San Jose State, told the group. V.5» newtttand» at 50c Per copy, be the first installment of an inter­ and hy tdhteripHon imailed in ot 8 p«me, will bo hold In o now locotlon to bo on- “ ‘You’re going to have to work out plain, tented envelope), Rntei in nouncode Plooso coll tho Son Francisco Aroo offieo esting and thoroughly scientific pa­ advance: 13 in U.S. sod posse*- oftor Docombor 26 for dotalls on this public forume your problems in this culture, with sions; S6 focei|n. per by Dr. Omer C. Stewart, anthro­ this set of values,’ he said. pologist of the University of Colo­ MATTACHINE AREA COUNCILS More than 100 young men and wo­ BOSTON 4, Mass.:P.O. Bos 1499 rado, on ‘‘Homosexuality’ Among the DENVER 6, Colo.: P. 0 . Box 7033. men attended the discussion. Also TeL FLocida 3-3438 (Secrecaiy) American Indians and Other Aborig­ present was a reporter from the San DETROIT 31, Mich.: P.O . B oil434 ADVERT1SEMEN19: Accepted oaty fron publisktrs and/ct anthocs LOS ANGELES 33, Calif.: P. 0 . of books: aaiaxloea; periodicals and bookaellets coocened with inal Peoples.” This paper was prer Box 1923, Jose Mercury, morning daily in the boooaexnal and ocher aexolotiM i tabjeccs. Rates opoa appllcatieo. seated as an address at the Matta­ NEW YORK 10. N.Y.: 1133 Bioad- city of 150,000, whose chief inter- way, Snite 304, Tel. WAckins 4-7743 MANUSCRIPTS: Oriflnal ardclea, ravieva, leccera and aicslBcaoc chine Society's Denver convention SAN FRANCISCO 3, Calif.: 693 opinion, and appropriate abort atocica aolicited for pnbUcatloo oo a (Continued on page i) Mission St., TeL EXbrook 7-0773 no-fee basis. Piense inelvde first claaa poscafé for teenra. in September. 2 mUttnfAinf. CALLING SHOTS which declared such reading had no ment (now under attack in the courts people to congregate-somewhere. (CottHnttttl /row pag» 2) actualbearingon juvenile delinquency of that state). While there are admit­ How much better to accept their con­ est was to interview the Mattachine (and certainly no more effect dian ted problems in regulating the be­ gregating, and aid all concerned to spokesman, since the Society at the stories of crime and violeiice on tele­ havior of customers—desirable and maintain proper public behavior stand­ time was involved in the election vision, because most delinquents do undesirable alike-in almost a ny ards so that no one is offended when campaign in San Francisco, 47 miles not read extensively anyway). Some place where alcoholic beverages are you look at things realistically. to the north, spokesmen have said that reading sold, the question behind the ques­ can often cut down violent behavior tion is this: If all such places cater­ COMMITTEE IN GERMANY SEEKS SEX LAW REVISION KNIGHTS OP COLUmUS outbursts by serving to furnish a ing to homosexuals, for instance, in SLAY SEX READING vicarious experience that substitutes a state like New York are closed, In West Germany this summer, a for actual anti-social acts. Finally, then where are the 1,000,000 or so penal law committee ("Grosse Stra- In September in Peoria, 111., the they point out, to forbid or deny only such predominantly homosexual per­ frechtskommission” ) voted 11-2 to Knights of Columbus declared war on makes the forbidden more desirable, sons (plus an easily equal number of abolish the punishment of homosexual newsstands and "rode into battle" and the young readers get it anyway. others proscribed) going to go if they behavior between consenting adults there to rid the city of literature Handle the problem in the home, the congregate? And where will a police in private. This action would super­ which they feared is corrupting youth. school and the church, these people force large enough to prevent their cede the "ill-famed” section 175 of Targets in the drive were such maga­ say. And most important of all, pro­ congregating come from? And who will the German penal code, which cor­ zines as Merttuud, Adam, Zest and vide the teenagers with a wholesome pay this force well enough to prevent responds to section 12 9B of the penal 160 additional titles. Also included and positive sex education in place , other evils from developing? And if code of Austria, a country where pun­ are 250 paperback book titles. Capt. of the morass of repressions, restric­ these questions are answered with ishment of homosexuals has also been Willard Koeppel of the Peoria Police tions and guilts they are bogged down workable solutions (insofar as the particularly severe in recent times. Department, a member of the K of C’s in today. liquor administrators are concerned) Research data on homosexuality literature clean-up committee, i s ■ j then what are w going to do about from a number of different sources, spearheading the drive on the premise the Constitution ,which guarantees including the Griffin Report of the that trash literature contributes to NEW YORK BARS HIT freedom of movement and lawful Roman Catholic Church in England, delinquency among young readers. Dr. BY UQUOR AUTHORITY , assembly? released in 1956, are said to have Walter Baer, Peoria psychiatrist, Owners of all restaurants, taverns New York—and all other large cities been instrumental in bringing the com­ called the magazines under attack and n i^ t clubs serving wine or liquor —are not unique in that they have mittee to its decision. This is tanta­ "caniers of the communicable dis­ in New York have been warned that “ gathering places” for homosexuals. mount to establishing in Germany a ease" of mental illness. But George catering to the patronage of prosti­ Residents in America’s largest city call for change of law similar to that E. Seidler of the Illinois News Ser­ tutes, sex deviates, hoodlums or have reported that more than 100 bars recommended by the Wolfehden Com- vice, opposes such censorship tac­ "others of bad reputation” will lead and restaurants catering to homosex­ mittee in England.______tics, and hopes that communities can to revocation of their licenses. A re­ uals exist there. Furthermore, to re­ WHAT SEX VARIATIONS ARE NORMAL? persuade publishers to exercise re­ port in New York Times recently told call a remark made personally by the This is answered in an unusuhl book you of closing two restaurants. As of Nov. straint and present better^material in late Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, no such should read to complete your sex educa 1, the report stated, a ^pewritten tiou and understand "others” who are print, such as has been done in the place operates in a large city for "different.” list of the names and addresses of all comic book industry. more than two weeks without the law EMPHASIS IS ON THE HOMOSEXUAL On the other hand, a growing reac­ officers, directors and stockholders COMPONENTS AND THE DIVERSE SEX enforcement agencies knowing about LAWS OF THE U. S. A. THAT MAKE tion from the various mental health of places serving wine and liquor it. It is most unlikely that all of ALMOST ALL SEX ACTS A "CRIME!" must be posted on the premises. spokesmen is being heard in answer these places could be closed. It is THEY WALK IN SHADOW by J. D. More« to the growing local / magazine and The action, it would appear, seems J5.95 ot your local boolcstoro OR by mall even more improbable that if they at $6.25 postpaid (add 24f tax In Calif.) parallel to policies of California’s book cleanup campaigners. They are were closed it would significantly COSMO BOOK SALES pointing up a Brown University study Alcoholic Beverage Control Depart- diminish any tendencies for such Dept. 25 - Box 635 - Son Francisco 1 mattaeA/ju. gleefully. The little Indian searched for a way of escape, the whites of his eyes in strong contrast against the dark skin. With one chubby little hand he brushed aside the black matted hair hanging in his face. He was completely naked. W H E N I A M “ Children,” the priest admonished. “ Is this any way to act toward a stranger who has come to our village of Pala in friendliness, maybe even to become baptized? Why, you have scared him half out of his wits, look how W i r H Y O U he trembles?” ^ “ He did not come to this village because he wanted to. Father.” A tall, muscular Indian spoke out. Benedict’s heart fluttered. Fiction by ARNELL LARSEN “ We found him in the hills so we brought him here.” “ As a captive?” “ Yes.” Blue paint from the horsehair brush formed into drops and splattered on the “ That was wrong of you, Barron. We do not use force upon another human floor as the painter paused in his artistic creations. He was adorning the being. That is going against the wishes of our Father in Heaven. We must walls of the Chapel of San Antonio de Pala with brilliant and strange Indian now let this little one go free. It is for him to decide whether he wishes to designs. He was an Indian, a neophyte who belonged with this church stay or go.” settlement. Now the sounds of many laughing people outside attracted his “ But Father, he is mine, I caught him.” Barron insisted, lifting his hand­ attention. He put down his brush and palette of paints made from the colors some head. of berries, leaves and flowers. He hurried to the church doorway and look­ Benedict’s eyes had been worshipping like sunlight the athletic beauty of ed out at the activity within his village. the hunter, Barron. Now Benedict said, “ Barron, you speak like a fool.” A large cluster of people were surrounding something, and they were laugh­ The neophyte Barron looked at Benedict with astonishment and started to ing, pointing and poking sticks at the object of their curiosity. The painter- protest when the priest scolded, “ No one is a fool, Benedict. We are all neophyte saw nothing so unusual, in fact, he could see nothing at all. What­ children of God. Do not displease me by saying that again.” ever it was must indeed he small. The Padre in his long brown gown came Everyone seemed to stare at Benedict now, forgetting the dwarf who was hurrying toward the group, the white knitted cincture swinging at his side. watching Benedict. The painter bjt his lip in vexation, turned about and Then the Indian decided to follow and ran after the priest. headed back to his painting in jhe chapel. The dwarf was still watching “ Children, children,*’ admonished the Padre as he pushed through the Benedict. crowd, the young painter at his heels. **What is it, what is it, mis hijos? Barton strode off too, but in another direction. His parting words back to The Padre stopped abruptly and resting his hands upon his hips, he broke the Padre were, “ Do with him as you will. Father.” out into laughter. The Indians followed suit, laughing and laughing, all As the priest pondered upon the peculiar behavior of these faithful children. except the painter. Barton and Benedict, he told the Indians, “ Return to your homes. You "What is it Father?” He moved from behind the bulky priest to see better, must not make fun of the little man any more but welcome him with Christian and what he saw standing before him made his eyes and his mouth open hospitality.” wide. “ Why it is a little man, a little Indian.” Reluctantly the crowd dispersed, returning to their little homes and their The Padre lifted his hands and the hooting and lau^ter gradually stilled. various activities. Soon the dwarf found himself alone in the Mission Square. Turning his head toward the neophyte at his side, the priest said, “ He is a Now and then he saw the people of his own race staring at him as they work­ dwarf, Benedict. See how bowed his legs are? And he is only half as tall as ed or loitered. Even the white stranger in the long gown had disappeared into one of the larger huts. What was he supposed to do now? Run and try we are.” “ De-warf,” Benedict repeated, “ dwarf.” to make an escape back into the safety of his hills? Maybe that was what Several Indian women were poking the midget with sticks and cackling they wanted him to do so they could run him down and tpar him apart. He knew he was small, the spirits had been unkind to him and had made him grow only as high as a child. Because of this, his mother died soon after, The dwarf rolled his eyes, dark and luminously beautiful. “ Everyone and one moon later his father had been killed on a hunt. So was he eternally pokes at me and laughs. I have heard some of the other clans speak of damned by the spirits, and for what reason, he could not tell. He knew that this man in the long gown who makes you get down on your knees for long no one had ever treated him kindly, in voice or in action, even among the times which is very painful. You have to speak a strange tongue and they clans of Indians. So he trusted on one. If he stayed here, what would happen throw water on you and.. . ” The dwarf blinked and withdrew at the laughter of the painter. “ You too make sport of me.” to him? Perhaps it would be better to stay than run. He stared at the campanario befqre him, a tower which held two large objects that hung one Benedict sobered. “ None of these things are really so bad, little man. You make them sound worse than they are. I know all this is new and above the other^ It seemed to reach almost to the sky, it was so tall. It strange to you.” it stood upon ^ large pile of boulders that looked as if they were stuck “ Do you want me to go away from here?” together. To gd or to stay? What was he to do? Here there were so many W I Benedict stood up and towered over the midget. “ You must decide that things to fascinate him. He might even find out what made the loud clanging for yourself.” Then picking up the palette he touched the brush to the blue sound that echoed through his hills. he had mixed. Benedict was busily painting blue petals upon one of three flowers stand­ It was not the answer the dwarf wanted. “ Why do you make pictures on ing in a red pot. He knew it was a simple picture and yet he was quite pleased with his handiwork. He had drawn what he had seen standing on the altar. these walls?” “ To make the church more beautiful. This is where our God dwells. You He found it easy to draw like the pictures in the big books of the good like the pictures?” Father. Just as Benedict drew the end of the petal down toward the center “ Yes, they are real.” The dwarf began to wander about curiously. He of the flower, he experienced the sensation of being watched. ran his hands over the hewn benches and along the adobe walls. His feet Deliberately he dropped the paint brush on the tile so that he could see brushed the Indian tile floor. All the while Benedict watched the little behind himself as he picked it up. The ring of the brush on the tile floor dwarf in his nudity investigating everything. sent something scurrying. Benedict saw only the bare bottom of a child Benedict grinned and put down his paints. “ Come with me, little man: running out the door. Tben he realized it was the tiny man, a dwarj, the You do not belong here.” Father called him. That dwarf had put Benedict to shame before the whole The dwarf looked doubtful euid suspicious. village. Well, Barron was a fool! Anyone could be strong against such a "Well, don't you want to come with me?” little Indian. Benedict paused in his fuming as he saw the spots of paint The midget cocked his head, “ Where will you take me, what will you do on the tile. As he rubbed them out with the sole of his soft skin, ankle high with me?” boot, he heard a sound and looking up saw the dwarf peeking at him from Benedict smiled. “ I’ll take you to my house. When I am done with you, behind one of the chapel doors. “ Come in, little one,” Benedict urged in then we will come back here.” the native tongue. Furtively he watched and saw the little Indian straight- The dwarf gripped the painter’s hand. “ I am not afraid . . . when I am ten up in understanding. “ Well come over here to me?” Benedict squatted with you.” down. “ Do not be afraid. No one will hurt you.” In Benedict’s little adobe house, Benedict was scrubbing the dwarf’s body. The dwarf picked his way slowly forward across the uneven Indian tiles. He marveled at the man’s body, so muscular it was and yet so small in “ That is right. Come on.” Benedict opened his arms to the Indian. proportion. Fearfully the Indian rolled his eyes back at the open doorway, “ I do not like the water so much, Benedict.” ' “ Now then, let me look at you,” he said as the dwarf came close and “ Ugh! You smell so bad, let you and water be no more strangers.” touched Benedict’s hand. “ See, I am not so terrible. You tremble? Ybu When Benedict tore a wide strip of woven cloth, the dwarf asked, “ What are a little dirty, but with your hair fixed and some clothing, you will be is that for?” ^ very happy here.” “ To cover your nakedness. The good Father does not like 'tb see his “ I am going to stay here?” children unclothed.” * "Do you not want to?” “ But only the women of out people wear things like that.” "I am afraid.” “ Well, I do not look like a woman, do I? Stand up so I can put this about "Of what?” you.” Presently Benedict sat back on his heels to survey the transformation. “ There is an improvement.” humoring him, assuming that by doing thus he contribute to Philo’s happi­ “ I feel warmer, I feel better,” He cocked his head. “ I thidk I shall run ness. The Padre and the villagers derived pleasure from seeing them con­ away now. Would you be very angry?” stantly together. They m i^t have worried if they knew how muchTPhilo “ I would not stop you. But you will not go away,” he decidejl as he took loved Benedict. The truth of the matter was that Benedict was so much in the wing of a hawk and proceeded to brush the dwarfs long black hair. love with domeone else he was blind to Philo’s infatuation. The small man had never been fussed over. Though he did not like the One tarde as Benedict sat on the ground at the priest’s feet, the Padre water, he had liked the competent tender hands scrubbing hisj body. Now touched the ink-dark hair beneath his hand and smiled. “ You have done he shut his eyes as his hair was being brushed. The feeling Was pleasant. well, Benedict with your painting. Gracias," The hanging over the doorway was swept aside and the prjest entefed. He moved his head from the priest's touch and looked up at him, where he The clicking of his beads had made the midget turn in fear tut when the sat on a wooden bench near the chapel entrance. “ I am pleased you are Padre smiled and greeted him in his native tongue, the dwarf liited his face pleased. I am only doing my poor miserable best for God and for you.” and waited calmly. The Padre bent over him and with both ^ s embraced Touching the Padre’s cassock-covered knee, he be^ed, “ Tell me again of him. “ You will become a child of God, I know. You will stay here and live the saint I was named after.” a full rich life with us in Christ. No one shall ever hurt you again. There The priest chuckled, “ My son, you must know it by heart now. Saint is love here.” Beaming the Padre moved away, saying to Benedict, "We Benedict lived between the fifth and sixth centuries. He was known to read shall baptize him utrde after siesta. Let us call him Philo . . . Yes, Philo consciences, prophesy the future and to anticipate and realize beforehand - i which means Love . . . Philo . . . muy poco bombre." Pleased, the priest the attacks of the devil. I have shown you on the map of the world you was gone, the hem of his gown switching out of the doorway. drew where he was born in Italy. In a place called Monte Cassino he and The dwarf echoed, “ I am called Phi-lo?” his followers built the monastery he was to make famous. There he wrote "Y es,” answered Benedict, "We are given a new name when we become tile Rule that became the pattern for all Western monks. Surely you know the Christ’s.” He reached for two stones, the one very sharp. “ A name the prayer to Saint Benedict, so let us repeat it together.” that will be all your own. Sit between my legs. I will cut your hair now.” Benedict closed his eyes and they recited together. Philo touched it with his chubby hands. “ All of it?” “ 0 blessed Saint Benedict, thou hast'promised to defend zealously from Benedict smiled and stroked the hair once more with the feather brush. the snares of the enemy those who call on thee during their last struggle “ Just from below the ears. It will not hurt.” The sharp rock clicked against with death ¡protect me on this and eveqff^ay of my life with thy holy blessing the hair and stone and the hair began to fall away. that I may never be separated from our Blessed Lord and the company of the Philo sighed. “ Benedict?” blessed in heaven. Amen.” “Yes, Philo.” Benedict opened his eyes. “ I will not run away. I will stay with you. I feel so tall . . . when I am The kindly priest sighed. “ It is conuda time and you want to go to your with you ...” house and this is enough religious instruction for today.” Suddenly the By the time the Padre came again to Benedict’s house, the dwarf greeted priest light-heartedly teased, “ One of these days I shall be honored as I him with the words, ‘Amar a Dios.’ The Padre wept. wed you and then you will not go to your comida so reluctantly.” Benedict shook his head vigorously. “ Oh, never that. Father. That is So came Philo into the missionary settlement of San Antonio de Pala. impossible. I am not the marrying kind.” The other neophytes grew accustomed to his pequeño from actively appear­ ‘“ Tush!” said the priest. “ Manana, perhaps, the Dona Ana may flash her ing in chapel, in the gardens, in the cemetery. He went witíi Banon and eyes at you, and just like that you are caught. Besides, I know you. Have learned to hunt well. He was not a good campanario; but sometimes, laugh­ I not heard you review your sins all these years?” ing, Benedict would lift him so he could really ring the bells of the camp­ Benedict leaped to his feet, laughing uneasily and insisting, “ There is anario; then he could grab hold of the campanilla, too, and the bells sang no chance at all for me to ever marry. Outside of my mother and my sisters out. I have never liked women. I can never feel love for anyone except mayhe Philo adored Benedict. For him he gathered wild fruit and prepared their another man like myself.” meals and served Benedict at every chance. Benedict accepted the homage. Stricken, Benedict covered his mouth and regarded in terror the Padre’s face. And he fell with a sob to the priest’s feet and hid his face against the It was a sunny day. Benedict was tramping straw and mud into adobe for ' cassock. "Forgive me, Father. I have said a sinful thing. Oh, I beg ytjur a workshop. At his elbow a voice suddenly said, “ Always you are working forgiveness.” so hard, Benedict.” “ Now, now, Benedict my son," he comforted. “ You have been God’s child The neophyte-artist looked up, “ Barron, you came on the soft quiet feet for eight years and been coming to me. I thought I knew you like I do my of a rabbit.” own heart. Come, come, do not moan so; you have not really said such a "I came to speak about my new happiness.” The hunter was all smiles, dreadful thing.” the sunlight gleaming in his face. "I have not?” He regarded the Padre with wonder. Nearby within the cemetery, Philo walked around from behind a headstone, "Who told you it was so sinful?” the top of which dripped with the cold wax of a burned-out candle. He halted "When I was thirteen, I think, Barron and I were wrestling together and at the sight of Benedict and Barron. It would always be Philo’s nature to . . . at confession I was told that it was a grave sin to do those things.” be intensely curious about everything — especially concerning Benedict. "My son, it is something that all boys want to do, and of course they He moved near the white-washed fence and squatted down to listen. are counselled not to do it again. How else can one build character in the "... And the good Father will marry Dona Ana and me. We have been young? A boy i^ not yet a man; a man knows how to govern his lusts if he friends Since we were boys, amigo; why would I not' want you to be the first has been taught right. And, as a rule, he soon begins to tiiink of how pretty to know?” girls are, and it is inevitable that he marries.” Worriedly Philo studied from above the expressidns W sadness and con­ Benedict regarded him steadily. "But I knew then . . . that I loved Barron fusion demonstrated on Benedict’s face. that way and that I would never love any other way again.” “ Dona Ana is very beautiful, Barron.” He added, chewing his lip, “ I “ But the villagers have watched you and Barron sparring for Dona Ana. only hope you will treat her kindly for you are so headstrong sometimes.” Ah, yes, I see now! I am a scholar in ways, and when I was young I read “ You always worried too much about me, Benedict. Dona Ana will tame many books written in other nations. Others have not been able to love any some of my wildness now,” he grinned. other way, too. The Church does not sanction this, but I believe that if the Benedict hung his head, unsmiling. love is strong for the on^^you adore, what is expressed cannot be anything Barron touched Benedict’s face, tilting it upward. but sacred and beautiful in the eyes of God. Neither the Church nor I can Benedict’s heart fluttered. change you. Only God can judge you.” "Why such sadness, amigo? Could it be that you loved her, too, and you Benedict brightened. "I had no idea you believed this way. Father, and it do not want me to have her forjny wife?” comes as a wonderful surprise to me. Now 1 can tell you about my dreams Benedict thrust Barron away, his eyes flashing. “ S<^ you love her! Now that will never come true.” if you do not marry her, 1 will hate you for the rest of my life.” "You must speak to me of these dreams and I will not judge you for them. Philo, puzzled by all this, rubbed his eyes and watched Benedict stamp I have a premonition like Saint Benedict,” he smiled, “ that God will provide away on muddy feet. Perplexed the hunter watched him leave. a life companion for you.” Compassionately, he continued, "Strangers are but strangers when they meet. They can fall in love with great rapidity. Both Philo and the Padre diplomatically argued Benedict into attending Look at Philo there, coming back from hoeing the com. You might even love the wedding. In the evenings prior to the wedding, Benedict was incom­ municative and ignored the worshipful chatterings and ministrations of him, no?” Benedict threw back his head and laughed at the absurdity. Philo. Benedict did not join the other villagers in decorating the chapel. The Padre stood up and said, “ Promise me that when you find the one At the wedding Benedict sat on the men’s side of the church but did not you can love, whomever it is, you will ring the bell in the campanario. sit in his accustomed pew down front. Philo from down front kept craning his Wherever I am, even at my prayers, I will come to you, for I am a man short strong neck to watch Benedict. Just before the nuptials were complet­ very curious about human nature. Do you promise?” ed, Philo glimpsed his dearest friend’s flight out of the open door. "Certainly, Father, certainly. But you will never hear me ring the bell Later, when it occured to Philo to also look in the cemetery, he found for that reason. Adiós.” There was a wistful smile on his face as he turn­ Benedict lying against a tree. Benedict was drunk. Two skins of aguardiente lay empty. He was drinking deeply from a third skin of brandy ed away. i “ Adiós.” . [ when Philo fell to the ground on his chubby knees and implored, “ But why this . . . why this?” The neophyte looked disgusted, “ Why anything? I am not sick yet, not drunk enough yet and I have forgotten noAing. Go away, you dog. All you SECOND ANNUAL do is follow me like a dog.” He gestured domonstratively and almost fell PUBLICATIONS DAY over, but Philo caught him. Tears stung the boy-man’s eyes. “ You do not like me anymore?” Sem inar “ I never liked you. I only paid attention to you because you were a novelty__ a novedad. ” Benedict wiped his wet lips and closed his eyes. “ I was lonely. I have always been alone. Go away . . . leave me widi my drunken dreams.” “ This is how you treat friendship? I will tell you something. Everyone thinks it is Dona Ana you loved, but I know it is Barron. Well, you can Spontormd by fht never have him now.” PUBLICATIONS DEPARTMENT “ Go away, stupid little Philo. I have no more love in me.” He hiccough* of rh* ed. “ Ve tu! You waste my time. I must drink to a better dream. “ 1 will go then back to the hills where I would have died anyway. But I M attachine ^ cietg, Inc. will tell you what is in my heart. You are a coward. Yon have been so blind with your love for Barton, your heart could not see me. My body is small. I am not handsome like the hunter. I loved you for your gooihiess to me. The Padre said that if I loved this God I would never be hurt again.” Philo tugged at Benedict’s shoulder. “ Come. I will take you home before it is too late and the Padre punishes us. I will hide the skins.” His voice pleaded softly, “ Can yoilnot love a litUe,this half a map, Philo? No woman will ever love me. Can you blame her for thinking the spirits will curse HOTEL BELLEVUE her children, too?” _ Geoiy i Taylor Streets “ Your chatter sickens me.” In his exasperation Benedict struck Philo in the face. San FranclMCO, Calif. Picking himself up from the ground, Philo touched his face and murmured, “ Barron could not have loved you as I do,” and stumbled away into the night. '

How many hours had passed, Benedict did not know. His head pained as he stumbled into the Mission square. Obviously the wedding dance wm over and Barron now held Dona Ana in his arms. Calling on his Saint Benedict to help him, Benedict thought only of the sweet wonderful feeling of love throbbing in himself. As he neared the camfnnario he stumbled, skinning his knees and banging his head. Oh, Padre, help me. It is Philo that I love. And he has gone. Then he remembered that once-absurd promise he had made about ringing the bell. No moments must be lost in seeking Philo who, God forbid it, may have already harmed himself or harm come to him if he had started back to the hills. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1959 when Philo fell to the ground on his chubby knees and implored, “ But why this . . . why this?” v The neophyte looked disgusted, “ Why anything? 1 am not sick yet, not drunk enough yet and 1 have forgotten nothing. Go away, you dog. All you SECOND ANNUAL do is follow me like a dog.” He gestured domonstratively and almost fell * PUBLICATIONS DAY over, but Philo caught him. Tears stung the boy-man’s eyes. “ You do not like me anymore?” Sem inar “ I never liked you. I only paid attention to you because you were a novelty__a novedad." Benedict wiped his wet lips and closed his eyes. “ 1 was lonely. 1 have always been alone. Go away . . . leave me wift my drunken dreams.” “ This is how you treat friendship? I will tell you something. Everyone thinks it is Dona Ana you loved, but I know it is Barron. Well, you can Sponsored by ffie never have him now.” PUBLICATIOI^is DEPARTMENT “ Go away, stupid little Philo. I have no mare love in me.” He hiccough­ of fho ed. “ Ve ru.' You waste my time. I must drink to a better dream.” “ 1 will go then back to the hills where I would have died anyway. But I M attachik ^orittg, 3 n c . will tell you what is in my heart. You are a coward. You have been so blind with your love for Barron, your heart could not see me. My body is small. I am not handsome like the hunter. I loved you for your goodness to me. The Padre said that if I loved this God I would never be hurt again.” Philo tugged at Benedict’s shoulder. “ Come. I will take yon home before it is too late and the Padre punishes us. I will hide the skins.” His voice pleaded softly, “ Can you not love a little, this half a man, Philo? No woman will ever love me. Can you blame her for thinking the spirits will curse her children, too?” “ Y o u r chatter sickens me.” In his exasperation Benedict struck Philo in the face. Picking himself up from the ground, Philo touched his face and murmured, “ Barron could not have loved you as I do,” and stumbled away into the night.

How many hours had passed, Benedict did not know. His head pained as he stumbled into the Mission square. Obviously the wedding dance was over and Barron now held Dona Ana in his arms. Calling on his Saint Benedict to help him, Benedict thought only of the sweet wonderful feeling of love throbbing in himself. As he neared the campanario he stumbled, skinning his knees and banging his head. Oh, Padre, help me. It is Philo that 1 love. And he has gone. Then he remembered that once-absurd promise he had made about ringing the bell. No moments must be lost in seeking Philo who, God forbid it, may have already harmed himself or harm come to

him if he had started back to the hills. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1959 "SHOULD AMERICANS READ ABOUT SEX?" San Francisco CHRONICLE editorial. Friday. Nov. 13, 1959. believes all juvenile mental patients in Penn­ THE FOLLOWING TOPICS are suggested for dis­ sylvania, practically without exception, are the cussion by the panel, although it is recognized that Vigilantes of victims of the habit of reading lewd literature. time may not permit consideration of this complete outline. It is assumed the panel will distinguish be­ tween what is suitable for adults and what is suitable for children. The panel should distinguish between The Newsstands various types of reading material: erotic realism, Bay Group Lists hard-core pornography, and material which is not "ob­ scene" but which may present false values. 'J ’O THE SMUT VIGILANTES who have ap­ pointed themselves to “drive obscene literature I. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS^ 'Immorar Books — What is the effect of reading^ matter on personality off the newsstands” of San Francisco we offer this By Bruce Benedict advice: Do not make the mistake of most censors development and the formation of basic sex attitudes? , The San Mateo County What is the importance of reading matter in relation to p in confusing your prejudices with the laws of the Monday, Nov. 16. 1959 Citizens for Decent Litera­ San Francisco Chronicle other influences? community. ture has published a re­ - Does reading about sex tend to make for more heal- ^ vised list of over 100 books "A ei," "Adim .” "AdWdnturt,” "AM. No one could question the right of individuals Man. "Amazins Oatactiva," "aattla thy or for less healthy sex attitudes? and magazines that are Cry." "Capar," "Cavalcada," "Cliam- to withhold patronage from any newsstand that pion." "Confldantlal Oataellva." “immoral for youth and Crima Oatactiva,” "Oara." "Oatac­ -D oes reading about sex tend to incite to action, sells books or magazines they deem offensive. But should be banned,” The tiva Caaai." "Ouda," "Etcapada." does it serve as a substitute for action, or does it "Eicapa to Adventura." "Exoeaa Da- we could call the attention of the vigilante group Chronicle learned yester­ teetiva," "FIcura Studlaa.” "Fofflaa." have little if any effect of any kind? day. "Foto-rama." to the difference between exerting pressure by "Frolle," "Gant," "Glamor Farada." "Huah-Hufh," "Intida Story," "In­ -Does the suppression of erotic reading matter en­ that means and attempting to coerce newsstand “The publications minimize timata Story." "Jam." "Joliar." patriotism, flout law and "Knava," "Lowdown," "Mala Ufa." courage the feeling that sex is dirty and shameful? dealers into complying with the moral code of a "Manhunt.” "Man'c Action.” "Man’s authority, exploit sensational Advantura." "Man's Cavsieada.” "Man's Conquast." "Man's Oarina —What are the historic and psychological origins of minority without any sanction of law. sex. ridicule marriage and Action," "Man's lllustratad." "Man's the American fear of Sex? Mstazina," "Man to Man," "Man's the family and present sadis­ Smashint Storias." The question of what are obscene publications "Marriaca and Leva Confaaaiona." II. RELIGIOUS ASPECTS tic brutality in such a way as "Monsiaur," "My Leva Sacrat." "My is a question for trial in court, not for the presump­ Romanca.'' "Nlcht arid Day," "Niia- -What are the attitudes of the churches? to destroy in youth the ideals *at," "Oft Baat Oatactiva/’ "On tho tive judgment of indignant individuals. If Mrs. that will keep America Q.T.." "Parli." "Parsonal Remanoaa. ''Polica Dragnet Caaoa." "Poso." -How may religious groups legitimately advance Molly Minudri's vigilantes desire to obtain support, strong,” the citizens commit­ "Playboy." their views-^through the law? Through private pres­ "Real Oatactiva." "Real Romanes." rather than excite suspicion, they must give a satis­ tee declared. "Rasi Sacrata," "Rasi Story/' " w l sure groups? Through the control of their own The list, prepared for Pen­ war," "Regua.” "Savaga.” "Seamn." factory answer to this question; Whose definition "Saxology," and "Wildcat AdvSn- members? f insula newsstand dealers as turas " of “obscene” are they proposing to follow, their Objectionable pocket-size III. CIVIL LIBERTIES ASPECTS a “guide” to clean up their own or the law’s? books named were: -Does the state have the right to restrict reading stock, was signed by Alfred "Abode of Leva," "Alcoholic Wort*- matter? In the proceedings by small-town cops of the Lynch, secretary of the anti­ an," "Nallvas Are Lovers." "Bad Girl." "Bawdy Mrs. Gray." "Baaefi smut group. Maverick." "Baat Ganaration." "Ba- -What is the law at present, in light of recent Supreme Bay Area against Playboy magazine, which have yond Dasira.” "Blackboard Jungla.'' “Every means within Con­ "Bodiaa In Badlam," "Braak-up," Court decisions? been in the news lately, we observe more zealotry "Call Girl," "Camp Followars," "Cars- stitutional privilege must be mony of Lava." ''Circle of Sin." -What censorship practices are prevalent in the than sense. Police chiefs should know better than "Clamantina Charia," "Dangareua used to keep such publica­ Gamas,” "Oaad Dolls Oon^ Talk," United States? to yank, or threaten to yank, magazines from the tions out of the hands of the "Oaath la Last Lover." "Domanda of tha Flash." "Oavil'a Mlatraaa." "Diary stands without authorization of a court. It is not young,” Lynch said. of a Gaiaha Girl," "Evil Frlandahlp," IV. UNCONVENTIONAL SEXUAL PRACTICES "Flra That Burns." "Flraa of Voutn." for a chief of police, however expert he regards Among magazines conspicu­ "Flraa That Dastroy," "Fraudulent -Should there be special controls on matter dealing Broad," "From Russia, With Lava." ous on the list was “Play­ "Girls In }-B." "God's Littla Aera." with adultery, homosexuality, incest, fetishism, f, himself in the field, to pronounce proscriptive "Gratta." "Half-Casta." "Halfway to sadism, etc.? , ‘ boy,” a magazine that trig­ Hall," "Handsoma'a Sevan WaRMn." . judgment on pictures of nudes or near-nudies. "Honey in tha Flash," "I Am a Lm - gered a recent anti-smut bisn,” "I Am a Woman," *1 the -Does reading about these things bring out tenden- drive with a racy bedroom Jury." "Johnny Bogan.” "Joumay- A chief of police can contribute much more man." "Judas Hour.'* "Jula," "Lathr cies which otherwise might remain latent? scene in its November is­ Was a Man," "Louiavilla Saturday," to the wholesomeness of the community by observ­ “ Love H ast" sue. "Love Paddlar," "Lust for Leva." V. SEX EDUCATION ing due process of law than by asserting what he "My Name Is, VIolanca." "Nakad -How should people learn about sex—from parents, Several Peninsula and East Lust," ’ 'Never Lo m a Strsnaa^ can’t prove, namely, that girlie magazines incite "Nude In the Mirror,” “ Odd GIHa." schools, churches, reading, or tl^e gutter? Bay cities found it “objec­ “ Odd Ona." "Othar Woman." crime. The statement of the vigilantes that these tionable” and yanked the sionata Land." "PWton Placa." "Play It Cool," "Priea of So«." "Privata VI. CONTROL OF READING MATTER “numb the mind and lead to rape” is rhetorically magazine off the newsstands. Club.” "Tha Rapist." -How great is the “ obscenity” problem? "Rumbla," "Rottan to tho Coro." impressive, but psychiatrically no sounder than the Objectionable magazines "School for Girla/' "Sansual Ldva." "Sax Without Guilt,': and "Tltp (Continued on Back Center Panel) view of Congresswoman Kathryn Granahap, who listed were: Shamo of Mary Quinn." T Regent Room—6 p,m. Cocktails

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Mrs, Molly Minudri, Attorney*ot-Law, San Francisco; President, ‘‘San Francisco Committee for Decent Literature."

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SHOULD AMERICANS READ ABOUT SEX?-Continued —If controls are needed, who should exercise them and decide what is to be banned? Princess Room—4 p.m —Can there be separate controls for children and Display of Homophile magozines. Sexological Publications, adults? and Sex Educational Materials from U. S. and Europe; also to be displayed are magazines and some books named as ob- —How can control be exercised without interfering lectlonable by the San Mateo County Committee for Decant with freedom of speech and religion? Literature. Informal comment on these publications will be -How can citizens protect themselves against pres­ mode by Mattachine officers, panelists and guests. sure groups seeking to enforce conformity of opinion? UNNUMBERED PAGE [S3 K ^ Should he Benedict tan up the stairway of the campmario, grabbed the campamlla and pulled back hard. Clang-CLANG! Clang-CLANG! Benedict stopped and leaned his throbbing head against the stonework. Would the Padre never , come? He heard the Padre’s voice in the square below. “ Benedict, my son, 1 am coming.” “ Father!” he answered, leaning over the side of the campanano. He saw the priest turn and command some of the villagers to go back to their comas. By the time the Ftiest reached the campanario, Benedict had stumbled doi^n the stairway. Clinging breathlessly to the priest he cried, “ Father, help me. Philo has gone away.” “ But why should he go?” the Padre asked to test him. “ Because I struck him . . . because 1 said that I had never liked him. And . . . Father, he said . . . oh, I can’t remember,” he groaned, touching his head.

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Banner headlines reproduced fitting that friends and society should revenge themselves for M l size! beina found wantina by, in their turn, INVALUABLE TO HISTORIANS, writina about Proust It has to be said, however, that the flood of RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGISTS, memoirs in the past two decades has SOCIOLOGISTS, POLITICAL seemed Hkely at times to overwhelm even the solid monument of “ A la SCIENTISTS, etc. Recherche." In reaction to this mass of Proustiana there has arisen a 0 publications school of critics and admirers— fundamentalists of a kind—who have project of the declared aaainst all alosses, who have I MATTACHINE asserted “ the book and nothina bm the book.” It is in reaction aaainst BoldinPs portrait of Co^mte SOCIETY, Inc. Advance Orders Accepted NOW! this reaction, in the sensible and true assertion thaL of aU literary works Robert de Montesquiou, the I 693 Mistión Strvat (Publication Date: March 15, 1960) original of Baron de Charius. I Son Frond SC O S of art, Proust’s autobioaraphic^ THIS IS A LIMITED 500-COPY EDITION. novel cannot be neatly and puristi- IT WILL SOON BECOME A ‘RARE VOLUME’ cally separated from Im life, that Mr. r . Painteri in his preface, makes Painter has Written his brilliant and M it dear with a jdeasiag trucu­ ADVANCE PRICE TEN DOLLARS PER COPY scholariy biography, the first volume lence how perfectly aware he is that of which is now publisbed. his biographical approach is un- (Price may be increased upon publication if production costs dictate) * * • fariiionable not only in Proustian studies but more widely in all literary grimage through time apparently favourite of Mont^uiou, that " the criticism. He gives complete and wasted to time repined Whatever poverty and obscurity of his death in convincing reasons for believin* that Mr. Painter is discussing—Proust’s old age in 1955 were a belated con­ distrust of biography is absurdly out agony at the loss of Marie de Berna- sequence of his first fatal choice sixty- of place in any study of Proust’s daky (Gilb«4e), his first fully realised one years before, when instead of novel; he also sugge^s—ai^ any homosexual love with Reynaldo relying solely on his art he had sought cieative writer, I imagine, will give Hidin, the many identities of Mme the patronage of Montesquiou and thanks that he does so^that the cur­ Verdurin or of C^ane, the fusion of high society.” After all, even Proust, rent prejudice is foolish in relation lllien and Auteuil in Combray, the for all his devotion to his art, so to a far wider field of literary failures of " Jean Santeuil,” the rami­ nearly fell into the same sin. studies. The limitations and dangers fications of Saint Germain, the origins Bid, in keeping with the manner of the biograiAical approadi are so of Charlus’s coat of arms—we are of “ A la ReiAerche,” Mr. Painter’s obvious and so long advertised that it made aware of their significance in greatest triumph is in his deiMction is cheering to see the merits once more Proust’s artistic and spiritual progress, of place and people, his revdation of so boldly asserted. of sensual memory at the key to the the raw material of the novel. Illiers, Mr. Painter is unfashionable also real world beyond time. althoudi I found the church a little in a way of which he says less in changed from Mr. Painter’s descrip­ his preface. A scholar by training, tion when I visited it last pring, must who has evidently applied the most In harmony with this close atten­ be given top place in his evocation painstaking methods of research to tion to the significance of Proust’s of places-. Among his descriptions of the minutiae of Proust’s life—exact genius, Mr. Painter sets Proust him­ people, there is no first place; all— addresses, exact dates, topography, self firmly at the centre as a hero and they are v ^ numerous-—are genealogy—he has chosen to write figure, not in his daily actions and wonderfully described. Family, girl his findings in a highly literary form. relationdiips—here he appears often companions, schoolfdlows (the Bloch The dramatised biography, with its as unheroic, even unlikeable, as Mar­ worid), a dozen or so salons with evocations of scene and person, with cel—but as the artist transcending his their hostesses and habitues, the its employment of quotations as world. This high, almost romantic young noblemen who went to make direct speech, is even more unfashion­ lone seems to me the fit and projKr up Saint Loup; all are presented with able than biography as a means of one to match Proust’s own romantic­ wit and sympathy. Evendhe Prous- criticism. Mr. Painter has defied this ism. More questionable perhaps is an tian most hostile to biography must modish prejudice without any loss of occasional Thadrerayan moralising surely say that, if it must be done, it seriousness or of scholarship. There which Mr. Painter permits himself could not have been done better. ’The are two main objections to this about life in general, as when he tells only regret is that we must wait two literary form of biography, I suppose. Portrait of Proust by Jacques- us of Delafosse. the wretched pianist- years for die conduding volume. The first is a general distrust of the Emile Blanche. infusion of scholarship with imagina­ tion. This distrust, applicable perhaps Norman and Breton coastal resorts, to detailed monographs on the even to that hackneyed old piece the minutiae of history, has done untold | Dreyfus case. harm to general historical works ; and A second objection, I think, is is, happily, being fought by post-war more serious. Scholarship infused historians in other fields. Mr. Painter with imagination does excite the .R E A D E R S «<«¿4 is surely right to fight it ¡here—his reader to know fully the sources of work is a general history founded on what he reads. Mr. Painter, in what I think to be a false concept of the monographs, in this case thé memoirs Dr, Ksrl Manningar: Just what kind of oiw of Proust’s friends. He is dotibly tight general reader’s inclinations, has pur­ and scored enough anyway, I think you posely chosen, save for rare footnotes, alytl ora you anyway? You sound Ilka an hove misunderstood o great daol, ond I because he is writing of Proust, the Ignorant country hick, l( you think pootic man who infused the facts of his own to defer all bibliography and refer­ won’t stand still for It, you ewe mo on ence material to the second volume, baouty is just o lot of "artistic flour- life with imagination to make a great Ishas," you don't know tha first thing apology for public Insult,,, novel, the admirer of Ruskin who promised in two years’ time. It is Allan Ginsberg, a pity, I think, not because there is about Art, "Tha Groan Auto" Is o poam, made great literature of art-appre­ a vahicia for tha Imoglnotlon to fly In, EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr, Manningar wrote o ciation. any doubt in the reader’s mind that the smallest detail of dress or suspanding tha low of gravity os wall <■* latter which was published In eurOetebw There are moments, of course, Issua, and in which ho sharply criticized when such imaginative writing dis­ behaviour that Mr. Painter describes your lassar lows of opinion and pathol­ has its documentary source, but ogy, I prejact on accurate Imoga of my Allan Ginsberg’s poam,‘' TheGrsen Auto- turbs us by its choice of words— moUla," In the Juna REVIEW, This was what, for example, does Mr. Painter because the* whole living lively passions In this brlaf world, tailing tha mean by describing the Romanesque picture seems to lack a (Umension truth. It damaons you to Insult this sub­ o rad flog to Ginsberg, and In the spirit of Vézelay as “ oriental ” ? Or how without some general account of Its lime process os "tricky little glorlflew of fairness, his reply Is published above. can remarks, clearly authentic, have origin. tlons of tha Illicit," Speech unworthy of Publishing poetry has never bean a con­ survived if, as he tells us, they were * * * 0 doctor of tha so u l,,, Furtharmora It Is sistent policy of the REVIEW, However, “ murmured” or “ whispered”? But HAT are the salient features erf presumptuous of you to try to threw your this literary ort form does deserve print such small doubts are soon banished W Mr. Painter’s storytelling 7 To weight around tailing tha Editors of tha even In the REVIEW oecoslenally. We beside the life that his writing gives begin with he never loses sight of the Mottochlne Review not to publish more ora gratahil to Mr, Ginsberg for tha poam to Illiers and Auteuil, the salons, the story line—in this case Proust’s pil- such poetry, thalr magazine Is padohtle mentioned above, and have received fov monthly pledge. I want to thonk you far that you will continue to publish such erase the restrictions you don’t like. all the time you spent explolning the orobl» eomni»nfi obout If. And o» 0 bon­ material.“ John Sheldon, Ph.D. REVIEW EDITOR: 1 sincerely wish to progress of the REVIEW whmi I was In us to roodsrs, o spoelol supplomont of 5 express thanks (or the fine work of your San Fronclseo. The letter by R. F. In poem, by four writers (ineludlnp one organization and other groups which pro­ your September Issue wos thought-pra- from Mr. Ginsberg) Is Included with this REVIEW EDITOR: Received the litera­ ture of your Society and fournl It Inter­ mote Integration and advancement of the voklng. The theory that one cause of de­ issu6e esting, however I did not see how It can homosexual, because It Is truly a valu­ linquency Is conflict with normal homo­ REVIEW EDITOR! I suspect that what help In the way I was hoping for. For in­ able movement for mankind. In the past I sexual desires has strong support among Dr. Korl Menninger (October Issue) hos stance 0 man Is a respected member of hove contributed some to helping these psychologists and psychiotrists. No one misunderstood Is the nature of homo sex- his community, has a good position ond societies (ond I helped the preparation of seems ready, however, to make the ob­ uollty and the homophile movement. He is known as o church worker, yet he Is the) Educotfen Hondbook complied by Carl vious conclusion. Again I congratulate does not obleet to the articles by Pro­ secretly homosexual. What Is he to do? B. Hording, but It Is not enough. Being a you for doing a splendid job. —Or. M., fessor Ayer (odvocotlng repeol of laws He connot assoclote with known homo- homosexual, I myself realize the need to Ohio against homosexuals) and Or. Ellis (op- sexuols, so, except for an onnual voco- educate the masses, and in the future I EDITOR’S NOTE: The Individual obove porently saying thot onyon# who is not tion, or an occasional business trip to a shall become a member of your organiza­ and a very few others hove made regulor bisexual is neurotic,, and that anyone distant enough city, he must lead a frus­ tion and submit material (or the REVIEW. monthly contributions (or o long time. who supports homosexuals must he homo­ trated, sex-starved life. Even In these But for the time being I am completing o These have been Invaluoble to the Soci­ sexual himself), but he does obiect to occasional Indulgences he most contin­ book In philosophy and (inonclally I can­ ety. But the need lor more friends to aid Allen Ginsberg's poem obout o homosex­ ually fear exposure. I am sure there are not spore anything. But I do enclose $1.50 this way becomes yeoter every doy. ual friendship. He objects because homo­ thousonds of such men with the same (or some Information folders for my friends Some members of the regular staff have sexual behovlor Is Illegal ond “ In^the problem who would like to meet others in -th ese may do a small port In promoting gone deeply Into debt personolly in order minds of many people pathological. the same circumstances. Two men whose knowledge of the homosexual’s problem to continue iheir necessary services with The fact that homosexuol behavior Is reputations ore above reproach, so that and your orgonlzotlon.—Mr. G. R., Mass. the Society and the REVIEW and for Illegal Is hardly relevont. If we ore not If they spent on evening together no one REVIEW EDITOR: Your remarkable con­ which they receive Inadequate pay. Will free to discuss and write obout lllegol would ever stop to think that the time was vention and the Denver Post coverage of more members and friends In 1960 see fit acts from all points of view then the spent In the bedroom. Instead of talking It convince me that I should join Motto- to support this work with contributions? laws that happen to be on the books ot In the den.-Mr. K. K., Ohio. We hope sol the moment will become fosslllied and chine.. Enclosed Is my check. Although It sterile. Homosexuol octs ore not Illegal EDITOR'S NOTE: This problem is quite Is rother late, I plan to write the Post to REVIEW EDITOR: I had good Intentions a general one, our mall would Indicate. express appreciation for their reporting, in, soy, Holland. Would It be all right to of availing myself of your subscription In fact. It Is one of the end reasons why publish the poem there? The law Is not -M r. D. L., Cplifornlo offer, but through negligence I never got there Is o Mattachlne Society. But the holy writ. It should bo observed except REVIEW EDITOR: Please send me a copy around to It. Therefore I was glad to get gool Is far from achieved. Won’t you, Mr. when it Interferes unjustly with the indi­ of the folder, “ Breakthrough.” I am a your letter giving us slow pokes another K. K., help us to educate, conduct re- vidual's privóte life ond eonselonee, but regular REVIEW reader ond newsstand chance. I om enclosing $10 for two years. seorch, and change outmoded sex oHl- purchaser, although I Intend to subscribe -Mr. J. C., New York it should not be sonctifled. tudes so thot the freedom you seek for soon, especially If you maintain the cur­ REVIEW EDITOR: I hove read your dis­ Of course homosexual behavior Is path- your private life os an adult will come to ologicol in the minds of many people. In rent standards and keep up publlcotlon of cussion of advising minors on sex prob­ pass for everyone? our society. It is unfortunate that many authors such as Ginsberg.—Mr. S. B., lems In the current issu e ... this metter of these people ore psychologists and REVIEW EDITOR: I would have become a California ■ come up also In an issue of ONE maga­ zine, so I hove decided to suggest that psychiotrists, thot many of our students member long ago, but a letter I wrote did REVIEW EDITOR: As usual I have en­ minors be told to read SEXOLOGY, the of behovlor seem to suffer from eultorol not receive a very good vmleome. The re­ joyed the articles that appear in the RE­ myopia just as much as the clergy do. ply I got wos rother stiltod ond purlton. VIEW and will look forward to the suc­ popular sex education magazine. Within Other psychologists and psychiatrists You would not write me and wouldn't hove ceeding issues with antlclpotlon. I will 0 few months or a year, most questions who ore just os competent do not agree anyone else write me or give me any see if I can get some subscrlptlens for will be answered. SEXOLOGY does not that homosexuality is pathological, ond names end addresses. Now what Is the condemn deviates, but crltlcUes them In o you whenever the opportunity presents it seems o bit presumptuous of Dr. Men­ constructive manner... After reading use of my joining a group If I cannot cor­ Itself. I hove one person oiready who hos ninger to feel thot only things thot he respond with like spirits and compare about all the emotional problems that so. mentioned an interest but the monner of approves of should be printed. Psych­ difficulties, experiences, etc. In o small called ’’normal’’ people hove, I lost my paying for It (In England) Is still under ology and psychiatry ore still so primi­ place like this where I om tied down by own Inferiority complex about being homo­ discussion. We hove just hsord of the tive, ourunderstanding of human behavior my business, It Is Impossible to get to sex u al...! also lived near the Mexican Wolden scandal, and although we don t meetings InNewYorkClty or other places. border once (there are not so many de­ so limited, that no one con say at the have any real details, we ore amazed at present time that homosexuality is heal­ If you con solve this difficulty for me or viates In Mexico beeouse lows pay hord- the uHer stupidity of hIs trying to make thy or pothologicol, normal or abnormal. write to mo yourself or have others ly any attention to It). The deviate I qot an Issue of this...-M iss L.L., London It is likely that as our understanding in­ I will b* glod to join.—Mr. W. C., Now most of my Informotlon from said at that creases these terms will become meon- York, REVIEW EDITOR: Please send me a capy time he wos having doings with a police­ of your booklet, "Mattachlne Saclety man, twice a week. This policeman’s wife ingless and wo will osk questions that EDITOR'S NOTE: We have stoted the hove more volidity. In the meantime, tol- did not wont any more sex as she was reasons mony times why Mottochlne eon- Today.’’ I om looking forword to joining eronceand humility seem to be colled for. thochopter In Phoenix that Is being formed afraid of hoving more-children. This pol­ not be an address exchange center. The An essential factor in the development —It will be wonderful joining 0 Society, iceman thought that he was doing the problem is one which we are, in our sn«ll of groúp consciousness ond self-under­ where I can belong and contribute to its right thing, otherwise If he had on affoir way, attempting to solve by helping to standing is ths Interpretation and exten­ with another woman. It might break up to change lows and attitudes. In the alms.-Mr. A. J., Arizona sion of group experience by means of the hit home and marrlofleo—(ilgnod) A Ho­ artistic imagination. High-quality fiction, meontime, wo connot understond how any REVIEW EDITOR: Enclosed Is another $20 contribution In fulfillment of my mosexual In a Packing Box* poetry and art can make a reo I contrib­ adult concorned con foil to willingly «up* ution !o the homophile movement. I hope port the work of our group In seeking to 28 m A tC A ciO u- MtrsfflM of thought and fsail

and Japan to tha West it it a bavn of tolaranea after the wary, pres* t^e>drlven Intecurity oí Los Angelas. In fin Francisco, for instance, the Young Democrats’ organisation is praising for the admtsiioo of China to the United Nations ; here the Mattachine Society, which it dedicated to the abolition of the ' 'laws against hofflosexualiiiualitv, has its head* quailuarters ; and here Zen Buddhism thrives, guided by its leading American expounder, Alan Watts. This is a town where left-wing opinions can be expressed without deflance; a town, too, that is served by a unique radio station, KPFA,by KFrA, rhalognplu by HARRY RBDL which abjures commercials and is Kenneth Tynan with Lawrence Ferlinghetti. wholly financed by contributions from itt 200,000 listeners. KPFA, which devotes hours of its time to such subjects u sexual deviation, In September Kenneth Tynan of London came to San Francisco on a special Chinese Communism and drug assignment: to make a film documentary on non-conformIsm In San Francisco. addiction, recently invited to its This assignment was made by BBC-Televlslon, For It, Mr, Tynan spent several studio a group of marijuana smokers, "turned them o n ” (i.e., days In San Francisco’s North Beach Area (which Is not a beach at all) Inter­ gave them the cigarettes they viewing spokesmen of the so-called Beat Generation, He also brought his wanted) and interviewed them for cameras to the offices of the Mattachine Society, and Included an Interview four hours. One of its news com­ mentators is a Communist j his pre­ with the president of the Callfori.la Federation of Young Democrats. decessor, also a Communist, was First report of Mr. Tynan’s visit here to come from England Is the following fired, not because of his beliefs but because be did not express them article he wrote for the LONDON OBSERVER which Is reproduced Ip full intelligently e n o u ^ It was in text herewith. San Francisco that the wotest comedians, Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, first became prominent Alien Ginsberg, a u th o r o f **Hou>V* Publicity Disturbs EST of the Rockies, say Bearding the people who live there, Old«* W iitm Wwe are making a new On the whole, I see why Mr. America, fiar away from the Khrushchev warmed to the place, terrible imperatives of' Wall and it to him. The day he left, a Street and the Pentagon. After local ctfiomnist said that "as of spending two weelu in San to-day, San Frandaco is the safest Francisco I suspect they may be city in the United States. LA . goes the Beats rig h t first” If the town contained just This bright precipitous city is a one really beautiful budding I cradle of nonconformity; it would be seriously tempted to live By KENNETH TYNAN houses and cherishes more there the rest of my life. mattacA/He I Among other things, it is the than bitchery in Dorothy Parker’s fered a broken toe when an irate tell him to go to hell, and what’s fortress of the beat generation. remark that, whatever their literary policeman tore it down and trod so groovy is, he w ill. . . Barabbat The older San Francisco writers— shortcomings, the beats are gener­ on his foot Kaufman is the gets a suspended sentence and I such as Kenneth Rexroth, Henry ous people—“ why, they’d give you make the hilL Well, that’s pocuy, author of “ The Abomunist Mani­ and I’ve got to split now. Miller, Kenneth Patchen and the monkey off their backs.” festo," of which these are frag­ Robert Duncan—are understand­ The beats I met in San Francisco ments:— (Glossary. Fuzz means police, ably a little disturbed by the pub- were different; nicer, and much splitting means leaving, eighty- In times of national peril, Abom- < licity the beats have received, and less pretentious. Mostly they live unisfs, as reality Americans, sixed means evicted, bugs means Rexfoth is right when he says: on or near Grant Avenue, a steep, stand ready to drink themselves bothers, and hung on means “ We had our renaissance twenty narrow street leading up to Tele­ to death for their country . . . addicted to.) years ago.” But in America time graph Hill, which overmoks the Abomunists do not use the word 1 find that funny, but I do not moves, and reputations dim, with bay. The district is called North Square except when talking to think it literature. What interests bdastly speed. And people move Beach, and it is full of bars and Squares . , me least about the beats is their as well. Of the founders of beat. coffee-houses such as The Place, Abomunists never carry more than philosophy of aesthetics, I and I Jack Kerouac is now living on The Co-Existence Bagel Shop, The fifty dollars in debts on them . . . believe it misguided to defend their Long Island, while Allen Ginsberg Old Spaghetti Factory (square) and Abomunists do not write for way of life on the ground that it is (the author of “ Howl,” the beat the Bread and Wine Mission. money; they write the money a way of art. Lawrence Lipton, the anthem) shares an apartment with itself . . . beat sage of Los Angeles, declares Gregory Corso on the lower East Abomunists demand low cost that beatdom will evolve a new housing for homosexuals . . . Side of New York. They are pro­ Poetry Readings mode of art as it severs itself from Abomunists demand suppression of fessional literary men who argue illegal milk trafiSc . . . life; this seems to me dubiom, and Parades since art that is divorced from life about royalties and German rights. The only office Abomunists run for Ginsberg also talks about prosody, Poetry readings are held in most is the unemployment office. cannot be other than sterile. Pierre de Lattre, the young Congrega- in which he thinks the Americans of these haunts, sometimes pre­ The pamphlet also includes ex­ have far outstripped the Euro­ ceded by parades, for which the tionalist minister who runs the cerpts from “ the live sea scrolls,” Bread and Wine Mission on Grant peans. Showing you his latest beats and their docile, black- presumably written by Christ:— poem, he will direct your attention slacked girls dress up in brown Avenue, strikes me as being much to the passage wherein he obliquely paper and fishnet tights, ana Nazareth getting too hot, fuzz more sensible when he says he likes mocks Anacreon. Beat poetry is brandish emblematic mobiles. broke up two of my poetry readings the beats because they live a com­ packed with intramural references, Some of the poets are would-be last night. Beat vagrancy charge munal life more selfless and un­ by carrying my tool box—carpen­ worldly than he has ever seen out­ attempts to prove that writers of mystics, like Philip Lamantia, who ters O.K. Splitting to Jeru as soon the past were also members of the intones, in a dragging, florid voice, as I get wheels . . . Jem cool, side purely religious groups. sang; "I knew you, Charlie his determination to find Christ Roman fuzz busy having a ball, Baudelaire, and you too, Gerry de through dope: “ I am the sickest never bother you unless someone Gandhian Hatred Nerval,” is not an uncommon sort of San Francisco,” be drawls, complains. Had a ball this morn­ bitterly grinning, “ dig? ” Law­ ing, eighty-sixed some square of Violence of exordium. bankers from the temple, read long rence Ferlinghetti, a bearded poem on revolt Noticed cats They are dedicated to poverty, Precise, Witty, humanist close to forty who runs takiiv notes, maybe they are which means that they care alwut the City Lights book-store and publishers’ agents, hope so. It money only in SO far as it brings publishes most of the beat poets, is would be crazy to publish with one Sepulchral of those big Roman firms . .. Local them the basic necessities of foo^ a fine writer and a good incanta- shelter and clothing. And they tory reader, as witness the record­ poets and literary people throwing The beat Pope is an exiled a big dinner for me to-night, which are Gandhian in their hatred American, now in his forties, ing he made of his anti-bomb should be a gas. Most of the cats of violence and the bomb. named William S. Burroughs. An poem, “ Tentative Description of here real cool, writing real far out If America had a political party addict of most things euphoric, he a Dinner given to Promote the —only cat bugs me is this Judas, that was prepared to take disarma­ lives at present in Tangier, where Impeachment of President Eisen­ got shook up when 1 refused to ment seriously, and to abolish he wrote a novel called “ Naked hower.” loan him thirty pieces of silver, he seems to be hung on loot, must be advertising and the values it im­ Lunch ” that displays a command a lush . . . I am writing this in my plies, the beats would probably of prose more precise and wittily The Abomunist cell. I was framed . . . Roman turn­ take up politics. Until then, they sepulchral than any of his disciples key was around passing out will write, make love, contemplate, have yet achieved. Otherwise, you Manifesto crosses. The two thieves have good take marijuana (not heroin or don’t have to read much Kerouac connections so they got first crack cocaine) and drink cheap wine (not to agree with Kingsley Amis’s Then there is Bob Kaufman, a at them—I got stuck with the big­ gin or whisky). They are doing no comment that talking off the top Negro who lately wrote a poem gest one. One of the guards harm, except conceivably to them­ of your head is not the same as doesn’t dig my beard and sandals— attacking the police, pinned it up taunted me all night. I’m going to selves ; and meanwhile, their spontaneity; and there is more on a coffee-house wall, and suf­ be cool now, but to-morrow I’ll numbers are growing. nnnni>iuinni\nium ivniif\n uuii> Nfiw » Original Editions

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Since we had changed The moon glows, an aberration through the rogere

Allen Ginsberg J. Howard Simpson

Originally prbttad In hanJmltlan photoeagr. Jargon 31, H/gh/ondt, N. C , c/o Jno, Williams, I95S. T h» C low n boy, north baoeh, s. f.

The water flows slow and white from the flume. how many nights will you feed before the death you seek? The boy rubs the wet stones with his feet, his legs bruised blue from the last rough trade, and shorts are haired with dust. stoned for four days

I finish and he drinks, the boy t^o l9ved you best throat like a heart, left you but years of despair then dips his head beneath the tap. we turn in the sun but briefly **Feel good, Angelo?” and underground long He smiles. ' now we have you among us His fingers open like leaves i walk by your side alive to bare the peach: take your hand, i may, his teeth press its juices down his throat. go with you a way

On his stomach I collect the stream with my finger . . . earth and salt and peach.

•’Clown!” he lightly chides.

DouglMs R. Emprimgham Inm combs 1 follow« t

botkor Woat taloiid night you will have the lobster claw by claw crawls that peach— flesh flesh from under rock under—sea so brief a time as ( foot by foot advance wrap It main street at midnight, joyous—lung’d if wrap it you must in metal—green mesh, each to his taste narrow C»^S», C»“ f* the loin— form forward that we stepping near you on the sands may start • to dream and remember why we are here (for Allan Glasheif) whence this curiosity, God? some-riates i*m so tired

of trying to think, lout! to get drunk

or (sigh; so seldom) laid

m um If i Mfflht Isv* )fM. . . . mind straggles to ingest so great a thought ^ but denied in nil its arcs its points its acts die, down. it dares not think on so intense a grace lest in attei:q>ciag to return to the gestures of today hearts arill be lost.

i remember it most because your eyes were aiolec.

so subtly bur summer went it seems not really over yet

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