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Readers Write

Tabula Rasa

Diamonds, mantras, trains of thought

By Our Readers November 1975
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Last Free Lunch (Part Two)

Wild Foods And Herbs In Chapel Hill

In this area of North Carolina, healthful foods and herbs grow wild throughout the year. . . . Persimmon, rosehips, and sassafras are three easy to find and easy to collect plants that are abundant.

By Leaf Robert Diamant November 1975
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Boredom, And Its Blessings

I am a creature bankrupt of desire, save one — LUST. And what am I to do now, while in the experimental “foregoing of fucking” stage? If I deny my prime desire, and if I have no others, how am I to act other than at random, which I also refuse to do?

By Lamellicorn the Clone (Rob Brezsny) November 1975
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

My Ten Best Dressed Women*

The one who said I wanted her cunt. No, not her cunt, her heart. No, not her heart, her past. She never saw my teeth.

By Sy Safransky November 1975
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Confessions Of A Male Chauvinist P-g

(after the pain, the pain)

Like many men, I’ve been changing. Making love has become preferable to fucking and sharing preferable to manipulating. I’m realizing that every time my penis gets hard it doesn’t need (nor does it have some instinctive right) to be inserted in a conveniently warm place.

By Hal Richman November 1975