Correspondence
Frost, Dhvid & Romm, A.N. & Kaplan, Gib
24 e Alternative November, 1971 '~ghat ~re you on today?" I ask him. "Don't know; just something Bey gave me," he replies. And when to heroin? He "'doesn't know" that either, though heroin can...
...David E. Frost Terre Haute, Ind...
...Maybe the Japanese, though...
...To the Editor: I just want to take this opporunity to tell you I think Coyne's review of H gway was the best I read anywhere...
...This, I would .urge, transcends any pristine libertarian ruminations about the Free Marketi In a society of just men and women, do we not have an obligation to try, with everything which we can legitimately bring to hear on the discussion, to convince our fellow human beings to avoid heroin...
...Its use is not, as some of our simplistic fellows on the right would have us believe, a corollary to ultra-leftist politics...
...If we keep firmly in-mind the datum of the loss of volition - - the inability once un~r heroin's sway to wi/l oneself off it -- we can see the insufficiency of the libertarian approach in this case...
...Petr is sweetr Swan Lake is unPolluted Anothr Student for Petr...
...Once is not tantamount to addiction, but once is usually just the prelude to more, to much, to addiction...
...David Brudnoy David Brudnoy is a cosmopolitan residing in Boston...
...we plan a thorough survey of his extant scores, editing and revising where his own marginal notations seem to warrant it...
...Try thinking of that movie as surrealistic and a lot of your remarks would seem beside the point...
...I think we do...
...And he will steal, brutalize, and even murder, to get it...
...Imagine bundling up all the blue-prints of the top-secret (every one of them stamped that way, down to the gaskets) P-47, tossing them out the hangar window and looking down to find German prisoners of war picking them up...
...He is a regular dontributor to Ideas, National Review, New Guard and Counterpoint...
...Nathan is fat) and probably inspired...
...When the MeNamara papers came out, I was reminded of an incident on an Army Air base where I was in charge of the engineer:mg.~drafting department...
...THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK does not say so in words, in pat, packaged homilies...
...When a user is "up," he's very happy, and he may talk of (though rarely make) love, or dig music, or play a bit at politics...
...A. N.Romm Tile Times-Herald Record Middletown, New York ANNOUNCING the formation of the P e t r filch Tehaikovsky Society The Saturday Evening Club hereby informs a heretofore unappreciative public of the formation of a society whose purpose, as revealed i~-our Constitution, will be "To encourage the dissemination and popularization of the music of Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky...
...But when he's not up, he turns exclusively to the search fo E more H. Until he finds it, all other concerns are drained from him...
...That it had to be fought and that we were the good guys, made it no less so...
...What heroin does is destroy, including the destruction of the capacity to think of much else but getting more heroin...
...Our membership card will entitle you to all privileges listed in our Constitution, as well as to authorization to complain to the FCC when you feel the works of this master are being repressed...
...You can't imagine the Maoists making it, or the Russians...
...He "'doesn't know" that either, though heroin can be snorted too, and from snorting to shooting is a short road...
...th~n it is a conservative cliche that they are all sweet, earnest, upstanding, good heroes...
...World War II was as...
...Gib Kaplan New York, New York To the Editor: I did think you missed the point about Catch 22...
...Furthermore, upon receipt of your check or money order, we will send you decals for your windows, stickers for your bumpers, bumpers for your stickers and buttons for your lapels -- all decorated with appropriate inscriptions, a tantalizing list of which we here offer you: The Pa~tique is ch~ " Don't loan Petr I'm a Thai for Tchai Win with Gene Onegin Get high on Tchai Shun La Mer and hoot it...
...absurd as Catch 22 made it...
...we play a compJete cataloguing of his manuscripts, elevating the orchestration of his symphonies, for instance, from the provisional to the authorized...
...Too long unknown, too long collecting the dust with which cruel History buries its premature offspring, this lonely and obscure Russian composer deserves the attention : his ~ genius demands, but which for more than seventy years has failed to elicit from a musical public so obsessed with the emotive dribble of Bruckner, Strauss and Mahler...
...But I cannot believe it, cannot accept i t s callousness toward others, even though I once enunciated it myself...
...Toward that end, we have commissioned the writing of a definitive biographical study (When Wa~The Last Time They Played the 1812...
...The Alternative is magnificent...
...In point of fact, heroin use and acquisition become the major preoccupations of these involved with it...
...CORRESPONDENCE 9 To the Editor: @George Nathan's edito~i~l 'Telling Fat Woman They are Beautiful," was beautiful (I do not know if Mr...
...And l think that we can include among those legitimate means the strictest punishment of these selling that drug...
...I have another friend who shot up once, recorded hisreactionsfor his own satisfaction, rejected further-doses of it and has never done it again...
...That's the army...
...It is no more a liberal cliche that all officers in our armed forces are semi-fascist, etc...
...You can't always analyze art through a Marxist lens...
...we prophesy nothing less than what could be called an overwhelming Tchaikovsky revival had our misunderstood genius gained a proper bearing in the first place...
...We did some ghastly, unforgivable things in that war, and why you feel threatened by a movie that says so is a p,r~Je...
...Morever, you will receive our monthly newsletter, Petr Patter, a lively collection of biographical tidbits, never before published photographs, and snippets from Our standardized scores, suitable for whistling...
...Address all correspondence to The Saturday Evening Club, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
...A strict libertarian argument, which I tried out on a local television program just for experience, has it that people should be able to go to hell in the wheelbarrows of then" own choosing, and were heroin available legally, its cost could be minimal, and crimes of theft and violence now attendant upon heroin addiction would cease...
...Mrs...
...Is it...
...It says so by presenting a remarkably welldone take of the worst environmental waste of all, the waste of human beings...
...And so what can we do about it...
...In addition, we are planning both gala concerts and intimate musical evenings...
...we plan to unearth previously unavailable or lost scores...
...We predict repeated performances of his work...
...The movie struck me as a very Western-civiliT-~tion thing...
...Best of luck to you all...
...And it is a nice, neat little argument, pure in the libertarian fashion, as are most libertarian arguments...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401...
...that's surrealism...
Vol. 5 • November 1971 • No. 2
