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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    How Does Moving The Body Move The Mind?

    Why move? Why persist in it when all my material needs are fulfilled? Is it the playing out, the dance, of neurosis? The urgings of a subtle psychic movement? Why move? Curiosity? There’s something pleasing about motion.

    By Rob GelblumDecember 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Mapping The Inner Regions

    As Ring says of his map, it is “not merely an abstract diagram of the geography of consciousness” but refers to the voyage we are all destined to take to the farther regions of inner space. As such, it is a map worth knowing how to read.

    By Sy SafranskyDecember 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Fecundity/Nature &/Or

    The happy people with big hips and watery lips pulled up by the river and sat down, spent. There trout bubbled at them, trees shaded and grass waved.

    By Norm MoserDecember 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Armageddon: A Scenario

    What’s going on in the next ten years is centered around the Mid-East. That’s the conclusion I draw from The Fatima Prophecy and all the Bible prophecies and the techniques they’re using at the Rand Corporation and the Hudson Institute.

    By Ron TaborDecember 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Another Appetite

    Come the autumn, when the earth is getting sleepy, it’s especially good to remember the time of energy and abundance. So I make cooking an offering, to God, to my family, and to the friends who allow me to share my love with them.

    By Judy BrattenNovember 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 DiamantNovember 1975
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    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 Rob BrezsnyNovember 1975
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    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 SafranskyNovember 1975
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    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 RichmanNovember 1975
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    The Mystery Within The Mystery

    What makes a woman, or a man? Either sex is inhabited by the opposite sex; biologically speaking, it is simply the addition of one x or y chromosome that tips the scales. Is sex merely a genetic difference, or is there something else?

    By Priscilla RichNovember 1975
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