Dear Reader, Volume is not mass and it is not space. It is what fills space. Volume is full. It says more than what it says. Volume is the range between silence and sound. This is not a magazine for the disaffected. This is not a magazine for the outcasts. This is not a magazine about the disaffected nor the outcasts. This is a magazine about baseball fans, about sailing, about hippies and pharmacists. The first issue of Volume has a challenge: not to defend freaks, but to redefine them. There is a bit of freak in each of us. To call someone ‘abnormal’ is to acquiesce, to accept an idea of what ‘normal’ is without protest. To call someone a ‘freak’ implies judgment, but we refuse to judge. We are simply interested. We hope you will be too. yours, V
