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s n ew s was a natural state o f affairs and that industrial conflict was unnatural and unwarranted, was naive, unreal and harmful.

Fortunately for us all, his danger­ ous heresies have been roundly con ­ demned by our elders and betters in the business comm unity, not to men­ tion a new state premier. They know God is on their side.

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T ’S THE START OF THE PAV­ LOVA REVOLUTION: Shortly before prime minister Gough Whitlam entered his amazing song and dance act in Peking it was announced that China had signed a contract to buy up to $250 million worth o f Australian sugar, proving that not only western nations are fools about fo o d values.

Passionfruit growers and egg vendors in Australia are also believed to be gearing up to com plete the destruction o f this once proud race.

Obviously driven somewhat de­ mented by his fleeting success, Whit­ lam, after being allowed to meet chair­ man Mao Tse-tung, started babbling to a company journalist about our "long march’’ and generally behaving like a poor man’ s version o f an international statesman. Realising that they were dealing with a madman, the Chinese humored our leader by rousing rendi­ tions o f Click Go the Shears, Botany Bay and On The Road to Gundagai.

Mr Whitlam took this as a compliment.

h e u ltim a te d is g r a c e : United States president, Richard M. Nixon, who is having some slight difficulties because he has somehow mislaid a tape recording o f The Sound o f Music in which he personally plays a star role, now knows quite definitely he is not acceptable in the best o f circles. Neither he nor his good wife have been invited to the wedding o f Princess Anne and her layabout hus­ band to be.

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E’S STILL REFUSING TO BUY THAT SWIMMING POOL: In the continuing saga o f Australian au­ thor Patrick White’ s deteriorating di­ sease which prevents him from enjoy­ ing life to the full, it has now been revealed that he has given $11,500 to the aboriginal education council to help educate black children. Next thing you know White will demand that all people be given an equal start in life, make a plea for a true socialist government and argue that society has a duty to support the poor afflicted.

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OU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK IN THE BIG CITY: Seek­ ing to create an international incident o f some sort, the aboriginal embassy, at present camped on the lawn outside Canberra’ s parliament house, sent a note to the Chinese government during our leader’s tour demanding that the Peking regime recognise the embassy and denounce Mr Whitlam as a racist w ho was “ arrogant in his treatment o f Australian blacks” . Perhaps the blacks were hoping fo r the rights similar to those now enjoyed by a racial minor­ ity under Chinese rule - the Tibetans.

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H SHUT UP (OR WHY WHIT­ LAM WILL ALWAYS LOOK LIKE A STATESMAN): Bill Snedden, leader o f some obscure Australian political group, told a meeting o f well wishers in Sydney after looking at a more than flattering portrait o f him­ self: “ He looks a pretty nice guy and.

I’m not. The fact is that I’ m as tough as an old b oo t - I just happen to have a nice exterior.” Someone should in­ form him that during mankind’s re­ corded history there has never been a single instance o f an old boot being called upon to lead a country.

ONT W ORRY BHP, THE LABOR GOVERNM ENT LOVES YOU: Federal labor minister Clyde Cameron, in a speech to the New South Wales Employers Feder­ ation, said the number o f unions in Australia were "sheer madness” , and claims that the unions were resisting worker control to the bitter end be­ cause they believed it was all part o f a “ capitalistic p lot” , and added that . demarkation disputes were lunatic.

For his next trick he is going to advocate that all naughty unionists be blown to death from the mouth o f the cannon.

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UT WHAT’S GOING TO HAP­ PEN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EARTH?It has been recorded that French engineers have begun drill­ ing preliminary tunnels for under­ ground nuclear tests on the South Pacific atolls o f Mururoa and Fangatofa because o f the somewhat unpleas­ ant world reaction to their present series o f atmospheric pyrotechnic dis­ plays. The underground tests are ex­ pected to start in 1976 after tw o further atmospheric explosions in 1974 and 1975.

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i>'CKi£ the University o f Tasmania’s chemistry department, has shown that eight per­ cent o f Hobart children have danger­ ously high levels o f lead poison in their b lood and could grow up mentally retarded. " I t ’s rather irresponsible for adults to impose upon children the possibility o f becom ing mentally re­ tarded fo r life just to keep lead in petrol when it may not be necessary,” Professor B loom added in a somewhat naive comment. It is expected he will shortly be investigated for un-Austral­ ian activities and, as a just punishment, will be forced to act as a petrol station attendant fo r the rest o f his life.

o o d f l a v o r s a r e w a it­ i n g FOR LEAD SURVIVORS: A n American medical specialist has announced that artificial colorings and flavorings in fo o d can cause serious behavior disorders in children. Dr Ben

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F RADIATION DOESNT GET YOU EXHAUST FUMES WILL: A survey by professor Harry Bloom, at

STOP PRESS A NEWLY-FORMED Prisoners Action Group in NSW is consider­ ing charging the governor o f Long Bay jail, Mr Brownlee, with a felony. This follows reports o f persistent violent assaults on prisoners. The Prisoners A ction Group has called for a dem on­ stration outside Long Bay jail on Saturday morning (November •k ie it SYDNEY WOMEN are invited to the Filmmakers Co-op, St Peters Lane, Darlinghurst, for a weekend o f theatre, films, pop, TV, newspapers and all extensions o f media, beginning Friday night.

Inquiries: 31.3237 and men are allowed only on Sunday night.

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Feingold, head o f the department o f allergy at San Francisco’s Kaiser fou n ­ dation hospital, has related the rise o f a disease known as hyperkinesis, or hyperactivity, with a rise in fo o d and soft drink additives and it is true that it disappears once the afflicted chil­ dren follow a special diet. It’s not the permissive societys fault, it’ s CocaCola’s.

et a n oth er m adm an SPEAKS OUT: Professor J. E. Isaac, a new deputy president o f the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbi­ tration Commission, said that strikes by workers were often the on ly way to solve an industrial problem and that they should be allowed to run their course, despite their cost and incon­ venience to industry. Accusing man­ agement o f being “ unusually m orbid” about the strike action, he added that the notion that industrial harmony

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i t h e r t h a t o r h e 's g o i n g TO LIVE IN PORTUGAL: The ruling Portuguese party known as A ccao National Popular, headed by prime minister Dr Caetano, heavily supported by settlers in Angola and Mozambique, who uphold the govern­ ment’s war against the so called rebel guerrillas in the African provinces, has been swept back into power once again. Portugal, like neighboring Spain, does not take kindly to dissidents be they black, white, unionist or non unionist.

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ONDER A LITTLE AS YOU SLURP YOU R MILKSHAKES: The United Nations International Chil­ drens Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has reported that 500 people are dying each week in a famine that has hit the northern central parts o f the African state o f Ethiopia.

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M assage parlors are booming the world o v e r. The sex industry goes through stages of fashion; the brothel has gone the w a y of the pedal radio. W hen men in the city w ant to drop their rocks they seek the detached efficiency of a shower, body rub and blow job. In Melbourne our intrepid sleuths investigate.

Those spunky ladies from Shady Lane

ALONG the diseased artery o f Melbourne known as that o f St. Kilda; where he rowed his painted ladies to the shore, across the gutter and into those dark houses o f flushed light. This is where we go.

In the sarcophagus o f the night.

Down a leafy street where three middle aged men loiter: one beside a tree, one with a cigarette and the other still in his car. These are those w ho linger with their fantasies o f slinking through the al­ leys o f sordid things. They will tentat­ ively enter the massage parlor at inter­ vals and go through a process m uch the same as this: * * * UP THE flagged footpath and behind the d oor: a lady sits at a desk nestling under stairs. The photographic/striptease studio is on the left and the stairs circle upwards from the right. The walls are covered with photographs o f naked w o ­ men (circa Junior Squire) and men (lo o k ­ ing like extras from an Italian epic).

A couple o f kerosene heaters take care o f the atmosphere. A sign states the massage parlor isn’t responsible for ail­ ments causing the denial o f your exis­ tence in the sauna. The waiting room is to the left rear and the ladies room is in "startling juxtaposition’ ’( l ) near.

The desk girl wears a white blouse, transparent in the fluorescent lighting.

Her long pink slacks force out her ample rear so, in standing, she has the look o f a question mark which lost its sentence.

She speaks with the soft and over-articu­ late pronunciation o f a professional hos­ tess. “ Good-evening, have you been here before?” “ N o.”

She smiles with phosphorescent fence post teeth. "$ 1 0 ordinary massage, $12 topless, $18 slave (that’s slove!) with tw o girls.

(A p a u se ). . . But there’ll be a wait o f 20 minutes.”

A girl enters the waiting room and asks for her client. “ John” rotundly com es out o f the room .

She is in the Hawaiian m ode, her few teeth the color o f her skin. She is obviously tired but he cannot see past the bikini pants and the black transparent scarf w ound round her breasts and knotted in the small o f her back. Back at the reception desk, the name is given, the $12 is paid.

Her smile points to the waiting room , a sit dow n T V theatre.

Three rows o f seats are arranged before Hal T odd (G T V 9 ’s latenight raconteur) and a small table with many Pix, m otor cycle magazines and ragged Playboys.

There are no sharp movements here. Only dim shadows falling from the TV to the pale blue walls.

The windows are cloaked with red cotton to hush the light. No one speaks as Errol Flynn pole vaults his way around

with the Khyber Rifles.

There are four seated separately al­ ready here. A trendy South Yarra flu ff in a short sleeved tank top ; a 35 year old estate agent (suburban) looking lost without his familiar ducks on the wall; two fitters and turners whose feelings are non-hesitant.

The front door opens and the typical conversation ensues. It is interrupted by a telephone call. Now there are six, all with a twenty minute wait. The tele­ phone caller is fobbed o f f with a sneer.

The new inmate is a well know n pro­ fessional footballer, who was thought­ fully using a wrong name.

The return o f “ John” . He has been convinced apparently, to take one o f everything. He is being led down the stairs to the photographic studio. “ John’ is to be given a massage while another woman strips o f f her sequined gown to music and flashing lights. A $30 treat.

He carries his clothes, folded, on his stomach under which he wears a small white towel and an obvious erection. He is left standing in the foyer while the girls discuss the situation. T hey talk dis­ passionately and he does not wear the gaze o f several pairs o f eyes lightly.

Finally he is led o ff.

Time passes slowly. N ow it is thirty minutes later. The Hawaiian lady who is nearing the end o f her 10 hour shift leads the way up the stairs. 3 A K ’s “ al­ ternative music” is piped through the rooms, bare except for a thin table cush ioned by towels and another smaller table with a red light, tw o plastic sauce bottles containing oil, and a b o x o f tissues.

At this time o f night the ladies are very busy so the clients are asked to have a shower instead o f a sauna. There the floor is wet with anxious broad feet(2) which left in the manner Doris may have entered. Three cigarettes la­ ter: "A re you dry n ow ?” “ Yes” . “ Was the shower nice?”

"Y e s ” . “ G ood” . “ Thanks” .

She begins to loosen her bra, her hands feel behind her back. “ Lie up on the bench face dow n would y ou ” . “ OK” .

She is anonymous, unobtrusive yet brown and rounded from the waist up. “ Take the towel o f f ” .

The sauce bottle squirts up the legs and across the back. She starts o f f at the feet, rubbing, and moves up. The conversation in the next room is aud­ ible. Someone is commenting on the strength o f his masseuse’s hands, then falters. Ten minutes later he offers her an extra $4 to pull him o ff. B u t . . . “ Hand relief is an extra $10 and be sides I’d be a fo o l to accept less” .

She taps lightly on the behind. “ Roll over” .

More sauce bottle and adroit rub­ bing^3) doing a “ U” turn around the dark forbidden triangle o f sex. After some peremptory cracking o f finger

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joints she offers another shower and hands over the same towel. She didnt seem to have grasped the art o f mas­ sage. Or was it that she hadn’t heard o f a rt. . .

The oil will not com e o ff and feels uncom fortable like a new layer o f summer mould on the skin. The girl at the desk is still smiling as the door is approached. She speaks: “ G oodnight” . “ What does ‘In the room the w o ­ men com e and go speaking o f Michel­ angelo’ mean?” “ I’m sorry, what?” (4) “ Thanks and goodnight.”

In the street are some more pros­ pectors — the sort that live under fish and chip wrappers and eat hot gravel.

They thought they could get a dis­ count late at night. * * * THERE is a nucleus o f 6000 people in Melbourne who weekly set ou t on the flesh voyage — from truck drivers to so­ licitors, they crawl from their offices and rigs to feature with the ladies. Some 700 have stabilised in various places, while others traipse about in quest o f the visible manifestation o f Spick & Span, still only l/6 d from newsagents.

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AND with the summer came confusion.

The massage parlor industry - or sim­ ply “ the industry” as it’s known in the trade - is at present under threat o f a group o f Melbourne hoods who are try­ ing to look like Sydney hoods (prob­ ably), or are backed by Sydney hoods (possibly), or are hoods from Sydney (police hypothesis).

The fact is the police were giving answers before any questions had been asked. A bout 12 weeks ago Fred Syl­ vester, chief o f the Victoria Police vice squad, made a tour o f a few massage parlors and told the owners Sydney was to arrive with the force o f five whirlwinds. He went on TV and he told the papers about it. And two weeks later it started . . . *

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IT IS a dark night in Carlton. The time is three weeks past Sylvester’s statement.

A candle butt conversationist walks Lygon street, smelling the cafes and look ­ ing into those bright lighted smoky p ool­ room s that attract womanless men, where he is stopped by a honk from the other side o f the street. A man in a real Fiat wheels around like a swan landing on one wing and winds his left window down.

He leans across and a shadow falls across his face. He is still small, and now mean, everything about him seems to lack pigment. “ Do you know where there are any massage parlors?” The voice is almost high and his lips curl. If he wasnt dri­ ving around Carlton he would have been hanging around a Sharman tent in an out-of-the-way country show. “ T hey’re all around St. Kilda” . “ St. Kilda?” “ Yeah” . “ Melbourne’s a dead place,” he said, b lood y dead! I’ve been here a week and I need some m oney, I’m here to do a jo b on them. Have a look at the front o f me car and y o u ’ll see what I mean.”

He indicates the NSW number plate.

A .38 appears in his hand. “ Is that real?” “ Yeah (opening the chamber and closing it).” “ Yeah its real alright. I’m down fron ^ S ^ d n e^ tc^ d ea n ^ h ese^ ja rlorsou t.

Well, St. Kilda you reckon ?” “ Yeah. G ood luck” . “ Thanks” . There is a long silence while the gun and the persons eye each other. The candle butt conversationist says: “ Well, I better be getting along I’ve got work to d o ” . The visitor winds up the window, then drives away.

There is a curtain call at the local police station. The constables listen to the story smoking vaguely. They are both young but with that co o l apathy which says there are other things on their minds than crime. One o f them picks up a ringing telephone: “ Hallo, Carlton here. Yeah the mighty Blues, not so mighty, no. Next year you reckon, yeah, Maybe, yeah, Crosswell, yeah, terrible. N o, can’t swear you know, yeah w e’ve got a visitor. No, could be. Anyway, this bloke reckons he was just pulled up in the street by a bloke in a real Fiat. Ha Ha yeah red, NSW registration. Yeah, reckons he’s after some massage parlors in St. Kilda.

Yeah . . . Anyw ay, he reckons the blok e’s got a gun. Yeah. In Lygon near Faraday. OK, yeah see y a ” .

He rang o f f and grinned up. “ T hey’re sending a car up to Lygon street to have a lo o k ” . “ He’ll be in St. Kilda by n ow ” . “ Yeah, she’ll be right” . *

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IT IS not easy to learn how deeply the police are involved. All mere fragments.

The vice squad is a small group o f “ ex ­ perienced policem en” . The local police in St. Kildia and Prahran are younger.

There is no real liaison between them. ’ ’It’s fairly easy for the police but a girl. All they do is pay for their mas­ sage and ask for a hand jo b which most places supply. They then produce their card and make out their warrants. The trouble com es on court day where they must swear on affidavit they werent guilty o f com plicity b y having the hand jo b . Or they arrive unannounced and _startjD£emn£_doors;jr h is j^ r e l^ _ w o r k s _ i_

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because the illegal places put locks on the doors.

The best way to bust a place is to find one where the management takes the m oney for the massage and the “ il­ legal service” . If this happens they can bust both the girl and the manageress.

However, if the manageress were a smart cookie, and appealed against the judgment she could continue, with the publicity about the trial supplying the services until the retrial com es up — which means four months o f brisk busi­ ness.

Police on occasions park in their “ D ” wagons outside the parlors, inhibiting the visitors, especially during the business­ men’s shift from 8-10pm. It is alleged the going rate for hiring a wagon to upset a com petitor is $100 per hour.

However the same effect can be easily achieved by affixing a false aerial on the ro o f o f a white Holden. * * * LATE LY Melbourne parlors have under­ gone a spate o f robberies. All seem to be com m itted b y anyone o f the same four men using the same tired knife.

T hey’ve netted about $4000 in the past two months by wandering into the par­ lor at about 11pm when things are quiet and there are on ly one or two girls there.

The four with the rotating knife are o f serious intent and malevolent eye, tattoos and guns. They shrug o f f knife cuts and pitchfork dogs to death. For days and years. They have no dreams; the immediacy o f their world is un­ canny; and their indifference is legion in the parlor land south o f the Yarra.

They are ugly, and fat, with big sticks and no mediators. They have no gods but fear and see no lights but neon.

The four have wishes to take over the business in Melbourne. They already ow n a number o f places and are expan­ ding quickly. One recently ordered 10 new massage tables, which means at least three new salons.

They began some months ago when

one o f the fou r decamped northerly to Sydney to acquire some ladies for his salons. When the fecund blast o f a subtle autumn breeze sloped to the ubi­ quitous warmth o f winter. He drove there in his middle aged Holden and re­ turned in a Monaro. It was blue, the color o f God. There is a violent tale around why it is now hidden in a junk yard in the southern suburbs. Its bat­ tered sides lie hidden under a rotting truck chassis . . .

They started slowly . . . with a few threats, trailing girls home, phoning them, warning that their present em­ ployment was in danger o f deployment Heavy Southern European accents at one am. are well known inducements o f paranoia. Warming to this and armed with news reports o f Sydney hoods they began a grinding process o f intimi­ dation.

First they took a well know n St Kilda “ rent man” on side and had him hassle respectable parlors from the St Kilda Road premises. It is rumored they then began hiring the police cars.

One place had a police car outside five times in three weeks with one official visit.

One night at 4 am a massage parlor owner was locking up. He was then fired upon. He heard the shots smacking into the wall beside him. He noticed a blue Monaro staring at him through two headlights. It carried NSW plates.

Sydney hoods dont com e to Melbourne waving their identikit. * * * ANOTHER owner had his brakelines cut. Not that this was a crass unpro­ fessional job. The lines had been cut through but then retaped with Bandaids, so the lines wouldnt burst until heavy pressure was applied. His car was eventually stopped by a gutter, some asphalt, and a brick fence.

They got into blackmail for a while.

One night three o f them called in on a massage parlor where only tw o girls were working. One waited downstairs while the others had a “ rub” . When they returned from their massage one claimed he had $150 fleeced from his wallet whilst having his massage. The third man said “ Gosh” and the boss said, “ we will give you till tom orrow morning to find it, and while you are looking you might as well arrange for the $150 he intends to lose here every week from now o n ” . * * * THE LADIES are mostly alright. The jo b is no worse than working in the public service, at least for the first week; after which it progressively gets worse. Yet, they earn more m oney than most women o f the same age. They range in personality. One lady who doesnt hold a drivers licence bought a Mustang after she’d been working only four weeks. One has two children and a nice husband and she’s getting some money together for an overseas trip.

Some just work for a couple o f weeks every now and then when they need some money . . . “ It’s a floating population - in the time I’ve been there (one and a half weeks) two got kicked out for shooting up too much and three others left.”

Very few have any jo b enthusiasm.

It’s not particularly callous, they all need money in a hurry and this for them is the quickest way to get it to ­ gether. Rationalisations depend on the hangups, and only a few bother (or

fk ty CufAM. S THE thinking man's 9 6 — Water­ gate — unfolds, w hat is being fo r­ gotten am idst the deluge o f distracting bombshells is how in general terms it all confirm s the scurrilous prophecies o f the hippies and lefties o f the late 60s.

As Washington shudders through an­ other crescendo o f damning revelations, the most irresponsible and stoned head­ line allegations o f the underground press — firs t to spell N ixon w ith a swastika " x " — are all coming true.

It wasnt paranoia after all — the bugger's balmy. Even the porcine e pithet seems justified. The W hite House is n oth­ ing if n o t a moral pigsty.

How deliciously appropriate th a t Rob­ in Askin launches his ludicrous campaign fo r NSW premiership w ith the pledge that " m y government w ill be empowered to do all things necessary to m aintain law and order in the c o m m u n ity " . . . stolen holus bolus fro m the scriptw riters o f Agnew and Nixon.

No other p olitician, possibly apart fro m Uganda's general A m in , could call fo r law and order in th a t tone o f voice w ith o u t cringing from its irony. You fo o l A skin, this slogan is already renowned as the song o f Watergate.

Law 'n order is w hat the W hite House was chanting when the fingers were p u ll­ ed on the triggers at Ken State U niversity . . . when the druggies and dem onstrators were bugged and brutalised en masse . . . when A ttic a was quenched and Kis­ singer's cronies continued to defoliate Vietnam . Askin's electoral catchcry has become the neon-lit hallm ark o f inner hypocrisy.

When faced w ith the p o t/p ro m is c u ity / strikers and students generation, the A skN ix gang always wanted to run 'em over.

In the late 60s it was M r Law'n order himself, John M itchell, the attorneygeneral, w ho personally dished o u t the Academy Awards o f Protest to the Chica­ go Eight.

And the A skN ix's fear pornography.

The NSW Libs seethe w ith censorship bills and N ixon himself, in a manner w hich has since become fa m iliar, once launched a vigorous investigation in to porn, only to reject his com m ittees con­ clusions.

W ith Watergate, however, the key is n o t a lone, crazed individual. N ixon is not an insane Caligula atop a pyram id, m anip­ ulating myriad puppet strings. He is a mixed metaphor o f stolid m iddle class virtues. Nix is fa m ily life and pragmatic marriages, patriotism , C hristianity, real­ ism, hamburgers, money, a m b itio n, m il­ itarism, television and Sammy Davis Jnr. That's w h y Watergate is much more than a scandal o f one adm inistration. It is a crisis o f m iddle class Am erican values on every level. The Pentagon demanded a corrupt president, to com ply w ith w ar lies; big business required a greasy finger­ ed money grubbing fan o f capitalism , to choke th e ir maraudings; B illy Graham needed another charlatan; and the A m eri­ can people co u ld nt bear the thou ght th a t their kids m ight be right, so they backed a know n hustler o u t o f crude fear fo r th e ir property, p ro fit and prejudices.

They backed the black kn igh t and in a w ay deserve w hat th ey're b lo o dy well getting.

When the kids asked fo r cake N ixon answered w ith Mace and all those w ho were afraid o f th e ir little shop w indow s shattering applauded like thunder, caus­ ing a Republican landslide.

The moral holocaust o f Watergate can­ not be rectified by a d e ft round of congressional mazurka. It w ill end on ly when society is not prostrate before the feet o f a lie — a lie th a t life is to do w ith personal prosperity, being admired and w ielding power.

Now people are waking up; the Ask­ N ix's are desperate to distract. One man's Opera House opening is another man's Middle East war.

When A skin is landslided home and sets the police on to strikers it w ill be tim e to put aside the pinups o f perfect mas­ ters, skip the fem inist therapy classes and take to the streets in solid a rity w ith the green guerrillas. Unless his' equivalent to impeachment comes first.

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can cop e) with rationalisations. They merely grasp away at the oily phalluses with cash registers in their e y e s . . . “ No it doesnt worry me, I need the bread and they are willing to spend it; it’s just a pricey com fort station. Some o f the girls try and give a sensual mas­ sage, but it depends on how tired you are. It gets hard to stimulate much in­ terest after you have worked for eight hours. I give a straight massage then whack them o ff, I’m not in it for the titillation — I dont believe in that. A l­ though it’ s the only way to build up regular clients and that’s where the money is” .

There are some especially lovely la­ dies who are slowly and obviously des­ troying something in themselves by working in that atmosphere. They have heard o f every way a family can be broken up, all the workers d o is match jo b notes. And then there’s the pissed and arrogant businessmen who hit the massage parlors when the new sexuality hit the suburbs.

There’s also a relatively thin stream o f young kids who are figuring on a little bit o f decadence. *

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“ SWEENEY” , over lunch with three masseuses, provided some answers. One was a vegemite roll addict and the other three had veal parmigiana with con ­ versation running free as junket in a hot tin spoon. “ A t first I felt threatened, I’ve never seen so many erections, but the thing that really annoys me is the guys who take so long to com e . . . you can get a really sore arm.” “ I usually lie doton beside them” . “ W hy?” “ Compassion? I’m not sure; they o b ­ viously have some fantasy o f warmth - and there’s me standing there with m y bra o ff and a handful o f oil. They usually close their eyes and dont move until th ey’re going to com e and then they usually grab for your tits. Very few (about five percent) have asked me to drop my pants, I can’t understand it. They just d o n ’t seem interested.”

"D o they say anything?” “ Yes afterwards, a lot o f them really believe they have to give pleasure to you, it’ s usually something like “ How can I make you happy?” And I d on ’t know how to answer that. I cant say give me five dollars and I’ll let you suck m y tits, or leave a bigger tip. Oh, and then a few o f them drop the old Hine about what’s a nice girl . . . and because I was stoned it c u t'fo r a while until I realised how pathetic they were — it’s so obvious what they’re really saying . . . ” “ What?” “ It’s just a let down, and they feel embarrassed as y ou ’re wiping the come o f f them with a tissue. Their drunken fantasies w on ’t sustain that” .

They started to play Kathy Kirby on the juke b o x as the party left for the park. The one in the sun. The trees started running around. “ I had a guy who couldnt com e unless he was verbally excited’. What do you say when someone asks you to talk dirty? How nice it is in the park” . She yawns and draws a stocking up.

Park and lunch pass. We are back at work, sitting in the girls room , looking around. The boss enters and the girls begin to be busy. He is upset, actually pissed o f f because his best girl has taken an overdose "because her hippy mate slept with another woman, I think she’s OK, I’ll go and see her soon” . “ Do you like her?”

smiles as she sought an articulate des­ cription: “ These guys go through all their routines when you walk past them in the street — from the eyeballs to the nudges. Sort o f a truncated war dance in Mike Treloar suits and thin rimmed sunglasses. A nd y o u ’d be surprised how many end up here” .

She digresses singing: “ Sons o f the arse-licking dying regime” . She’s seen the film four times and still wont believe its Marxist. “ When they arrive here I take com m and — it’s easy be­ cause it’s as if they feel they were forced here, and they are on their guard from the start because they dont know what to expect. I stand very close and on ly tell them about the topless or “ executive” rubs, hinting there might be a little more, which they always fall for because they dont want to start o f f by antagonising me * * * “ Then they’ll try and impress with talk o f m oney or the business which DOWNSTAIRS, away from the seamy and tepid air, and out the d oor breath­ was started with bleeding hands and a ing. Three young men are standing hum­ rusty nail. It’s a game I’ve played so often I just can’t lose any m ore. Jesus ming, moving from fo o t to fo o t and I’ve probably more m oney than they generally being unsure. have” . “ What’s it like in there?” asked the “ What about the other girls?” one in light summer slacks and desert “ They are all fairly puritanical about boots. sex. One asked me how to tell her “ What are you after?” daughter about it and when they talk (He turns to his friends, who are about screwing which is seldom — it’s nudging each other.) always described as relief massaging — “ Is it expensive?” they divorce themselves com pletely. “ Reasonable: depends what you That’s why very few get into sucking want.”

— it’s hard to remain objective when “ Oh, then it’s O K is it?” it’s between your teeth.” “ Y ou w on ’t be able to get a screw “ D op e?” first tim e.” “ A bout half the girls smoke and “ Oh no - we just wanted a mas­ half o f them are on harder stuff. They sage anyway” . are only 18, but lo o k much older; I (The other parts o f the “ w e” had couldnt believe it. They buy clothes disappeared b y now - he notices it.) from Georges, expensive perfumes etc. “ Oh Jesus, those gutless wonders, it’s Also the drugs take up a lot o f the the fourth place w e’ve visited tonight.”

He went to a nice Alfa R om eo with a weekly cheque.”

(Hillary had once been a waitress in Right to L ife sticker. a St Kilda nightclub, which for a while Back inside to a room o f faces full was the centre o f a very heavy push­ o f anticipation; small trains puffing Marling operation.) boros between thoughts. By now there Ever since a Lebanese restaurant in are seven relationships (though the word Melbourne got a kick/through/the d oor/ is discredited) in the offing and a quaint bust, the city’s drug scene has been expectancy o f Eiffel Tower legs be­ undergoing a perceptible shift to a striding splay fo o te d bodies on hard different resident ethnic pushing group. benches. The boss arrived and flicked The four men mentioned earlier his eyes at me. Down the passage and have established some sort o f liaison with into a back room , re-entering the house the ring through a gambling club in from a side door. A very special client Gertrude Street, Fitzroy had arrived with $120 and we were to The first part o f the plan — Plan A observe unseen.

- seems to be something like this: One lady was on the bench manipu­ It’s pretty obvious the fou r are setting lating herself with a dildo. He was being up other parlors to be busted when­ undressed b y a naked lady. He said ever they care to bring the police in. something to her and she went across There is one fellow in particular who to the bench and started sucking the is supplying a lot o f free dope to other lady. He then fucked b oth o f girls in com petition massage parlors. them, and it was all over in 15 min­ Although the girls are very particu­ utes. lar about keeping hard drugs o f f the He cleaned his nails in the waiting premises they dont mind so much room before he left. “ I flash my ant­ about the hash. lers on the air and though they spurn “ Dear Hillary, what o f the future?” me from their door my soul shall “ It’s coo l. I’ll get a little more spurn them evermore” . bread together - ha ha - maybe open “ Hillary” came in. All the ladies had a place o f my own, ha ha . . . ” respect for her because she was older and at 25 revealed a laconic indiffer­ FO O TN O TE S ence which you felt she’d earned. A (1) Thomas Hardy, Far From The one time anarchist turned mystic, she Madding Crowd. could dive o f f a pier, hit a submerged (2) T. S. Eliot. pylon and still com e up smiling. Her (3) Eliot: “ Let the rocks groan with resilience was legion. continual surges” .

Hillary revisited her old political (4) Raymond Chandler: stamping grounds and impressed her “ What does ‘In the room the women friends with some nice analogies: "Bare come and go talking o f Michelangelo the prick and their soul unravels its mean?” turgid machinations.” In the kind light “ It means whoever wrote it doesnt she looked suspiciously like Tuesday know much about women.”

Weld. There was an armchair o f

“ We take an interest in our girls; we like to have a happy situation here, but we dont question or involve ourselves with what they do outside the times they work here” . “ What sort o f girls d o y o u em ploy?” “ They vary, there are a lot o f St Kilda hippies; they bring their friends in, a few university types w ho never last long, but they are g ood value while they last; then there are the older ones, who have been in the game in different ways for years — th ey’re g ood to have around.”

They all like the boss, h e’s generally concerned, gets them o f f the premises with a special system and carries a gun, but not because he’s paranoid. A man had just com e in that morning saying he was a policeman and he wanted pro­ tection m oney. Fortunately there was another policeman already in attendance; for different reasons.

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IL L 1 A M R IC K E T T S is 78 years old. For the past 42 years he has been living on M o u n t Dandenong at O linda, Victo ria, shaping, m oulding his vision w ith the bush. The W illiam Ricketts Sanctuary is open every day: go there, go gently and w ith your mind open.

RICKETTS’ CREDO " I f I were to te s tify u n to m yself then it w o u ld n o t be valid, therefore I must say u n to you there is no a rtist here, no sculptor here. The mover o f the me is here, Love giving o f itself — not pos­ sessing, not to be possessed. You are asked to respond to this forest scene not just as a human conceDt, but rather to see in the w hole scene ihe attem pt to translate the earth and all its form s in to the language o f the s p irit, thereby revealing the re a lity behind the socalled material (w hich in tru th is D i­ vine Substance).

"T h is lovely forest scene has been created not fo r the renunciation o f the w o rld and life, but rather as a spec-' tacle and a basic s p iritu a lity that in­ vites the human race in a w o rld sick and going w rong to once again dip their w hole man roots in to this sus­ taining soil and fro m there be moved by the higher spiritual consciousness, to em body a greater life o f the S pirit.

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slavery to ignorance, and w orshipping his new found God o f science he is a stationary creature unable to reach out and above in to the higher radiant de­ grees o f the higher tru th consciousness.

"B eyond organised religion and all man's in s titu tio n s this lovely forest scene presents itself as the u ltim a te in W ild Life Preservation through a D ivin ­ ised Earth, where freedom in its vastness and where all divisions and lim ita tio n s cease to exist this is a H oly State o f being. Beauty love and w onder in its same vastness o f meaning is also a H oly State o f being. Health and Peace is also a H o ly State o f Being.

"T h is b e autiful m ountain forest scene now presents itself as a d ire ct action of the sp irit, challenging those w ho call themselves conservationist and w ild life preservation bodies also organised re­ ligion as it is now.

"Those fig h tin g fo r the rights of W ild Life and their environm ents have failed badly to understand th is sanctuary as the u ltim a te in W ild Life Preser­ vation lifte d up to the higher truth consciousness. V isito rs from all over the w o rld come here and, as one American m inister o f religion said to me, " I should close my church doors and send my people in to this forest and not say one w ord to th e ,"

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OUNG Phil O'Carroll padded into the poverty inquiry in Melbourne last Thursday with the dust o f the Murray riverbanks on his naked feet and put it to them that for chrissakes while they were trying to fix it so that one and all could live in at least frugal com fort they should also make sure that the official comm unity didnt try to interfere with those who choose to drop out o f the ratrace and embrace what others might call poverty because it en­ abled them a way o f life they wanted.

Phil, 28, realised in the middle o f lecturing on philosophy at ANU last year that the whole thing was miserable and boring. It was time, he calculated, to put his philosophical feet where his mouth was - so he shucked his shoes and took to the road. Cur­ rently he’s living up near Albury in a cart, with a horse, his two year old daughter, whose given name is Jesus, and her mother Jewel Eastgate.

He makes as much o f a crust as they need for the body by doing mucky jobs around the local farms and picking the occasional peach. As for the soul - or whatever you might more proper­ ly call it - they live and love and all that sort o f thing and Phil writes a bit o f philosophical mus­ ing that he doesnt expect anyone to publish and talks with anyone who will listen or talk back.

Phil has a bit o f a personal bitch with the establishment — particularly in the guise o f the child welfare department and the wallopers — on account o f how they seem to think young Jesus is not living the sort o f life a bird o f such tender years should be living and they are constantly harassing Phil and Jewel on this score.

But what he had to say to the poverty inquiry was on more gen­ eral terms. What he suggested was that there should be a universal pension provided by the state freely available, with no questions asked or conditions tied to it.

This, he argued, would give real social security to the citizenry - a thing which up to date has not been greatly achieved.

By all means, he said, make sure that everyone got a fair slice, if not o f the comm unity cake, at least o f the nourishing wholemeal bread, but lay o f f those experi­ menting with different lifestyles.

Fair crack o f the whip was what he called for those who didnt want to wear shoes, or live in houses, or get married, or go to work on a regular basis.

And indeed O ’Carroll has something. The lives — between

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desperation - that most o f us live need something to make them medium rare bearable. And almost without exception this something is a thing that the establishment will look at with suspicion and distrust.

I would hasten to add that this meanness o f spirit if not natural in mankind, it is something that is imposed on us by the pressures o f unnatural society. I remember one fine Summer’s day I was fornicat­ ing (with one o f my wives I regret to say) on a quiet stretch o f the Yarra riverbank round below the Boulevard. And suddenly round the bend o f the river stroked an eight o f high school boys.

And they stopped, shipped oars and cheered, these golden lads - not out o f prurience or derisive nastiness but with lusty heartfelt delight that such things could be.

They were warmingly alive and innocent in the morning o f the world at that mom ent - I wonder if they’re alive now and how they’re liking it?

My old mate Jimmy Wigley . . .

Jimmy the Wig . . . an artist, and a good o n e . . . what they would

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JOHN HEPWORTH call mad o f course . . . he tackled problems in his ow n way. There he was lecturing at the RMIT . . . referred to as mister Wigley by the tealady and the girl on the switch­ board . . . shoes on his feet and an umbrella against the rain . . . and m oney in the paypacket every second Thursday.

There he was with a piece o f chalk in his hand drawing on the blackboard and a collection o f young thugs who thought they wanted to be artists hanging on his words. And suddenly he stop­ ped and looked out the window and he thought. Then he looked at the young thugs and he said: “ Y ou poor little buggers, you.

Here I am with the chalk in m y hand standing here telling you how to draw circles and squares and hypoteneuse and logarithms because you think you want to be artists - ARTISTS! And outside, there, there’s people walking and crawling and running and jumping and fighting and singing and LIV­ ING. Y ou p oor little buggers you, I dont know what arrangements y o u ’re going to make, but I'm going out to join them .”

And he threw his chalk away and walked ou t and as he went past the reception desk the girl on the switchboard said: “ Oh mister Wigley, mister Tomlinson wants to see y ou .” But he never went back. N ot ever.

He came to see me late that night. He’d spent some time bark­ ing back at all the dogs who had barked at him as he came down the street. And he drank the last o f my gin and then drank the water out o f the vase with the geraniums in it and then ate the geraniums. Then he punched his brother who was also visiting me at the time and he went away to Arnhem Land to live with a tribe o f black people and he did a fine piece o f work in ochre and crayon called Singing the Sun Down. And for all I know he is living there yet and may even be happy.

N ot all o f us can d o a Wigley, but we all need something. For myself I found from my tenderest years that drinking to excess, gen­ erally inducing a state o f sodden wreckedness, falling about and shouting and occasionally waking

up in the middle o f the night and pissing into friends’ pianos, served ime very well.

Then all o f a sodden, in m y declining years, I have abjured the juice. It is, I assure you, a deeply traumatic experience. Apart from the appalling sensation o f feeling well, you dont know what to d o with your hands.

My young, with touching filiality have rallied round me. “ Everloving father,” they urge, “ take up the grass. Y ou ’ve got to have something.” I am as I say deeply touched by their concern, but somehow the grass is not my scene. Still they are right in that I have to have something. And I have found it. I AM A BAMBOO GROWER. A sort o f gnarled root o f the stuff was given to me by my friend Terry Brain who flies very ancient aircraft to King Island and whose hangar cat invariably has her kittens in the engine cowling so that they travel extensively back and forth across Bass Strait long before their eyes are open.

I planted Brian’ s unlikely stump in m y smallish court back­ yard - AND IT HAS GROWN. It has grown some thirty fo o t high and thick as a rain forest and has spread all along the back fence and engulfed the Hills hoist where people once used to hang their clothes out to dry and it blocks the back d oor and claws at the window and has torn dow n the guttering and is forcing its way under the edge o f the roof. It is magnificent.

Most o f my friends and visitors look at it with frank disbelief and barely concealed alarm. Their voices instinctively drop to a whisper when they urge me to cut it back - cut it back, the vandalistic bastards. They dont under­ stand what it’s all about.

Save for one. A drunken and altogether admirable thespian who forced his way out into the court­ yard one night and came back bleeding and dishevelled, but glowing with admiration and de­ light. “ The courtyard,” he said reverently. “ The bam boo. It’s magnificent. It’ s superb. It’s made the whole area so com pletely and absolutely and beautifully unfunc­ tional. It’s great. G R E A T .”

So that is how - despite being in the habit o f going to work and wearing shoes most o f the time and having given up the booze after a lifetime devoted to it - I manage to survive in this improb­ able world. I am a bam boo freak.

I need my bam boo. Without it life would be filled with that same sort o f involuntary shame and despairing help and hopelessness that one feels when, having front­ ed absentmindedly to the urinal, one finds that one is inadvertently on e’s own boot. I I

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FOR MNDMEN ONLY T h e y ’re making a film of Hermann Hesse’s novel, Steppenw olf. For the people behind the p ro je ct.. M el Fishm an and Fred Haines — it has been a crazy uphill trek, with Fishm an hassling for finance and Haines getting lost in the book’s history.

M IC H A E L ZW EK IN becam e caught in

the works in its early stages . Here he takes us back to 1971... Next week: on the set.

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Fred Haines

OME PEOPLE thrive on legends and Mel Fishman is one such person. Hermann Hesse is a legend, so is his book Steppenwolf, which they said could not be made into a film. * In fact Hermann said no in his will. Fish­ man could disappear behind a legend like th a t. . .

Few folks understand the art o f n ot making movies. The movie can be the not-making-of-it if only som ebody has a camera.

On his last film, Fishman was as usual in pre production, living on the arm, as Jackie Gleason describes such a situation, in a suite at the London Hilton. Eking out some budget, friends surviving on his room service, the trays lined down the hall from Mel’ s door.

He remembered the legend, this thing n obody could ever get, the perfect exit. One needs a number in this situation to dis­ appear into the unknown. In comes Rick Herland, president o f a small distribution company. Mel laid the legend on him. Herland was a goldminer for a while, he respects the grubstake hustle. “ H ow much d o you need?” he asked. “ Three hundred bucks. What do you want for 300 bucks?” “ Half.” “ Right.” What’ s the differ­ ence? Dickering at that point would be insanity. It can’ t happen anyway, that’ s the legend.

The perfect existential situa­ tion. Y ou can’t fail when you ’ re trying for something everybody knows can’ t happen. Mel spent the three bills on a pair o f Cardin boots.

Agent Clive Goodw in wrote a letter to Hesse’s publisher in Frankfurt. The answer, translated by a friend, was negative. Trans­ lated again by another, some nuance was added . . . Why should we start thinking o f this problem?

Who are you to put it in our heads? Dare you burden us with this?. . .

After a leisurely dinner, Mel drove to Victoria Station in a friend's Rolls Royce. One must proceed slowly and in style seek­ ing the impossible. He wasnt even

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thinking about what to d o when he got there. This wasnt some­ thing that was going to happen there. It was happening now.

In Frankfurt it was raining, but the picture o f Brecht outside the o ffice of the president of Suhrkamp Verlag Publishers was smiling. Mel smiled back and en­ tered: “ I’d like to make this movie and I really dont know how to approach it. But I promise to try and keep it as difficult as possible.” Wait, they said . . .

Fortunately Mel had practised waiting for 10 years in his garage in L.A., with a pet chicken.You can’t afford to get bored, other­ wise you start doing a bunch o f arbitrary shit just to keep busy. It becomes difficult to separate the real from the self-created. Y ou must be able to lay low indefinite­ ly in some place like Basel, which Mel was uniquely qualified to do.

After some six months, mostly laying low, he convinced Heiner Hesse, Hermann’s son in charge o f the estate, that while kids may be buying S teppenw olf they werent really reading it. A film would get Hesse’s message to an entire new generation. Old Hermann would approve. This would be a work o f art, o f love, o f total dedication.

It is essential, on a number like this, to keep contact with the outside world. Mel would write Rick Herland: “ I think such and such is happening is it true send m oney.” If the money came Mel knew he was fixing feedback cor­ rectly, that the scene was still upright. Money is a check on reality.

The S teppenw olf price was finally set at something over $US100,000. Each time he fails to meet the deadline, the option gets extended with a partial payment and the price goes up. While Mel sees cigar-chompers in London, Rome, New York. He’s pacing the floor, tugging his moustache: “ Oh shit! I wish I was back in that garage with my chicken. I dont know what the fuck to do. I mean w e’re really in trouble.

T hey’re charging me $175,000.

That’s SOME F A V O R ! Right? I got hustled. I know it. I KNOW IT !!! It’s the old Spanish prisoner hustle. I AM FUCKED! I’ve spent every cent I had on this. Herland’s in even deeper. We got hustled simultaneously. The rights keep running out. It’s always going back to Frankfurt and each time we find them in bigger and better offices. How com e? And have you notices? Every six months there’s another Hermann Hesse book .

WHO’S WRITING T H E M ???!!!

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Cut to number nine Lindenstrasse in the suburbs o f Basel, headquarters o f the Steppenwolf Service company. Fred Haine at his typewriter, shivering. Heat is minimal and the neighbors are hostile. Y ou could almost mistake Fred for Fishman . . . moustache, mid-30s, outsized pullover, ur­ bane, cynical, gentle acid eyes.

Fred thinks for a while, pulling smoke. Old Hermann looks down approvingly from the wall. Fred types: “ Mel Fishman is paranoid and depressive, so that he always sounds as though he’s about to commit suicide or vanish into the jungles o f Yucatan. Those o f us sitting here in Basel wondering how we got here are largely living out Mel’ s fantasy.” 'k THIS is a prospectus: “ THE BOOK IS THE STAR. When Ban­ tam Books brought out the first paperback edition o f S teppen w olf in 1970 it sold 360,000 copies in the first 30 days. Bantam now has 790,000 copies in print and is re-issuing the book again.

Five years have passed since

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was granted such a place during the First World War. Hermann Hesse was born Swiss. He grew up mostly in Ger­ many and was naturalised Ger­ man. In 1916, taking refuge from World War One in Bern, he pub­ lished an article called Oh Friends, N ot These Tones which was a mild plea that the war should not end world culture. He said it was absurd for the French to burn Goethe as for the Germans to burn French books. He was irrv mediately attacked as a traitor.

The hostile reaction plus per­ sonal problems freaked him and he put himself under the care o f a Dr Lang, a disciple o f Jung. The relationship between them is adumbrated in Demian, which re­ sulted from it.

By 1917 Hesse felt he had been reborn. He even took a new pen name - Emile Sinclair.

The old career, writing enter­ tainments, was over. The dividing line falls at Demian. From Demian on, the books are important, be-, fore that only interesting. But his health was rotten . . . a botched eye operation, sciatica, and he developed gout. He took opium regularly for the pain and drank a lot, which made the gout worse.

He wrote Steppenw olf living miserably alone in Basel and Zu­ rich. At the time he was convinc­ ed he was invisible.

Although the elite, Thomas Mann for instance, fell hard for Steppenwolf, the public did not.

They preferred Hesse’s old roman­ tic entertainments. There was a strong back-to-nature movement in Germany after the war and writing about the underworld, rid­ ing around in big cars, jazz, dope, and whores was considered a bourgeois cop-out.

These things represented upperclass degeneracy. The thing to do was hike with a pack on your back singing folk songs, a return to the simple life, “ real” values, a “ wholesome” Germany. Which soon enough, o f course, turned into Hitler Youth.

S teppenw olf is very nearly autobiographical. There is much less fiction in the b ook than one imagines. He was writing the b loody novel as he was living it, in a sense he wrote himself back to health.

Haines has had plenty o f time to study Hesse, over a year in Basel laying low. The Steppenwolf Service Company knows how to hang loose.

But Fred’s waiting: “ I want to direct. People always told me writing was the best way to break into directing. But now that I’ve had zero acceptance with that, I’ve decided to go straight for the big prize. It’s funny, though, be­ cause I think I’m one o f the ten best screen writers in the world and most o f my friends d o to o so DURING the middle ages, Basel I’ m always intrigued by the pos­ was for books what H ollywood sibility . . . if I keep pressing on it became for films. The best binders just a little harder, a little longer. and engravers were in Basel and “ The only way I’m going to writers came here for production. direct this picture is if I stay right It runs on pharmaceuticals, ch o co ­ here on top o f it and fight every­ lates, money, and time. It runs body off. I really believe in this quietly. Switzerland is like living movie, I believe in the novel, I in a bank. The Swiss learned years believe in its commercial possibil­ ago that the world needed a place ities, I think the Hesse phenom­ to keep its secrets and they pro­ enon is more than just a booksell­ vide it. er’s delight.

A conservative country, fear­ While Mad Melvin circles the lessly bourgeois, quite right, the globe in search o f inencumbered Swiss nevertheless see themselves risk capital, moaning: “ What are as the people who preserve culture all those people doing in Basel? while everybody else goes mad. It You saw them. They’re counting is hard to forget that the Nazis on me, the rats. Isnt that shitty o f were just over there across the them? Whyaretheywaiting? ? ! !”

Rhine. “ That night . gave me back The Swiss take pride in their the unrelenting radiance o f m y beautiful little country providing own life and made me recognise a traditional place o f asylum, al­ chance as destiny once more and though only for the important see the ruins o f m y being as and rich it’s true. Hesse who fragments o f the divine. ” j— | was extremely well known and P H O T O S : IS A HESSE7 widely read during his lifetime -

incredibly thrilled. It was only later that the question came up and I checked. It was seven L oth ­ ringerstrasse. We’d been in the house next door.

"Y o u see . . . ” Fishman jumps with glee " . . . That’s his p rob­ lem. That’s Fred’s problem. He knew everything he was supposed to feel. He got the right feeling in the wrong house. Fred’s always getting the flash before the fix .”

Fred Haines has been flashing for years, writing screenplays o f Day o f the Locust (shot dow n ) Tropic o f Cancer (shot dow n), Ulysses (nominated for an Oscar), and now Steppenw olf, all o f which has led to bankruptcy: “ There arent very many people who want a Fred Haines script on anything. When I was nominated for an Academ y Award for Ul­ ysses, I thought . . . oh wow , it’s really going to take o ff now. I’ ve been dying to sell out all my life . . . here I am! And the phone never rang. Imagine writing a screenplay o f Ulysses. Dont even think about writing a good one, just doing it is pretty heavy, right?

But how many people want an­ other Ulysses? ” Fred, one o f those people about w hom it might be said “ he’s to o g o o d ” has bad luck. He wrote a little com edy set in Brazil, an original, which had some interest­ ing things going for it, principally that it could be shot for beans, but som ebody died and the prop­ erty got tied up in an estate. Then a biography o f Lucky Kuciano but the cigar-chompers couldnt figure it out.

He wrote a screenplay for Jan Kadar (Adrift). Kadar told him to go flat-out and Fred wrote a wild surrealist script but Kadar chang­ ed his mind and decided to d o a neo-realist movie which brings us to Mad Melvin and old Hermann.

"T h e lovely thing about my professional career as a screen writer is the heads I’ve lived with.

What if the life o f Lucky Luciano had been an enormous success?

I’d still be writing gangster films.

I’d have spent the m oney anyway and would be no better o f f than with this life o f endless failures.

I’m willing to make it on a very low financial level. I dont dream o f great wealth. But it is incredi­ bly depressing to write screenplay after screenplay and see them go . . . vanish. Y ou can’t keep putting it ou t all the time if something doesnt com e back.

One o f the things wrong with our time is that art has to be so strident in order to capture a little passing moment o f the public’ s attention. Y ou feel you have to jolt people, shock them to get their attention.

Fred shivers again. We pan out­ side . . .

Mad Melvin embarked on the im­ possible. Pre-producing Steppen­ w olf has becom e a way o f life.

Seymour, a cameraman from Los Angeles, resembles a cross between Rip Van Winkle and Wil­ liam Tell and speaks English with a German accent b y now. Joel Block goes into the o ffice every day, next door to where Fred types, to send accounts to New York. (Pocket m oney dribbles back.)

Punchdrunk, he asks: “ What am I doing in Basel!” Fred Haines is learning German so he can read Hesse in the original, and working on a documentary about him. There are more o f them unseen upstairs, plus wom en and children . . . all waiting on Mad Melvin. “ There was o n ce a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on tw o legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a w olf o f the Steppes. He had learned a good deal o f all that p eop le o f a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had n ot learned, however, was this; to find contentm ent in himself and his own life." “ In the winter o f 1924, Hesse was living alone in Basel, in an attic room on Lothringerstrasse . . . ” Fred Haines has been delv­ ing into Hesse archives: “ We . . . went there one day and saw this guy going into number nine. He looked at us strangely, we were just standing in front o f his house, looking at it. We said hello to him and Francy, my wife, said we were looking at his house because Hermann Hesse once lived in it. “ It took the guy some time to figure out what we were talking about. He looked like y o u ’d imagine the bourgeois narrator who writes the introduction to the book. He didnt seem to know too much about Hermann Hesse, but he was very gracious and asked us if w e ’d like to com e in and look around. And, by G od . . . there it was . . . the w ooden stair­ case, the landing with the arancaria plant, the frosted glass win­ dow . We were on hallowed ground.

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I said to b loggs y o u ’ve never yet been to an acm e ro ck dan ce, it’ s high tim e y o u w ent. Bloggs m ur­ m ured som eth in g uninteresting but m anaged to articulate a le t’s went to space it all ou t. He stu m bled thru the d o o r after tripping over a pink rose in the floral carpet. Y o u can tell b loggs has been a rou n d , just b y lo o k in g at his feet — especially his n on -p a cifist toes. A lady o n the eve o f departure to India to ld bloggs n ot to d estroy him self, and gave him a lead fish to hang a rou n d his n eck . S in ce then I ’ve n o tice d that he has som etim es sto p p e d kicking in to things.

B loggs arrived at the acm e ro ck p lace foreg rou n d w ith his m oth er’ s um brella and a ru sted, crescent shaped p iece o f tin. He an n ou n ced that it was the m o o n o f the sp otted je lly fish, and that this s y m b o l w ou ld blen d in h arm on iou sly w ith the oth er d elu x e rubbish stored in the rear o f the palace. O ne o f the m en foreg ath ered gazed spuriously at the sky o f bloggses. O ne g rou p were g oin g to drink in a dry d o c k , the oth er w ere g oin g to the in terior o f the acm e m ecca . I said to bloggs,

it’ s divided loy a lties what are y o u going to d o . He thus spaketh w h ere’ s the strength, to n o o n e in particular.

A lady lo o k e d at b loggs. He o p e n e d his right palm to her and asked w h ere’ s the d o p e . T h e y w en t inside to w h ere the a cm e r o c k ban d were d oin g an in ju stice to getting them selves togeth er. S eeing the d o p e lying ritualistically in the centre o f a ro u n d table, b log g s said to all in general m ind if I d o a num ber. W hile actively p articip at­ ing in the ajax a trocities b loggs rolled an elephant ear. T h e y all paused fo r five secon d s to listen and then returned to the fray. O n e o f the m o re p o e tic o f the a cm e ro ck band suggested that it was a g o o d life. Bloggs rem arked that it was g o o d d o p e . His friends grinned w ry ly , n otin g that b loggs saw all d o p e that was fre e ly given as being g o o d . A lad y, self styled c h ie f g rou p ie, o b served that b loggs had b e e n living w ith them fu ck in g h ippies up n orth fo r t o o lon g . B loggs said som eth in g uninteresting and asked her t o save him a dance. T h e ban d w en t o f f in a weight to the institute to get the scene rock in g . T h e tw o friends and b loggs stayed at the palace w ith a k in d ly p ig eon shitting in their c o ffe e cups. T h e y d e cid e d in stan tly that c o ffe e was an u p p e rd o w n e r o f first class m agnitude and refrained fro m drinking the rest. T h e m an said that the oth ers w ere co m in g fr o m the p u b to give them a lift. T h e y never fro n te d . F eeling b e n e v o le n t, b loggs said fu c k it, le t’ s w alk in th e rain.

O ne h ou r and m u ch hysteria later, the intrepid three arrived at the institute w ith a w et blan k et. Bloggs ritualistically threw it at th e left speaker. T h e band h a d n ’t drunk m o re than a d o z e n cans, so th e m usic o n ly had a m etro beat. T w o d ozen pairs o f arms p u lled sw eaty hands o u t o f co n ce a lm e n t and fo ld e d them across o n e d o z e n so o n -to -b e -d e v e l­ o p e d breasts. Several gum ch ew ing m om en ts later, the hands returned t o co n ce a lm e n t — som e even crossed their legs. T w o lo ca l y o u n g misses o n three f o o t w edgies b o p p e d it to each o th e r across tw e n ty fe e t in centre hall. T he three w en t u p the p u b. A fte r p o lite d iscu ssions o n the relative m erits and dem erits o f hauterne, th ey in trep id ly shared the costs o f a fla g on o f s o ck . Feeling in adequ ate, b log g s a ttem p ted to pre-em pt discu ssion b y ord erin g tw o d o z e n o ld p o rt cigars. T he b o ttle sales lady lo o k e d at him and to ld that this w asn’ t a m ilk bar.

Bloggs step p ed o u tsid e t o see if there were o n e up the roa d . T here was. He step p ed b a ck inside and d e cid ed that it was t o o w et t o say anything. T he la d y friend suggested getting paper cu p s fo r the band to drink o u t o f. B loggs said fu c k it, th e y ’re all rom a n tics — let ’ em drink fr o m the fla g on . T h e sales b o ttle lady lo o k e d at him again and asked him i f he ate m eat.

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c o m e d o w n o f f the th ron e and left his gleam ing h end rix resting against a fu ll-v olu m ed am p. T h e jo k e r reach ed fo r tw o cans o f t o o h e y ’ s flag. I k n ew he was g ettin g warm .

B loggs sucked o n a jo in t that appeared fro m the left and dis­ a ppeared to the right. H e k ep t his eyes o p e n . N o t bad shit he said.

He b u rp ed and sm ok e tu m b le d ou t.

A s m o re sm ok e issued fo r t h I reach ed fo r the fla g on and drank w ith m y eyes shut. T h e y began playing even m o re lou d er. I o p en e d m y eyes. B loggs grin n ed , his false fr o n t teeth flashing sed u ctiv ely .

Su btle as a horses h o o f in the guts at xm as he said, and stripped d o w n to a blu e singlet w h ich m a tch ed his ey es as som e lady had to ld him (o r so he said she h ad). In the waist o f the lo w slung m auve flared pants — given to him b y som e n orth ern lady (a cco rd in g to b loggs i.e .) was an orange sca rf that dangled betw een his thighs. B loggs adjusted the co p p e r b ra celet fr o m e cu a d o r o n his right w rist, c h e ck e d the earing given to him b y th e o the g reek ’ s w ife and the three c o lo r e d plastic bangles b elon gin g to som e b a b y girl o n his left wrist. He flared the orange scarf and strolled ov er to the jo k e r ’ s n o . 1 grou p ie seated on e f o o t fro m the left speaker. She d id n ’ t bat an eye. He g e n u flected b e fo r e her, bringing his eyes d ow n to m eet hers. H e arch ed a left e y e ­ b row . She lo o k e d o n c e , then q u ic k ly aw ay to the ba n d , shaking her head. F o u r sidew ays steps later, b loggs fro n te d the n o . 2 g rou p ie seated ten fe e t fr o m the left hand speaker. She w as sw eat­ ing b en ea th her mascara w ith the e ffo r t o f sitting so close. Bloggs gestured. She lo o k e d u n c o m fo r t­ able. B loggs signalled to m e to so ck it to her and he m o v e d on d o w n the line. I relu cta n tly gave her the fla g on . She drank w ith ou t spilling a d ro p and h anded it back to m e. I liked her at o n c e (B loggs later to ld m e that she was interes­ ting. I lo o k e d and w aited. He said she’ s g o t style. I w aited. He lo o k e d at m e and asked, y o u w atch h o b o fau lk n er o n television d o n ’ t y o u . I th rew d o w n a w h isk y, neat).

Bloggs lo o k e d at g rou p ie n o . 3 seated tw e n ty feet fro m the left hand speaker and d e cid e d that this was g oin g t o o far. H e sp o tte d a p y g m y walking in to th e hall b low in g a jo in t and p o lite ly asked her fo r a d a n ce. T h e y m ov ed o n t o the un­ polished flo o r . I sat o n th e edge o f the stage. I co u ld see b loggs was getting it o n b y getting it all togeth er, c o o lin g it o u t and bring­ ing it all b ack h om e. I felt like eating w h ite sliced bread. A fte r three b o o g ie s b loggs e sco rted the p y g m y to a trestle seat, w h ich she gratefu lly a cce p te d . He ca m e over to m e ritualistically w ip in g his face and b r o w w ith the orange scarf.

Gissa swig o f the o ld grape. He slob b ered the best part o f it o n to his skin, chin and th roa t, and in to the fur he w ore to keep his th y roid glands warm . Its gu nn er b e a g o o d night he m u m b led Im m a startin to

lo osen up. A jo in t appeared from th e right. He said n o thanks man and pu t the flagon som ew h ere in the vicinity o f his m ou th . G o o d gear he said, ritualistically w iping his chin w ith the orange scarf. I to o k the flagon and ch eck ed its con ten ts. I lo o k e d at bloggs. Y o u b y passed som e m arijuana. It was bad gear m an, it cam e from the right. W e lo o k e d at each oth er. I said y o u m ust co m e t o the laundro m at o n Saturday m orn in gs bloggs.

He said o .k ., I’ ll bring a d eck o f cards. T he band began playing the thirteenth variation o n a them e by jim i. T he m o b fro m the p u b had qu ietly arrived, d rop p in g on e b ottle o f pilsener o n the flo o r . It d id n ’t break. T h e y q u ietly applau ded.

Bloggs w en t over. I th ou gh t y ou bastards were gunner co m e and p ick us up. We did but y o u ’ d all pissed o f f in the rain. A h fu ck , waiting fo r y o u is like w aiting fo r a b o n d i tram — it ’ll b e here n ext c ru cifix io n tim e. F o r g o d ’ s sake bloggs shut up and have a drink.

B loggs acqu iesced. H e and tw o painters stood discussing p o lite ly a recent in h ibition o f the Big W. I w en t over and g ot a drink but s to o d o n the outskirts. It was t o o p olite fo r m e. Bloggs rock e d on his heels and gen tly tapped on e painter in the chest. T he best thing that cou ld happen fo r painting in australia is fo r b o b fin lay son and brett w h itely to m eet on the edge o f a cliff. T he oth er painter handed him a jo in t and told him to get it in to him . Bloggs obliged and hit them b o th w ith a bu n ch ed fist gen tly in the biceps. L et’ s get it o n and e n jo y this b lo o d y dance he yelled. He b orrow ed a to p hat w h ich had arrived w ith som e hang d o g face and beard attached. He disappeared in to the a p o lo g y fo r a k itchen seeking a m irror. All he fo u n d were three eleven year o ld kids belting a d o o r quite unritualistically w ith their fists. Bloggs felt behind the d o o r and saw that it was o n ly c.s.r. tim b rock . C ’ m on , hit the fu ck in g thing, d o n ’ t pat it.

T he kids stop p ed and lo o k e d at each oth er. T he five secon d s silence drew fo u r oth er kids. W hat, ya giving up already said bloggs m oving closer to th em . O n e o f the elder kids said to him y o u have a g o . Bloggs p o lite ly said I d o n ’ t have to m ate — I’ve g o t a to p hat.

T he kid said gisser lo o k . Bloggs ritualistically to ld him to get his fu ck in g hands o f f o r h e’ d beat his head in. T he kids paused fo r three secon ds. Bloggs laughed and w alked ou t the d o o r in to the acm e m usic. T he scene was beginning to g roove. I cou ld tell the pu b had shut b y the w ay cartons o f cans and flagons k ept k n ockin g in to the am plifiers and each oth er on stage.

3 I kn ew d efin itively , as is m y nature to want to , w h en ju les, the travelling b rew ery and acm e m ascot, lurched in. H e g ot up o n stage and pou red the s tu ff d o w n the th ie f’ s throat as he was th u m pin g the bass w ith the gleam ing n eck erect and his b ack arched. It was th e classical greek p ose, as ex em p lified b y the je w coh en in his latter d ay tragedies.

M y heart w arm ed. Bloggs asked w hy d oesn ’ t the th ief strip. I to ld him last tim e that had h appened there had been a com p lain t tw o weeks later in the loca l paper a b ou t t o o m u ch n oise. He n o d d e d , and went o f f to d o a hip and thigh grind w ith a besp ectacled lady w h o had taken her glasses o f f , shut her eyes and was dancing w ith herself.

T here was som ething m ysterious abou t her. She bu t dim ly per­ ceived bloggs, but he drew her ou t until their upraised palm s kissed in a slow p irou tte o f tou ch in g b o tto m s . I felt like drinking roha herbal tea. T he y ou n g rozelle tou gh ies m ust have felt likewise, as th ey k ep t a ccid en ta lly kicking at bloggs w hile he was intim ately inclined and yelling p o o ft a at him.

Bloggs was ob liviou s to anything but the rh yth m s em anating fro m the y ou n g lad y’ s tight denim shorts.

M ost gratifyin gly t o m e, the acm e m usic sto p p ed b e fo re reaching its ajax. Bloggs ju st sto o d there like an arrogant p e a co ck , helping the lady t o rep lace her glasses, then bow in g lo w to kiss her palm s. The kids were o d d ly silent. Bloggs escorted her to the nearest com b in a tion o f marijuana and w ine, where th ey im b ib e d quite readily. I th ou ght to m y s e lf its all happening. I warm ed u p even further w hen I perceived the th ief baring his b row n , expansive but hairless chest and con sid erable bicep s. I w en t ov er to w here bloggs and the ch ick w ere im bibin g, intruding d iscreetly b y asking her fo r a swig. She grinned sw eetly and lo o k e d at b loggs, w h o said som ething u n in telligib le, like, get ba ck t o y o u r w in d o w son n y, and flick e d a lighted roa ch n ow h ere in particular. I w en t ba ck beh in d the right hand speaker thinking the reverend alan w alker’ s usually ch eery fa ce will surely beam when I m en tion at the next w orld to m o r r o w party that bloggs had forsaken a roa ch and o n e jo in t, all in on e night. I lo o k e d fo r this

truly am azing m an. He had f o r ­ saken the lady fo r sh ou lders and tw o ladies fr o m the p u b .

S houlders had his paisley shirt o p e n to the navel, baring his expansive chest. F o r o n c e , he lo o k e d the w ry, lech erou s b o o g ie -w o o g e r -w h o k n ew -h ow -to-g et-it-on that he really was. H e was disgustingly brilliant. Bloggs w in ked at him and shared a b o ttle o f e x p o r t pilsener w ith him . T h e band began playing n oisily b y kick in g all the em pties o f f stage e x c e p t ju les, w h o was still full. B loggs w hisked on e o f the ladies o n t o th e flo o r .

As the acm e m u sic progressed in true r o x y fa sh ion , I c o u ld see b y the w ay b loggs k e p t flashing his false fron t teeth at her, that he had resigned h im self to th e tight c o n tr o l she m aintained o n her­ self. She lo o k e d everyw h ere, m ostly in to space, e x ce p t at b loog s. Regardless, h e d a n ced with her until she k ept b itin g o n e fingernail. Bloggs, regarding this as a slight u p o n her b e a u ty , kept rem oving the finger fro m her m ou th and gritting teeth . A jo in t arrived fr o m the left. T he lady stop p ed her d a n cin g to suck o n it. Bloggs w aited th en passed the jo in t o n to the right. A ll the tim e, he never t o o k his eyes fr o m hers. I th ou ght t o o fu ck in g m u ch and had a sip fro m som e n earby flagon o f claret. T h e pain fu l bu rn ­ ing all the w ay d o w n fe lt g o o d .

I turned to som e n earby ch ick and said this is w here the a ctio n is m an.

She lo o k e d at m e and retreated, putting her hand o n her la d ’s navel.

I w on d ered what b loggs w o u ld have d o n e in a similar situation .

T he acm e m u sic sto p p e d as n oisily as it had started. Jules was still full. F rom m y v ie w p o in t, I co u ld see the jo k e r and the th ie f c o n ­ sum ing a businessm an’ s w in e. F anF ucking-T astic I th ou g h t. Bloggs and the lady had parted and gon e in separate direction s. Bloggs w ent over to w here o n e o f the b ored teenies was w aiting to b o p it the tw en ty feet to the oth er equally as b ored o n e , and asked

her i f she cared to d a n ce. B e fo re y o u c o u ld say m ed ica l a u th orities warn that sm oking is a health hazard, the o th e r teen ie had w edgied her w ay across th e gap and y elled at b loggs t o piss o ff .

H e laughed g o o d n a tu red ly, and suggested that the three o f them dan ce tog eth er w ith in spitting distance. T h e teen ie sw allow ed her gum , y elled at b log g s that he was a fu ck in g perv, g ra b b ed her m ate w h o was sm iling b y the wrist and dragged her o f f . S om e y o u n g gen tlem an c o n fr o n te d bloggs. Y o u leave m y w ife alon e, d o ya hear. B loggs p o lite ly to ld him to fu c k o f f ; that h e, bloggs, was here to e n jo y him self, regard­ less o f any bastard. T h e y o u th c o n ­ sidered this, and arrived at the c o n ­ clu sion that it was unw arranted and e x trem ely ru de. He th ereb y lashed o u t at bloggses eyes w ith his p o in te d fingers. B loggs rod e it b a ck and he and the y o u th s to o d glaring ritualistically at each o th er. B e fo re y o u c o u ld say p o p , sn u ffle and crap, the earlier tou gh ies appeared beside their sou l b roth er and threatened bloggs.

B e fo re y o u co u ld say, the la d y -o fthe-biting-nail s to o d ritualistically b etw een the kids and b loggs, facin g them w ith her arms o u tstre tch ed beh in d her to con ta in bloggs. I reached fo r the claret and an oth er burn. Things w ere w arm ing up.

B loggs w h eeled the lady aw ay b y the waist to the left speaker, where their friends w ere. T h e kids fo ll­ o w e d . T urning a rou n d , b loggs saw them co m in g thru the c r o w d . He said y o u little bastards, and w h eeled t o grab an e m p ty ben ean m oselle b o ttle o f d u b io u s vintage. I th ou ght shit! b u t drunk the claret in earnest.

B loggs swung back to charge, but

the kids had scattered w h en th ey saw th ose false fron t teeth bared b a ck t o the ears. Bloggs was p h y sically restrained b y the friends, w h o variously told him to c o o l it and t o o k the b o ttle fro m his surprised hands. O ver o n the oth er side, a debate was ensuing betw een the y o u th and his colleagues, and the businessm an and the lady w ith s tiff b a ck ed su p p ort fro m the tw o painters. B loggs eventually w ent ov er and s h o o k hands w ith the y o u th w ith ou t apologising. W hat a f o o l I th ou g h t; the last o f the untram m eleds has c o o le d it. A h bloggs, w h erefore art th y n o b le scon e. Bloggs h im self ritualistically sn iffed ou t the nearest jo in t. T h e y o u th was subsequ ently ch u ck ed o u t b y the businessm an.

B loggs to p p e d h im self up w ith m ore acm e m u sic and p ro ce e d e d to get it on . B y this tim e I knew the situation to be h ap pily irredeem able; bloggs had sn iffed b lo o d . T he kids had sn iffed it t o o . What a night! what a dram a! this m ust g o d o w n in the anals o f acm e rubbish. C o u ld I c o p e ?

I cam e o u t fro m behind the right hand speaker sw eating, seeking som e sock . Bloggs arrived w ith it, grinning.

I th ou g h t, those false fron t teeth sure lo o k vulnerable, and said y ou d isap p oin ted m e bloggs. In true b o b o faulkner style, he lo o k e d at me until m y navel con tra cted , and said the night is y et but a turtle. I sock ed d o w n a gullet fu ll and n o d d e d sagely. Bloggses foraging eye sought o u t the b esp ecta cled lady. She cam e

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over and treated him to the dance o f the gloatin g veil; bloggs lapped it up. I th ou g h t b loggs y o u bastard, y o u ’re h o o k e d o n sex and violen ce!

I craved fo r an oth er burn o f that claret to take m y m ind o f f that little arse o f his. I had another qu iet sip o f w ine and w ent over to w here the lead singer Peter was sitting w ith the lady. T h e y were b o th staring at the flo o r as if wait­ ing fo r a to n o f brick s to arrive.

I o b lig e d . It’ s high tim e y o u went on m an, things have q u ieten ed dow n .

T h e lady glared at me and said som eth in g in appropriate. Peter g ot u p , h itch ed his happy b e lly o n to the stage and rolled a grinning jules ou t fro m w here he had flaked under the d ru m m er’ s feet in to a less c o m fo r t­ ing p o sitio n against an am p. I lo o k e d arou nd fo r bloggs. The businessm an had hold o f his wrist and lo o k e d like he w anted to ch u ck ov er him . Bloggs p o lite ly told him to get his fu ck in g hands o f f ; and that i f he, the businessm an, w anted to ch u ck shit at him , well, he’d better ask p olite ly first. T h e y ritualistically glared at each other fo r ten secon d s. Like true rom an tics, th ey d e cid e d to have it ou t in the kitch en . T h e d o o r s w ere closed .

I c o u ld o n ly vaguely hear. T he ch u ck er told bloggs that this was his sh ow m an, and if he, bloggs, caused any m ore tro u b le , then his head w o u ld be w here it was at.

B loggs said som eth in g uninteresting.

T h e ch u ck er to ld him that the lady had seen him th row the first punch.

She had told him so. Bloggs cam e bursting ou t o f the r o o m . I preten ­ d ed to b e drinking. H e said som e­ thing inadequate a b o u t thrusting m y hearing aid d o w n m y flagon sized ears and w en t b a ck in to the kitchen.

T h e d o o r closed firm ly b eh in d him.

I t o o k an oth er swig. A v o ice from beh in d said great d an ce man. A hand was u p o n m y shoulder. I turned m y head as casually as poss­ ible under the circum stances. It was fo u r eyes, the fastest pusher in w est balm ain. M y cru tch itched .

W hat u n told drama! W ou ld victor the m anure pusher from east bal­ m ain turn u p ? Was this institute big en ou g h fo r the tw o o f them ?

M y m in d b ogg led . I pu t th e flagon to lips t o give m y se lf r o o m to think

o f an ap p rop riate n on -in v olv ed reply.

B efore y o u c o u ld say h ydrant b o o s ­ ter valve bloggs a ppeared, snarling; what d o these bastards d o fo r pleasure he said to n o on e in partic­ ular. Gissa swig. High m an said the fastest pusher in the w est slo w ly , great dan ce he observed to bloggs.

I w a tch ed b loggs ritualistically w ipe his chin and eye the c ro w d at the same tim e. I needa jo in t he said y o u w o u ld n ’ t have o n e w o u ld y o u .

I th ou g h t that this was being a bit t o o direct. I said to him h o w did y o u m ake o u t. He lo o k e d at me and sm iled. We parted the best o f enem ies he said. T h e ch u ck e r cam e ou t o f the k itch en and w en t d o w n to the stage, lo o k in g like hard rain was gon na fall. I s p o tte d the lady standing b eside the left hand speaker. B efore I c o u ld take the fla gon fro m m y lips, b log g s was at her side. I said to fo u r eyes see y o u b roth er, gave him th e peace sign and sauntered d o w n to the stage.

B loggs was sh ou tin g a b ov e the m u sic in to the la d y ’ s right ear.

T h e y lo o k e d like tw o b ro w n snakes having tea and b u ttered scon es togeth er. A n y th in g co u ld happen.

It did. T h e fastest pusher in the west separated them w ith a jo in t.

S o m e h o w , th ey laughed. S o did fo u r eyes, at he k n ew n o t w hat. It’ s g o o d shit man he said, h o m e g row n .

B loggs observed that it tasted like rozelle ratshit. T he lady o ffe r e d him the jo in t . T h a t’ s w h y i t ’s g o o d bloggs she said. He su ck ed again. Y o u o w e m e a dan ce m adam . T h e y m ov ed to the acm e m u sic, w ith h old in g every­ thing. T h e jo in t appeared b e fo re m y eyes o n the fingertips o f the fastest pusher in the west. N o m an I said I’m n o t a shit head-straight dr. m ack en zies fo r m e. H e b lin k ed . 1 d o n ’t think he p erceived the s o c io ­ logica l im p a ct o f m y discrim in ation .

I lo o k e d a rou nd ; things seem ed to b e sw inging. Peter was scratching his balls and singing; shoulders was b o o g ie in g w ith so m e lady and e n jo y in g it; the jo k e r and the th ie f w ere gettin g the a cm e o u t o f their system s; the la d y and b loggs were dancing a kind o f m utual Vietnamese xm as ceasefire d a n ce ; the kids were h overin g near the k itch e n , unable to take their ey es o f f b log g s; the ch u c k ­ er was sipping w ine fr o m the card­

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b oa rd cu p , lo o k in g distu rbed . I said to fo u r eyes things seem to be sw inging. He lo o k e d arou n d tw ice b e fo r e answering. Y e h m an. He sidled o f f in to th e cr o w d , look in g as in significan t as bill m organ driving a y e llo w ca b . I had an oth er swig o f s o ck and w on d ered if I’ d get h o m e in tim e fo r garner te d ’ s m idnight ep ilog u e o n the radio.

T he m u sic fa d ed . O n e painter and his w ife cam e up to b loggs and the lady. T h e y all said in adequ ate things.

O b v io u sly th ey w ere close friends.

I felt like taking an ov erd ose o f p iriton spandets. I nearly su ccu m bed w hen a jo in t appeared fr o m the left, but m y u natheletic b a ck g rou n d p re­ clu d ed m e. I t o o k it over to the cron ies and d iscreetly h anded it to the p a in ter’ s w ife . T his on e has gon orrea h o n it I said. T h e y all laughed g o o d n atu redly. I b ro k e ou t in a rash o n m y left kn ee. T h a t’ s becau se o f all the shit p ou rin g ou t o f y o u said bloggs. T his had the e ffe c t o n m e that m ou th to m ou th resu scitation has o n a dead m u llet; I felt m y faith restored. Bloggs had saved the day again. I o ffe r e d him a swig o f so ck . He said I ’m going up the coa st fo r a fe w days. Y o u ’re goin g to leave m e w ith this lady I said. She lo o k e d at m e. D o n ’t w orry , y o u w o n ’ t ca tch the p o x . M y spirits soared. Y o u can alw ays rely o n y ou r friends I said.

B loggs lo o k e d at m e and laughed, and the fo u r o f them w ent o f f d o w n the passagew ay. I w ent to fo llo w , but a Vi d o z e n or so y ou n g kids were trailing th em . M y gut w arm ed. B e fo re y o u c o u ld say m ake m ine c a d b u r y ’s, bloggs had smashed an e m p ty beer b o ttle against the wall and m ade a V2 hearted thrust at o n e o f the kids th roa t. I th ou ght y o u ’re mad bloggs: th ey d o n ’ t really want to hit y o u ! T h en I saw bloggses fa ce . T h e bastard w anted them to hit him ! A ll the w hile th ey were beltin g h im , b loggs had this V2 sm ile o n his fa ce — even w hen his false fr o n t teeth fle w o u t in to the gutter and was sw ept aw ay w ith the torren ts. A n d he d id n ’ t even lo o k like he w an ted to d e fe n d him self!

I yelled fight y o u cu nt! H e seem ed to hear thru the barrage p ou n d in g his head, but shut his eyes and grinned. Y o u greasy p rick , fight!

I w anted to g o o v e r and sm ash the

flagon in that grin. I had an extra large swig. T h en it sto p p e d , the rain, the fight, the yellin g, n o cop s, just stop p ed , fo r three secon d s, stunned silence. T h en all the talking started. I clu tch ed the flagon .

Bloggs was bleeding fro m the m ou th his hair was dripping w et, cloth es torn. But he lo o k e d as arrogant as ever. S om e old bikie p u lled him inside the hall while tilings were being settled ou tside. A s he went past, his o d o u r nearly d rove m e mad.

I said noth in g. I d id n ’t even lo o k at him , the cunt. O u tside, things ton ed d ow n . Bloggs re-appeared o n the steps. He fix e d his gaze o n every thing in particular and n oth in g in general. T he drunken sixteen year o ld w h o had th row n bloggs ov er the bon n et o f a h old en and yelled at him to quit to bring him to his senses, brought up on e o f the kids w h o had been belting him . C ’ m on y o u pair o f bastards, shake. Bloggs ju st gazed at him. A ll I w ant is m y fu ck in g teeth. T he drunk kid said lo o k m ate, we can ’ t fin d th em , th ey musta gon e d ow n the drain. T h e y ’re g on e, so forget a b o u t’em and shake.

Bloggs seem ed to warm to this.

He grinned and said righ to digger, and sh ook with the oth er kid. He w ent back in to the acm e m u sic, w here the jo k e r and the th ie f w ere letting it all hang ou t and b low in g it to the ch u ck er in true u top ia n fash ion . I flung the V2 em p ty flagon o f sock o n to the pavem ent. It smashed and dribbled slow ly in to the gutter.

N on e o f the kids t o o k any n otice.

I glared at their backs. T he painter w h o had waded in to help bloggs was g on e, w ith his w ife. T h e lady had gon e back inside to Peter. E verything was w rong. Was bloggs playing som e nasty kind o f jo k e o n m e? I went back inside and fo u n d a stale b o ttle o f resch’ s d.a. It tasted sickeningly beautiful, like the urine o f a dead bu tterfly left to ferm ent in 4 2 degrees celsius, w ith ou t an um brella. I resolved to speak severely to bloggs, som etim e.

5 I'm 24. I'm a journalist and a reporter and I work for a very conventional magazine as an underpaid employee because sometimes I get to do my own thing and write about the people and the situations that keep me awake at night when my conscience can't sleep. I never write happy stories and I never report happy events. I only write well about things that are true and things that make me cry, and that hurt. But as I'm fairly happy this only means I ’m not a prolific writer.

I'm Australian and I come from a large family and I've been a reporter of just about everything and worked in Perth and Sydney and Canberra. I live in Sydney.

Y o u ’re lo ck e d inside y ou r gold plated car n o w , star. D o y o u have y o u r o w n k ey even to that?

I'm very young because I still think I can reform the world and make everyone equal and happy and uncorrupt. I want to write another Power W ithout Glory and do lots of other things that nobody else wants me to do. If they did I wouldn't be writing this commercial, would I? Anyway this story is true. There'd be no point in writing it if it weren't.

Obituary

Geraldine Willesee

I can feel angry at y o u ; a bitter taste is left in m y b o d y from y o u . Y o u w h o gave m e all the strength o f y ou r strong b lo o d o n e day high on a h otel r o o f o v e rlo o k in g a strange city.

Y o u w ere a man then. T ake m y strong b lo o d , feel it flo w in g in to y o u , right th rou gh y o u , through y o u r w h ole b o d y ; m y b lo o d never cries, y o u said. A n d I to o k y o u r strength and I d id n ’ t cry then. I d id n ’ t thank y o u but fo r weeks and m on th s afterw ards, even after I despised th e ‘ strength’ that gave y o u b lo o d that never cried, I clung t o th ose w ord s and a ccep ted the vibes.

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But I despised y o u r b lo o d . Strong b lo o d w ith n o tears is gutless b lo o d I th ou g h t and felt angry and bitter and sad fo r y o u . . . and m e.

U nder a mask I th ou ght I saw y o u .

I did see y o u because y o u had holes cu t in the m ask fo r y o u r eyes, and I lo o k e d at th em . I lo o k e d in to them and th rou gh them and deep inside I saw y o u ; beau tiful person. H idden.

I k n o w I fo u n d y o u . It wasn’t fo r very lon g but y o u were there, y o u w eren ’ t ju st a m asked b lo o d d o n o r and n o w y o u ’ve covered up y o u r eyes and I d o n ’ t understand h ow y o u ’re goin g to see. Y o u d o n ’ t want t o n o w and was all I gave y o u o f m y se lf the strength fo r y o u to go b lin d ?

M aybe y o u should have given me m ore o f y ou r b lo o d , a llow ed m e to give y o u som e o f m in e; w e should have g o t it w hile w e c o u ld . Then w e w o u ld have survived, y o u and I. Y o u think y o u ’ve survived because y o u k ep t th e mask o n in the lon g run. Y o u k ep t it o n y o u r lips and sp ok e o n ly in m asked w ords. But y o u d id n ’t k n o w that that was the language o f life and love. I under­ sto o d the w ord s. A n d even a fter­ wards y o u said I k n ew , that I had u n d e rsto o d , that y o u had let it all hang ou t — in y o u r o w n lim ited w ay. But that was when m y plain

O h I should feel sad fo r y o u , and forgivin g, q u o te o ld love songs to y o u perhaps ....“ if y o u ever change y o u r m ind, co m e ba ck to m e .........

I ’ll understand” M y b lo o d is w eak en ough to feel that w ay bu t y o u gave m e som e o f y o u r strong b lo o d so I d o n ’t, ca n ’ t say it. Y o u d id n ’t give m e en ou gh to take aw ay the pain and hurt and bitter angry tears and loss. Y o u d id n ’ t give m e en ough to take aw ay the pain and hurt and bitter angry tears and loss. Y o u d id n ’ t give m e en ou gh to stop m e hurting inside fo r what m ight happen to y o u in y ou r c o ld glittering w orld w ith ou t love. T h e y have m ade y o u a freak.

I shall devise an h onest bill-board sign ou tsid e the opera house w hen y o u o p e n there. T h e C ou n try 's First E ntirely G old-P lated Elastic Man In Person P erform ing Here In M arrionette S h ow T on ig h t. W ou ld a n y on e really believe it though. W ou ld they k n ow ? T h e grou p ie girls get fu ck e d b y y o u (b u t th ey d o n ’ t realise y o u can ’ t even rem em ber the c o lo u r o f their eyes) the children play fo o t ie w ith y o u , the missus w atches teev w ith y o u - a plastic g old coa ted etc. co u ld n ’ t d o all that th ey will say.

Plastic r o b o t man what have th ey d on e to y o u . Y o u saw danger and trou b le and love in m y ey es and I saw danger and trou ble and avarice, greed and a gam e in theirs.

h on esty was n o t ju st frightening — it was a little w o n d e rfu l, bea u tifu l and high and m ade y o u sneak o u t from inside fo r a w h ile. But y o u ’re b a ck safe inside n o w to rto ise . Y o u th row y o u r eyes at m e d e fia n ty saying th ere’s n oth in g there. P rou d ly!

I feel sick.

I f o n ly I had caught y o u b e fo r e th ey did — was it them or did th ey ju st seal y o u r fa te ? B e fo re th e y pu t jam o n y o u r bread and o ffe r e d y o u spon ge cake and cream and bright c o lo u r e d expen sive cars and gave th em to y o u and o ffe r e d the sun and th e stars and g o ld plated cars and sh o w e d y o u the w ay. A n d th ey said th ey were y o u r friends. I f o n ly I had caught y o u b e fo r e th em . But I d id n ’t; th ey led y o u d o w n to the heights and it lo o k s like th e y ’ve w o n . Y o u r inner strength th e y ’ve g o t that t o o haven’t th ey?

Y o u gave them the k ey to the y o u b ehind the mask and th ey threw it in to th e H arbou r w ith ou t even b o th ­ ering to o p e n and peep inside because th ey d id n ’t care. But w h en y o u gave m e y o u r b lo o d that d ay in that strange c ity y o u gave m e a secret form u la w ith y o u r eyes and that let m e inside.... to lo o k . E ven y o u a d m itted n o ­ b o d y else had ever had it. N o b o d y else will ever get that form u la either because o n e o f th em saw y o u give it to m e and set o u t o n the cam paign trail to sh o w y o u it was the w ron g form u la . M y form u la d id n ’t add up to guaranteed g o ld -p la ted cars and stars.

A n d y o u hesitated . . . and changed the form u la . N o , y o u d id n ’t even change it. Y o u rejected it c o m p le te ly and d e cid e d n o t to have a n oth er o n e .

I f th ere’ s n o k e y (th e y th rew it aw a y) and th ere’ s n o form u la (th e y con n ed y o u in to th row in g it a w a y ) th en n o o n e can get in. S im p le. S im ple.

S im ple!

T h ey d id n ’ t b o th er to lo o k in y o u r eyes o f cou rse. O n ly y o u and 1 k n ow what was in y ou r eyes. I f it was still there, even th ou g h y o u ’ d sent m e away because o f the lure th ey placed fo r y o u . . . . Y o u d id n ’ t k n ow abou t love and I said it was the biggest high y o u ’d ever get and y o u asked m e if I kn ew a b o u t the law o f gravity. I f y o u ’re gon na put m e up there, if lov e is at the peak then it’s got to co m e d o w n , y o u said; and I ’ m n ot planning on co m in g d ow n — I’ m n o t gon n a give y o u the ch ance to hurt m e, y o u said. But th ey already had y o u up. O nly w ay, d o w n ; and n o help o n the way.

I f y o u ’d taken m y lure — the love on e — y o u co u ld have c o m e up again i f I’ d let y o u fall. T hat is the living exp erien ce fo r feelin g hum ans.

But y o u to o k their g old en lure m y plastic r o b o t man and w hen the law o f gravity is th rou gh w ith y o u I d o n ’t k n ow i f I can p ick u p m elted p lastic and spare tin r o b o t parts.

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The Saga of Rennie OnburpThe Hindsight Saga. b y R anald A llan.

R enn ie U n bu rp is an Australian m y th take it or leave it, like it or love i t ; ..... listed or S H O V E IT !!

R enn ie U n bu rp drinks m eth yla ted spirits w hile w atching television and this is part o f his story . TH IS is the Partly Saga o f Rennie Unburp and small fart in a p ick le b o ttle fo r man b u t a great leap f o r w a r d ..................... “ I ’ ll repeat that . . . th at’s G R E A T L E A P F O R D o n the M agic M iles o f M otives, Parasite R o a d — Chullora and Lakem ba and while y ou r ou t that w ay d rop in at the Miranda Fair and have a lo o k at B ankstow n Square and R ose la n d ’ s g o t branches every b lo o d y w h e r e !!”

R en n ie saw all sorts o f things on television w hen he was in to his spirits and it is crucial that y o u bear in m ind — a n ice a m biguity there, w hich c o u ld be utilized b y the Sayer o f R en n ie’s Partly Saga. “ Y o u bare in m ind reader o r y o u bare in m ind a u d ien ce - delete ‘w h ichever is n ot a p p lica b le’ even th ou gh it should never have appeared an yw a y.

T he p rob lem was o n e o f c o n tr o l — o f w h ich R enn ie possessed very little, but it d id n ’t end there, b y any means. Perhaps even m ore p oten tia lly dangerous than R e n n ie ’s lack o f c o n tr o l was the inevitable ch aos w h ich w o u ld result if a n yon e tried to pin d o w n o r w orse, write d o w n , R e n n ie ’s m y th — d o w n right d ifficu lt, since there w ere so m any fo rce s at w ork — w o r k fo rc e s , A ir F orces, A rm ed F o rce s generally, Generals o f A rm ed F o rce s, flyin g fo rce s , L a w -N -forces, in short fo rce s b e y o n d ou r c o n tr o l. A lrea d y w e can w itness h ow these fo r c e s have pre­ ven ted us fro m learning very m u ch a b ou t R en n ie, o th e r than the single fa ct that he drank m eth yla ted spirits, while w atching T .V .

We have stayed in o n e sp o t t o o long.

O n e-sp ot; tw o-lo n g , th ree-R en nie, fo u r-h e ’ s a jo lly nice fe llo w and iF ’IV E m y w ay, we will learn so m e ­ thing m ore a b o u t him . But o f cou rse m yth s like m eths aren’t held d o w n very easily.

T he p ro b le m o f co n tr o l has already been in tro d u ce d , so the Partly Saga o f R en n ie U nburp co u ld be said to con ta in an in tro d u ctio n — a c o n ­ trolled on e at that. S in ce it is en­ visaged in the rou gh draft that R e n n ie ’ s Saga will end w ith endings o f ou r o w n ch o o sin g — con clu d in g w ith a w ell e x e cu te d p u n ch line (as i f this business o f short story writing

was a jo k e ) — then the Saga n o w lo o k s like having b o t h a beginning and an en d . A head and a tail — w h ich o f cou rse leaves us w ith the p ro b le m o f the b o d y — in this case Bernard B erg on zi’ s. N o w , BB is a P rofessor o f English at W arwick U niversity (just like o u r o w n m o th e r­ less fo a l — little G .G .) b u t getting b a ck to the b o d y o f his w o rk — this con sists o f an original p elican with the u n lik ely nam e o f The Situation o f the Novel. Situated som ew h ere a rou n d the rectu m o f this particular Penguin is a m isplaced a p p en d ix o n the short story . This in fla m ed little article naturally has n o p lace in any b o d y o f literature and so ou r literary surgeon the E m in en t P rofessor B.B. p ro ce e d s to re m o v e it — cu t it o u t B .B !!

O ne flesh y fragm ent was fo u n d in a d irty little corn er under the operating table — a ca n cerou s h u n k — thus . . . “ F o r all its p o p u la rity and apparent necessity to m agazine e d itors, the short sto ry , in its present co n d itio n , seems to be u nh ealth ily lim ited, b o th in the range o f literary e x p e r­ ien ce it o ffe r s and its ca p a city to d eep en o u r understanding o f the w o rld , o r o f o n e a n o th e r.”

T he clim a x o f R enn ies Saga - what else but to pause fo r a w o r d from ou r sp on sor. “ Hi! I’m W illiam Board — y o u can call m e Bill and I’m p ro u d to represent Great Leap F o rd M otives and I ’ d like y o u t o m eet a special guest and a close friend . — A lf darn it, y o u big O T !

C o m e o n ov er here, and hear a b o u t a real used up firm , after all we d o want a re-sp on sor, and speaking o f sponsors and back ers . . . (a w a y ).

the entrails — pinning th e tail o n the proverb ia l asse’ s ass — eh e y . . . ju st a m inu te . . . this is a fa m ily sh ow n ot the First F o x t r o t in F ran k fu rt (g o t to k eep it c o n te m p o ra ry , as w ell as clean y o u k n o w ). N o w I h op e all the fa m ily ’ s p o is e d , p e n cil and paper at the ready as w e prepare to partici­ pate in “ sp ot the in flu e n ce ” .

T he Partly Saga o f R en n ie U nburp is in flu e n ce d b y : (a )m erica (b ) R en n ie w henever y o u are. (c ) if th e artist cares w h ich alterna­ tive y o u ch o o se . (d ) it (e ) P rofessor B.B. i(f) the co m b in e d in flu en ces o f T .V . c o u ld be p lo tte d w o u ld th ey read som eth in g like this? T h e 1948 G o o n w ith the W ind in the W illow s Lassie w h o pissed o f f w ith R in n ie’ s T in, got the Jack A u n ty A .B .C . — A lf a bet w e ’ ve regressed to the C L F again. (g)sus Christ som e ord e r, please!

A nsw ers o f “ all o f the a b o v e ” or “ n on e o f th ese” will be con sid ered if the m u ltip le o b je ctiv e ch oosers are n o t friend s, en em ies, o r in any w ay a ssociated w ith or h o ld any o p in io n s o n the situation o f the novel. M ailer all replies care o f this w e e k ’ s m y ste ry q u estion — W hy aren’ t we in V ietn a m ?

W ell fo lk s this is H am m a A R o id o n b e h a lf o f Bill B oard and all o f us here at G reat Leap F orw ard M otives signing o f f - but first I want to send o u t a special ch eerio call to P rofessor Bernard B ergon zi — ou r used dealer, in the English branch and I ’m sure Bernie w o n ’ t m ind us ending w ith his co m m e n ts on y o u r television ’ s T est Pattern. He says — “ T he basic pattern is p red ictable.

T w o o r three specim ens o f hum an­ ity , neither very elevated nor repellently w retch ed at the ou tset, are sh ow n to the reader and charac­ terised w ith a fe w d eft tou ch es; their strengths an d , far m ore im p ort­ ant their weaknesses are show n w ith e x a ctly the right blen d o f com p assion ­ ate understanding and clear-eyed d eta ch m en t. T h e narrative m oves steadily and e c o n o m ic a lly to a crisp m o m e n t o f d e fe a t; and then diminuendo, to a bleep in g finish w ith, again, ju st the right m ixture o f p a th os and ir o n y .”

Thank y o u Bernie that was a fitting end to ou r sh ow and as we leave R en n ie drinking his third b o ttle o f m ethylated spirits, still w atching M y w o r d , A l f a bet-a BB, the C LF T .V . we m ust pause fo r a m om en t and the C M F — all fo llo w to the letter, to ask ourselves, w ith ju st the right the o ld m id d le o f the road cou rse o u t m ixtu re o f p a th os and iro n y , here to G reat Leap F o r d M otives w heth er it co u ld b e said o f R ennie cause, m ost e v e ry o n e d o e s. A lf I’ d U nburp that there was M eth o in like y o u to hear n o w fr o m o u r N um ber his M adness? on e salesman — a real pain in the arse — but H a m m a -A -R o id ’ s g o t a big pile o f used endings fo r this Saga — so le t’s hear a b o u t it - h ere’ s the m ike-H am m a take it a w a y !” “ T h a n k y o u B .B . and h ello o u t there (h u llo to y o u t o o , o u r W arw ick B B ) w ell w e ’re ju st a b o u t to finish up, but first let m e tell y o u a b o u t this w e e k ’ s c o m p e titio n . W ell to cu t a short story lon g - w e ’re asking y o u n o t as w e did last w eek t o p ick a title, o r y o u r n ose, b u t to p ick the in flu en ce. P icking the in flu e n ce entails p ick in g an end to o u r tale fro m

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Ranald Allan was born in 1952 in the NSW country, and is currently completing an Arts degree at Sydney University.

His stories have appeared in Tabloid Story 3 and in Southerly.

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Bluey Metal.

by S. Steynes B luey to o k a deep breath as he entered the main street; n oth in g new under the sun-lam p as w h ite pinks blick ed across the street in a line o f heat-glazed asterisks . . . he w ent straight rou n d to S heila’ s. She had stayed w ith him tw en ty years but had grow n old er faster she said taking up m id -h app y tow n cro w d e d c o m fo r t as respectable b roth el m adam — he lay awake all night missing in advance the warm warble o f his ch ick en s — that night the vague rou n d figure o f S. and h im self g ot blick ered o n the bitter herb the you n g c ity w h ore had given S. in exch ange fo r clean sheets every day. T he broth el had b o o m e d in to violent colou rs o n the wall and a sw eet sickly sm ok e h e had th ou ght he was in hell until S. had given him the fu n n y p ip e carved erotic a naked w om an and then inhaling the sm ok e up betw een the little hard b o n e breasts — then it seem ed like a dawn and the fear was gon e.

His d o g w h o S. said had inhaled the fu m es fu ck e d a w hite flu ffy cat belon g to the asian w h ore and th ey had all laughed — th ey had con trib u ted — he was h ap py — he stayed in b ed all day it seem ed c o ld in the tow n .

Sheila fo u n d him a coa t n ew and cleaned the spittle o f f the fron t o f it. T hen she had k ick ed him ou t o f her ro o m fo r the night sh ift — Sheila said the classy b lok es liked to take the girls there w ith its red plush...B , thought that it lo o k e d like an o ld picturesh ow and she laughed when he said so because she had g ot the stu ff w hen th ey pulled d o w n the R o x y alternately the B o x y and the P o x y depending on the qu ality o f life in the b ack stalls. H e hung rou n d across the road fro m the b roth el fo r a w hile — its structure never failed to interest him — tw o b lo c k s o f cu bicles cast o u t o f corru g ated iron to p p e d b y barbed wire to keep ou t the blacks he sniggered ba ck to the tim e he had w atched B lack B luey smuggle in the girl discovered just short o f short tim e and she reb ou n d ed like a spring in to a w ild cat pinging after him in to the street w ith ju st a blou se that sh ow ed her brush — th ey hit the ja ck -p o t and business b o o m e d the broth el lo o k e d sm erm y during the day the night lights glancing ou t and hitting the fo o tp a th at angles th ey used to all be rosy red o f F ren ch houses n o w th ey screeched ou t in to the night in an hysterical wash o f vilets and oranges and electric greens and blues — they were fitting he th ou ght — m ad m ole

7 m iner - he th ou gh t o f whistling his d og and heading b a ck to it all aw ay but w en t instead to T ib b y ’s Tea R o o m s to dissolve his th ou ghts in a sw eet to w n teatreat; the little nip o f gin slipped him b ack to the first tim e he had b rou gh t Sheila here, she had b een a y o u n g girl alm ost n ew to the gam e and she fo u n d life in the b roth el o f a fron tier tow n deligh tfu lly fast and lo o se — her fa ce had draw n him at first, it was p retty dreadfu l and lo o k e d w orse w ith paint o n but she never seem ed to n o tice that she was anything less than c o m e ly and even m ou rn ed the passing o f her features. T here she had b een and he, sorry to see her languishing o n the cane chair o u t­ side her cu b icle had fo r o n e night been her o n ly cu stom er n ext night he, b ro k e , had w atched her beseiged — m iners w ith m o n e y in their p o ck e ts and sperm to bank — still th ey w ere g o o d friends and tea taken at T ib b y ’s togeth er on the aggressively h ot days when n o b o d y had th e energy to — waiting tog eth er fo r the co ld to prick business up — and he w o u ld slip ba ck to the desert and th e tw enty acres o f scrub that after all was him So it had g o n e fo r som e years until on e d ay she had sh uddered at him over tea and w anted to co m e and live w ith him ou t there — “ ou t th ere” — he had lo o k e d at her d o u b tfu lly w hile his heart raced and w an ted that — and he never kn ew w hat had disgusted her in the d u sty p rom iscu o u s to w n — and so she had c o m e to what was after all o n ly an elaborate wurly and had d on e things as he w ou ld have.

T he desert drew them and th ey wan­ dered a b ou t and across and left a bit o f y o u th at every cam p-fire and am azingly grew . She discovered blacks w h o w ere n o t bundles o f o ld greasy clo th e s and was haughty, afraid and then im pressed and fin ­ ally to his jo y , silent. A dm iring the spitting b itch desert and those that c o p e d w ith her.

S o o n She cou ld never have been a creature w h o lo o k e d greedily in to a small gilded m irror, b u t another w h o sat lon g and w a tch ed emus run fo r stretches digging so m u ch the b o u n c e o f th ose deep feathers and never chased them again to get feathers fo r a hat — he d id it fo r her S u dd en ly ou t o f th e blue and g o ld and q u een ly crim sons o f an oth er dawning h o t sweet tea she had said I’m g oin g back to T o w n Bluey and stung in to a past tart person he had ‘spat, em p tied his tea, gathered his swag, w alked fo u r miles and then I kn ew y o u w ou ld never stick it and her laughter rang in m erilloes rou n d th e salt-brush it had been tw en ty -tw o years.

A n d I was cu t o u t o f the centre o f a glass m ou n ta in delivered to the earth in a wave o f b lo o d as the jagged edges cut in to m y virgin flesh. T he passers-by hurried o n past th e v o ice and B lu ey left his b o o t h to jo in the sou rce — it was

Bella the w h isk ey p ia n o princess She bared her arms t o th e sh oppers displaying lim bs u gly w ith th e scars o f m an y cuts. “ T h e glass to re in to m y naked b o d y and the birth o f b lo o d was the p u rifica tio n that we all m ust en dure — the spirit o f w isd om en tered m y b o d y th rou gh the o p e n w o u n d s — B lu ey greeted her and o ffe r e d to b u y her a drink. She d rew her hanging fa ce in and ey ed him sus­ p iciou sly . He h u m m ed a fe w bars and she fo llo w e d him in to o n e — Bella had b een in the to w n fo r t y years and she never recog n ised an y o n e — every m eetin g was the first rep layed like a pia n ola role.

She had b een the o n ly m usical lady in the to w n early to w n — but rad io cam e and stole her a u dien ce and h ardly a n y b o d y in the n ew to w n kn ew her as an yth in g but she w h o harangued the sh oppers.

Crazy lady — displaying the scars o f her m any b o ttle fights — the m edallion s o f a crystal birth , w h ich it su d d en ly o cc u r re d t o B — it was. T his bright orange creature originally the gentle lady w h o played the p ia n o at th e p o lite gatherings o f the early co m m u n ity had been b o rn o f the death and loss and a baptism o f shattered glass — a d o v e dive in to cam p-fires and shanties — rolled over in cou ntless gutters to receive the a ttention s o f co n stru ctio n w orkers m iners blacks and while she was still y o u n g the lo ca l con sta b u la ry and the o ld house graced b y roses had p eeled and shrunk beh in d w eeds — so a fallen w o m a n had shim m ered and stu m bled across the to w n ’ s stage learning to d efen d h erself and a lon g lost h o n o u r w ith a jagged fe r o c ity and b o ttle ends — and so had passed a th irty year celib a te — u n con sciou sn ess.

d o o r . She did n o t re p ly — dam n ed u p p ity b la ck b itc h he g ru m b led in to th e red dirt o f th e street. Bella had disappeared. He was a lon e and on th e street again. H e d e cid e d t o stay w here he was w arm ed b y the soft red earth — th e a tten tion s o f fo u r or five slob b erin g d o g s fo r c e d h im to his feet.

Standing he lo o k e d u p th e main street and the past and present grinned m a liciou sly at h im . He shunted up th e street; lo o k in g in to plate glass w in d o w s at bright p y ra ­ m ids o f things, a b sorb ed until he n o tic e d h im . A sh abby o ld geezer in a d irty o ld co a t...b ea rin g d o w n o n h im ...y a p p in g at his coat-tails... turning su d d en ly th e spectre dis­ a p p eared ...an d it was him — the q u ick and the dead ju m p e d up and left. H e c o n tin u e d th rou gh the h u m p ty ju m b le o f presents ev ery ­ thing lo o k in g really “ S P E C I A L !!!!” he liked the w ay th e soap lo o k e d like a g ift great b lo c k s o f c o lo u r he was lost in a m aze o f gifts.

W hen his ears hurt he tries to get o u t but a hatchet fa ce at the silver gates m akes him turn ou t his p o c k e ts she w o u ld n o t believe he had o n ly c o m e to lo o k . She relu ctan tly let him th rou gh the turn stile and he h a p p ily fingered the soap fo r present that had slipped in to his trousers — and ate the glaced fruits that had rested c o m fo r ta b ly in his arm -pit.

T h e y drank togeth er in the w inehouse reserved fo r b la ck s — since th ey had d o n e up all the oth er pubs with m o re plush and lam in ex guilt m irrors t o o greasy — B lu ey was tim id at entering there — even the m iners seem ed to dress in dandies’ pants and flora l shirts.

B. slipped in to a d o o r w a y and w aited fo r th e o ld geezer w h o was fo llo w in g him but g o t sick o f it and the glaced fru it and w andered in to th e silver-blue arcade and w a tch ed the silent m ov ie o f the T V set inside the blu e tu be in distin ct figures w h ip p ed across th e intense a ctio n the small space seem ed cram m ed and B. stretched his arms arched his b a ck . His b o d y felt p a ck ed w ith t o o m a n y organs a b ou t to burst th rou gh a p o u n d in g b lo o d sp ot in his head. H e felt afraid and w o n d e re d i f he was t o fall in to u n con sciou sn ess. B etter t o g o back t o S heila’ s b u t there w ere the b lok es still hanging a b o u t ou tsid e — still feelin g unusual he sank t o th e gutter o n the o p p o s ite side — w atchin g in hate the resident p et C arlo m ake his o ily w ay in to on e o f the cu bicles.

W ell C arlo did n o t enter there until it was alm ost tim e fo r closin g — so he w aited and the filth y o ld b roth el sn ickered at him — at his age like a corru gated iron chastity belt. T he idea m ade him sm ile. H e closed his eyes o n t o his ch ick en shed haven warm s o ft caring.

Bella and he sat and drank the ch eap red. W hen she had first started to drink she had b een a w h iskey straight lady her last to u c h o f grandeur left her w hen she had b een fo r c e d to drink o f the running p ity w ells — n o m o re w hiskey — n o b o d y was that sorry.

Squinting an o ld y e llo w e y e at him she said y o u are gettin g o ld and that was the o n ly tim e she ever ad m itted co n tin u ity o f a cq u a in ta n ce — surprise, surprise. A fte r the fifth glass she m ade her w ay t o the p ian o and played a fe w tunes t o a screech ­ ing a cco m p a n im e n t and as the tears o f sentim ent rose to B ’s eyes th ey w ere k ick ed o u t b y that big b la ck b itch , W illa, w h o did the b ro th e l’ s laundry. H e o ffe r e d a p la ca to ry greeting as she dragged him t o the

He th ou g h t o f whistling his d o g and getting b a ck there aw ay — but th ou g h the red did n o t rep ly it seem ­ ed essential to get h o m e — and yet he sat o n and w o n d e red w h y Sheila did n o t want to die in the desert — his fo o t was grow in g th ick w ith pins and needles — best he stand up and w en t aw ay till business en d ed on e last w alk b e fo r e sinking in to that s o ft b ed su rrou nded b y red velvet shining w ith age — sure sure — he sm iled a m ost b e a tific sm ile to h im self — sure sure — avoid in g the m ain street and im ita tion o ld m en in sp it-cak ed coa ts Bluey headed to the skirts o f to w n swinging in to a c o m fo r ta b le rh y th m and flo w in g th e b lo o d th in n ed his f o o t o u t — c o n tin u e d a lop -sid ed dog-less walk .

B lu ey realised, c o n te m p la te d her sp asm od ic appearances in his life — she was an o ld friend.

B. shivered as the fa ce cru m b led in to its w eird fla k y p o w d e r pleats and was b e fo r e him as he returned fro m a m om en ta ry flirta tion with a past fa ce — he d e cid e d n o t to lo o k at her b u t to m erely feel her p resen ce as he did w ith Sheila.

The road mawed ahead as he Eent on to elbow into the greater space, slow­ ing after a couple o f miles to turn o ff onto the bush tracks passing in a dance o f cat caution century old mine digs still yawing raw — B. shuffled on over heaps o f internal debris — ahead a wind-break o f old w ool five six arms wavin gin a ritual o f passing and raising — he hunkered down arching his back to further break up the wind, dust-filled — the bottle duly reached him and he drank down a searing gulp and it passed on into a receptive black claw — two, three, four bottles coming round welfare day — until they were all far gone - from under his coat came the bottle saved from the greedy gullet o f the whiskey piano princess — knowing her, they laughed — round and round — white cargo — acknow­ ledged as the red warmed them — finished completely each locked in his own pain they lurched and shuffl­ ed o ff one by one — somebody laughed — and his molecular struct­ ure disintegrating into the red dust soft. Bluey lay in an aged waggon rut and lay there gazing at the shimering starlets young gum leaves and was pleased — Sheila put the finishing touches to her toilette and wonder-worried what had become o f Bluey in the past two days - she looked fretfully at the starving dog before her — he would not live and it was closing in on her at last - it is not as if we don’t know because we do — desert flowers swam in her tears — yet she had expected it prepared — she cried.

B luey struggled ou t o f a strangely d eep sleep dragging a reluctant soul through w ide black zon es - sun iso­ lated him o n the bare grou nd —a p iece o f b a con in a fiery pan — he vom ited and had to get aw ay from it mess — and was p itching forw ard in to n oth in g com in g to rest beside a bu lk y b o d y and it sm elled — so a b la ck - he put his arm a ffe ctio n a te ly a b ou t the fellow -traveller and qu ietly died — Sheila was an xiou s to nausea — a life thread dangling d an gerously — she co u ld n o t be saved she was g oin g to live— the smell o f v om it assailed her nostrils and she stared m o re fear­ fu lly at the shrunken o l f d og.

A tru ck trundled alon g a bush tra ck — a steady y ou n g b o y w a tch ed care­ fu lly fo r over-hanging bushes — stop p in g he g ot d ow n fro m the cab and while his father dragged som e b lo o d ie d goat carcases fro m the tray he w alked to the edge o f the pit — interested in the progress o f d ecay o f the last load — his co u n try eyes w id ened slow ly at the sight — an o ld man em braced a m a g goty goat corp se and togeth er th ey o ffe r e d up their putrid richness.

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M iles F ra n k lin w ro te her firs t novel. M y B rillian t C areer, at th e age o f sixteen. R ac y , daring and anarchic, her style cam e close to th e satirical im pudence and sharpness o f Oscar W ilde Published in 1 9 0 1 , M y B rillia n t Career first attracted th e notice o f H en ry Lawson, then the litera ry critics hailed it. W ith com plete panache she had tu rn ed the tables on con­ ventional p lo t structure, declaring th a t a plot was fo r people w ith th e tim e and m o n e y to w o rk one o u t. T h e naturalistic style was criticized heavily b y pedants as having 'all th e faults o f y o u th '. B ut th e b o ok revealed a precocious intelligence and a deadly accu­ racy w ith regard to characterisation. M iles obviously accepted no a u th o rity o th er than her ow n o p in io n and this was n o t regarded as a la d y lik e tr a it at th e tim e . She had been

stifled by c oun try existence on her fa m ily 's farm in the M onaro district and yearned fo r the stim ulation of oth er people, ideas, music.

On the book's pu blicatio n, she fo u n d her­ self attacked by relatives fo r exceeding the conventional bounds of fe m in in ity and betraying fa m ily privacy. D ue to this pressure ^ she decided to leave Australia and devoted herself to the suffragette m ovem ent in A m erica and England, later w o rkin g as a nurse fo r the Red Cross during W orld War 1. A fte r the w ar she was em ployed by the N ational Housing C ouncil in London, returning to reside in Sydney in 1 9 3 3 . H er later novels were published under the pseudonym B rent of Bin Bin CARM EL KELLY

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PHANTOM PHENOMENON: Several millimetres o f this leaf have been cut away — indicated by the arrows. After removal o f part o f the leaf, a Kirlian photo still shows the entire leaf as before, though fainter in the area where the portion o f the leaf is actually missing.

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HE TERMS extra sensory perception (ESP), psychical research and para psychology in this article, relate to the investiga­ tion o f phenomena which d o not at present conform to known laws o f science.

Before perhaps adopting a nega­ tive attitude to para psychology we should consider the work o f Valentina and Semyon Kirlian, tw o Soviet scientists. Over the past thirty years with the use o f high speed photography, they have managed to see in living mat­ ter a secondary “ energy-body” , a body which the human eye cannot see. The energy-body exists in­ dependently from the physical b od y and it is thought that this force field is the aura mediums over the past few centuries have seen around people.

Then there is the fact o f hypnotism.

A bout 90 percent o f all people can be hypnotised. Y ou cannot hypnotise a feeble minded person.

A bout 25 percent can be induced to the deep trance state suitable for mental telepathy. Perhaps one in a hundred will exhibit certainpara-normal behavior.

I myself have tried some ex­ periments in this area, and con­ sider it well worth further study.

However, I found the problem o f obtaining enough subjects very difficult.

Dr J. Rodney, an English medi­ cal doctor, reports in his book , Explorations o f a Hypnotist, upon a selection o f interesting cases. He writes about Mrs Baker who, when under deep hypnosis was age regressed to a period before she was bom , began speaking in French.

The hypnotist asked, “ Do you know the name o f the great gen­ eral?” “ Oui, Bonaparte.” “ Which street do you live?” “ C ’est Le Rue de St Pierre.” “ What d o you drink?” “ La bire” and so on.

Dr R odn ey’s comments are as follow s: I addressed my inquiries to M. Jean-Claude Riviere, a French journalist o f my acquaintance who, after a little local research, provided me with tw o highly provocative items o f intelligence.

The first name Mrs Baker had given while in a deep trance Marielle Palasse - was not only French, but historic. It has now, so far as he could gather, fallen

out o f use. Still more fascinating there was, he informed me, no Rue St Pierre today; but at the time o f the revolution a Rue St Pierre-aux-boeufs had existed on the lie de Cite, close to Notre Dame.

Here was a woman w ho in every day life had no knowledge o f the French language or o f the streets o f Paris. He goes on to say - I ascertained that she had never so much as read a b o o k about the French revolution — there was no question o f her having unwit­ tingly stored a text in her sub­ conscious mind.

How was she able to speak French in a hypnotic trance? Why should the obsolete name o f Marielle Palasse have com e to her mind? And what explanation could there be fo r her talk o f the Rue St Pierre - a street which had vanished decades ago from the Paris scene, but which she had correctly located as lying close to Notre Dame?

In The World o f Ted Serios b y Jule Eisenbud MD Psychiatrist, published 1968 b y Jonathan Cape, London, Eisenbud, an American doctor, claims Ted Serios, an unemployed bellhop, had the uncanny ability to project mental images directly on to a photographic film. Twentyfive doctors o f science signed state­ ments testifying to the validity o f the experiments.

Unfortunately not everyone feels that Ted and people like him are worth scientific study. There are still many who not only con ­ tinue to turn their backs on in­ vestigations o f this sort, but whether they are aware o f it or not will d o everything in their power to sabotage any such pro­ gram. Dr Eisenbud is an Associate Clinical Professor o f Psychiatry.

It is claimed that Professor E. M. Monahan, at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, can make a needle move on a compass and also move a paper clip across a table top. It is called Psycho Kinesis (PK), the ability to move an object by mind energy, an unknown force possibly pro­ duced by the brain. There are also claims b y Russian scientists in this field.

Jn 1969 PK research o f an undisclosed nature was going on in Tbilisi, Georgia, Russia. Nelya Mikhailove, it is claimed, can move objects by use o f the PK factor. Some Soviet scientists

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believe this new form o f energy can be stored.

A fter a fierce eruption o f poltergeist PK activity that plagued the electrical installations and moved furniture in the chancery o f R. A . Adams at R os­ enheim, Austria was observed in 1967 and at the beginning o f 1968 by witness accounts - in­ vestigations b y civic works as well as b y Dr F. Karger o f the Institute o f Plasmaphysics. Consider the results if such forces, projected by a human outside the power o f technicians could influence a hydro plant, missile base or elec­ trical plant. If a way is found to control and increase the PK force in a human being, then it could becom e a deadly weapon. Russian scientists must be aware o f its potential.

In Telepathic Hypnosis, a paper to the Societe de Physiologique in 1885, Pierre Janet, a young neurologist, stated he could confirm the claims made b y Dr Gilbert o f Le Havre. The report caused wide interest and argu­ ment. Professor Janet was a re­ spected scientist o f that period.

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this experiment. It was a classic o f its time.

But we will move on to the present. Dr Vasiliev (Russian) carried ou t many experiments in this area. The Soviets, always thorough, placed the subject in a Faraday Cage. This completely stopped radio waves, but tele­ pathy still operated. They then built a lead capsule with a gully filled with mercury.

The subject, Fedorova, was placed inside the Faraday Cage.

Tomashevky, the sender, climbed into the capsule and the heavy dom ed lid was lowered. No waves could move in or out, telepathy just could not happen. But it is claimed it did. The subject lost c o n s c io u s n e s s by telepathic hypnosis.

Vasiliev had built what is still considered to be the w orld’s best p ro o f that known electro­ magnetic waves) or radio waves d o not carry telepathy. Towards the end o f his life he published his experiments in Mental Suggestion (1962). Further reading: Vasiliev L. — Suggestions at a Distance — N otes o f a Physiologist, Moscow Gospolitizdat 1962.

If mental telepathy is proved to be a fact, can the power or force be increased by some means? The Russians have no doubt thought o f this to o ; in fact Czech b io ­ chemist Dr Milan R yzi stated in Psychic: “ The bulk o f recent telepathy research in the USSR is concerned with the transmission o f behavior impulses — or research to subliminally control an indi­ vidual’ s conduct.” Visiting Soviet para psychology laboratories in 1967, Dr Ryzl says he was told by a Russian it could be used as a form o f propaganda, what else?

The USSR has the means to keep the results o f such research secret, and if applications such as the above are possible, no dou bt the Soviet Union will use them.

Dr Genady Sergeyev o f the A. A. Uktomski (1968) Physiological Institute (Leningrad Military Lab) talks about human force fields. He claims he set up detectors some distance from the b od y o f a clinically dead man. No brain waves or heart beat could be recorded, but the detectors leaped into action! Four yards from the dead man the electromagnetic force fields were pulsing. Had an energy force been released?

Prejudice is a fact o f human life. It is in general blind, some­ times a primitive fear. Para psychology also suffers from it.

Perhaps it’s a condition a human being would be better without, but sadly I doubt if a single person grows up without some form o f prejudice. Every human being in a free society should have the right to his own views or belief. But what has para psy­ chology to do with belief? I have dwelt on Russia because a lot o f work is going on there.

How many years ahead o f the west are they? While many people in the west refuse to believe that ESP exists, it seems likely that top calibre Soviet scientists are mak­ ing significant breakthroughs in psychical research.

Our universities, Australian and English, teach and research social sciences, psychology etc; all o f value in our com plex society, but are we to continue to ignore the mounting evidence of para psychology? Anything that effects changes, controls a human being - is this not also vitally im­ portant? Para psychology is not the preserve o f crackpots, in fact, in general, it is more the preserve o f serious thinking people.

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E O R G E O rw ell certainly liked his beer. C o u ld n ’t drag him away fro m his lo ca l h o te l. “ G eorg e” , th e y ’d say. “ C om e h o m e and w rite your b o o k . T he w o r ld ’s w aiting.”

A nd h e ’d reply “ N o mate, hold o n ” , and w en t o n drinking. There are claims that G eorge invented the six-pack so he co u ld take it to the z o o where he w as researching one o f his b o o k s . He used to dream ab ou t his favorite h otel. It was on e o f his relatives over here w h o brou gh t in ten o ’c lo c k closing.

But o f course he w o u n d up in Burma etc. fo r a w h ile and it was there the co sm o s revealed to him w hat it was all ab ou t. Tea. T he story goes he was sitting in a m o n so o n on e evening — as he was w o n t to d o — just outsid e o f R an goon , w hen the flash cam e. T he skies rang, nay the very heavens spoke. A ll w hen it was all d o n e , G eorge knew that was, as it w ere, w here it was at.

Back in England basking in the y ellow o f the night, G eorge sipped his tea and thought socialist thoughts.

W hen he wasnt sinking b ro w n ales and the ilk.

His recip e fo r g o o d tea making was sim ple, and p ro b a b ly any Warrigul lady cou ld tell y o u similar Firstly a china p o t, w h ich is pre­ heated, is m ade the h o m e fo r a num ­ ber o f teasp oon s o f tea. T he c o m ­ m o n usage is on e tea sp o o n for each participant, and o n e for the p ot.

S e co n d ly a g o o d ly am oun t o f w a­ ter is b o ile d in a sterile recepticle over a gas or w o o d flam e. M ost im ­ portan tly, the water m ust have reached boilin g p oin t. T h en the p o t is taken to the kettle, as they say, and n ot v ice versa. S u fficien t water is elegantly, bu t speedily added. T he tea p o t is then rotated three times, and left to stand fo r a m axim um time o f fou r and a half minutes.

W hen the tea has “ dra w n ” it m ay be poured in to tea cups. M ilk m ay b e added as desired. Sugar is o u t — w h ite, b r o w n or any co lo r.

Sugar, O rw ell and his follow ers m aintained, su cceeds o n ly in dim ini­ shing the flavor o f the tea. N ote that m ilk is added to the tea and n o t in any sense the oth er w ay around.

T hen it is drunk. Use china cups, also.

It is a delica te drink. Can y o u seriously conjure the queen drinking

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ROSS HENRY CALES have been sliding throughout the world for many years. Most people are familiar with the sliding scale as a method o f computation: taxes, wages, prices, stagecoach fares and so on, but these areas o f operation form only a part o f the total activity o f the sliding scale.

Take the time Sir Edmund Hillary accompanied by Kanchenjunga and a team o f loyal Yetis, and with but a meagre supply o f K2 rations to sustain them, scaled and slid about the Western Cwm, the Lhotse Face and all those other icy, inhospitable places where the scorching northerlies blow continuously, the bush fires rage and life as we know it cannot

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c o ffe e , w h ich is the sort o f stu ff p e o p le splash o n their fa ces at the breakfast table b e fo re rushing fo r the 8 .5 0 ? M erely a stim ulant to m ake the pen push faster. T h a t’s w h y big business has m ore c o ffe e breaks, and less tea breaks. C h o c o ­ late drinks, o f course, are fit on ly fo r oafs, charlatans and children w h o need a lo t o f energy to smash each other roun d the playpen , o r w herever it is they learn to g row up.

But tea is to b e sip ped. Q u ietly.

Bring ba ck the tea h ou ses goes the cry. Past A ugu st it m ay w ell b e, and the lunar phase y et to com e.

T h a t’s the o n e c o n so la tio n o f rail­ w ay stations. A part fr o m taking y o u away fro m places, th e y have tea houses. U n fortu n ately m ost o f them have degenerated to the teabag level.

P oor G eorge w o u ld turn in his cry p t.

W ould he w ere here n o w , o r even in eleven years h en ce. A n d instant tea.

G o o d grief w h a t’s the w o rld com in g to.

Imagine a swagman tossing instant tea or tea bags in to his b illy . S o m e ­ h o w it ’s n o t the same. O r even c o f ­ fee. Is nothing sacred. It has the ring o f an early H u m p hrey Bogart m ovie w here he b ou n d s through the w in d o w in his w h ites w ith a racqu et and asks y o u k n o w w h at. E very­ b o d y was to o busy drinking c o ffe e because it was an A m erican m ovie.

A pparen tly they d o n t have w atercress in H o lly w o o d .

A h bu t ba ck to nature, b a ck to tea, a natural drink. O u t o f the c o f ­ fee houses and cafes and to the tea houses, possibly in our droves. It com es from a plant, o b v io u s ly it ’s organic. Camellia Theasinensis to be precise. Flourishes in Japan, India, China. Cem ent relations w ith our Asian neighbours. D ow n w ith the C o m m o n Market and fascist Chile, and their “ d e ca d e n t” c o ffe e beans.

Talking about real tea though. N o t you r fe y teas like Jasmine, A lfalfa (on ly a w e e d after all) and d an d e­ lion, w h ich is w hat y o u lo o k at in gardens.

T h ey all have their places, bu t n ot as tea. Proper teas is w hat.

O fficia l teas so that after y o u ’ve had them , y o u k n o w y o u ’ve had a drink.

Black stuff y o u can put m ilk in.

Undershtand, as Cagney used to say.

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Scales exist. (There is no more terrifying sight than a Himalayan crown fire at four thousand fathoms. Som e­ times the flames leap from Col to Col and then back again in a matter o f seconds.)

Scale 30 feet, slide 20; scale 15 feet, slide ten; that was the m onotonous pattern day after day, week after week, until Sir Edmund felt himself tensing up so much that he was forced to take a breather - a short respite — to enjoy, as it were, an idle to the north o f Katmandu.

That the scale in its various forms is the basis o f western music is generally wellknown, but what might be fresh intelligence to some is the role the sliding scale has played in musical com ­

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position, particularly the works o f Beethoven.

Ludwig raced a whole stable o f sliding scales: major, minor, ch ro­ matic, harmonic and all the rest.

Usually he kept them under wraps, allowing only a few close friends to view them, and then solely through an old U-boat peri­ scope which he often happened to have handy.

However, one evening while he was strumming away at Lilli Mar­ lene with his tuba, entertaining a conclave o f music critics, disaster struck: several o f his sliding scales escaped from inside the piano­ forte. Softly then loudly, before the horrified gaze o f the audience, they slid quickly to the floor, arpeggioed in and out o f the

assembled chair legs and were out o f the salon and down the cor­ ridor before anyone could say “ Jack Lowenbrau” .

Beethoven was furious. He be­ rated the stunned critics with every note on the keyboard, hurl­ ing sonata after sonata out through the window and into the moonlight. “ Dum bkopfs” , he screamed, hoeing savagely at the first o f the season’s beet sprouting through the carpet. “ Vy did you allow them to get away? By now they will have found a haydnplace, and I vill have to look for them. Do you vant me to diaton­ ic?”

So upset was the meister by the incident that he developed a severe eroica and had to take a

Bechstein to stave o ff an attack o f the acciaccaturas to which he was prone.

So you see, there is more to the sliding scale than the econ­ omists would have us believe. In addition, ask any professional fisherman one who really knows his jo b - why some fish are easier to clean than others.

And in most countries the reply will be the same; because o f the sliding scale, o f course. Why are some weighing-machines treacher­ ous underfoot? Same answer.

There is little doubt but that the sliding scale has been with us, and will be with us, for a long time.

MUSIC Take the Dead to the sunshine

THE GRATEFUL DEAD: WAKE OF THE FLOOD (Grateful Dead Records, GD 0 1 ) HE Grateful Dead is above all else a consistent band.

They established their identity and musical style in the hippy era o f San Francisco and they have successfully weathered the trials and uncertainties which have be­ set their people.

They have become, without really trying, a band o f interna­ tional stature and they have also, to some degree, been responsible for the renaissance which has been slowly revitalising the US west coast for the past 12 months or so.

This is their tenth album, the first recorded in the studio since American Beauty, which was re­ leased three years ago. They are, primarily, a performing band, and they have been generally dis­ appointed with what they have been able to achieve in the studio.

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have made serious attempts to com e to terms with studio record­ ing in solo albums, and Wake o f the Flood benefits from this ex­ perience.

There is something about the Grateful Dead which gives their music a link with Australia, but I have never been able to quite put my finger on just what it is.

Maybe it’ s something to d o with the fact that California has gum trees; maybe it is the lack o f polish in the Dead’s music, a rawness which is quite gentle in its way, but is thoroughly uncom ­ promising ; maybe it is because the Dead play strictly outdoors music, and always manage to sound slightly inappropriate in a living room.

I have been trying to work out just what kind o f setting they envisaged this album would be played in. Y ou can’t dance to it.

On the other hand it makes you feel restless, even a little guilty if you just lie back and try to get into it. When it com es dow n to it, it’s work music — put the speakers

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As we hover on the no-man’sland between nationalism and in­ ternationalism, perhaps we could make the appropriate gesture and adopt one o f the songs from this album as our national anthem.

T h ey ’re easy to sing along with and the sentiments are relevant.

Wake up to find ou t that you are the eyes o f the world The heart has its beaches, its homeland and ports o f its own.

Wake up to find out that y o u are the song that the morning brings The heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs o f its own.

Let’s face it, grand finals would be far more liberated and honest occasions after an opening like that.

However, there is no place fo r sentimentality in a record review.

There are no doubt some serious Dead freaks w ho will want to know if the new album represents a significant advance over Horrie Dargie’s Barbecue Favorites vol 1 & 2. The answer is yes. A nyone w ho has enjoyed any o f the Dead’ s previous albums will also appreciate this one. Wake o f the Flood has a timeless quality to it.

There are musical references back to the early Anthem fo r the Sun and A oxa m oxoa albums, but it retains the easy, unpretentious feel o f their more recent work. It is above all an optimistic record, the general message being that no matter how bad things get, if you keep on pushing, and recognise bad luck for what it is, humanity will ultimately prevail.

Readers o f TLD who are not familiar with the group should not feel wary about buying their rec­ ords. The average person will find that it takes a few tries to get o f f on them, but d o n ’t be put o ff, it’ s worth it in the end. Dead freaks are b y and large an approachable bunch, who welcom e any o p ­ portunity to help the new chum.

Local Distributors, W.E.A. as­ sured me that they were releasing a new Grateful Dead record some time round the middle o f next month, though they confessed that they didn’t know what it was called. In the meantime the bur­ geoning import shops o f the major capitals should be able to supply your needs (with superior Ameri­ can pressings - so much for na­ tionalism).

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ERLIN is one o f the few conceptual rock and roll albums to really work. Each song adds to the pattern o f tragedy Lou Reed is weaving, yet each song is able to stand alone.

On this one album, Reed manages to convey, in his sinister New Y ork style, every sick and sad aspect of a fractured relationship. N ot a very pleasant concept perhaps, and open - as is anything innovative in pop music - to the label pretentious.

Som ehow however, he pulls it o ff. The album opens to a haunting 1930s piano, with a background o f drunken cabaret hubbub. “ In Berlin by the w a ll. . . oh honey, it was paradise.”

Lady Day is the lady herself, w ho, like Billie Holiday "had to go in and sing” while "h e ” said “ no, no, n o” . Lou Reed sings much o f the album in the role o f the male in the relationship and it is not surprising that rumors have arisen about the amount o f biographical material in this album, for in a sense it is far more com forting to believe that Reed writes from experience than to recognise the really fine insight into the sick and jealous part o f human nature that he has.

In Lady Day we see the beginnings o f the relationship, with a slightly awesome view o f the extroverted lady from her admirer.

Men o f G ood Fortune is enough to tell us that the narrator doesnt really care about anything at all, though he ruminates loosely on good fortune as opposed to “ p oor beginnings” . It is the least essential song on the album — nice enough, but it does little more than set the rather detached and sinister tone for Reed as narrator.

Then Lady Day becomes Caroline in Caroline says (1) far removed from the stage now, right into the bedroom. “ Caroline says that I’m just a toy, She wants a man, and not just a boy” and what is more she says “ she’ll go and get it, catch as catch can” , though she’ s still at this stage, his “ Germanic Queen” . In Candy Says as from the days o f the Velvet Underground, Reed uses the device o f developing the story line through reported speech, so that in the listener he develops an intimacy o f “ you, me and her” .

Simple enough, but very effective in the narration o f a story such as this.

Oh Jim is one o f the strongest songs on the LP, with some fine drumming from Ainsley Dunbar.

In this song the “ to y ’s” position is examined; his two bit friends “ They put you on the stage, they thought it’d be good for a laugh” , and through this he divines a cure all for “ When y ou ’re filled up to here with hate” . . . “ Beat her black and blue and get it straight.” With its driving chorus and gentle rocking ending, this song demonstrates Reed's original feel for and interpretation o f pre-Bowie rock and roll.

Next time Caroline Says (2) it is “ as she gets up o ff the floor” ,

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“ Y ou can hit me all you want to, but I dont love you any more” .

The detach ed narration is unnerving on this and the following songs, as each records the mounting destructiveness o f the relationship. He speaks with all the involvement o f a man in permanent shock, a state which R eed’s curiously laconic nasal voice lends itself to readily.

The Kids carefully lists her sins, slurring from “ the cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front o f m e” to "th e girlfriend in from Paris” - all reasons why they are now “ taking her children away” . The lover makes little com m ent on this ju d g m e n t, sin ce h is real preoccupation is not with his children but with: “ That miserable rotten slut (who) couldnt turn anyone away.” The kids themselves only make their presence felt in the heartrending end o f the song, where their screams and cries for Mummy are used as instruments a m id g u ita rs , bass an d harmonium.

It’s been done before, I know.

Kamahl even used a real kids choir on 100 Children, but this time the producer manages to put the fear o f God into the listener before you have time to mock.

The Bed is the place where “ she lay her head” , where “ our children were conceived” and “ where she cut her wrists that odd and fateful night” . In a sense he feels revenged: “ I would never have started if I’d known That it’d end this way But funny thing, I'm not at all sad” The ee rie 2001 ty p e synthesiser ending finally gives way to a Somewhere Over The Rainbow beginning and Sad Song confirms the relief - she wasnt Lady Day, a Germanic Queen or Mary Queen o f Scots, "Just shows how wrong you can b e” " I ’m gonna stop wasting my time, "Som ebody else would have broken both her arms.”

And dilemma thus resolved, Reed takes over the words Sad Song from the choir, transforming th em fr o m a m eaningful statement to a nice happy Nilsen-like chant, a great ending for any rock song.

It is a great relief to be let down gently because it hasnt been an easy ride.

As with Reed’s Transformer, no effort has been spaied in achieving the desired musical effect. Each backing musician and they include Jack Bruce (bass), Ainsley Dunbar (drums) and Stevie Winwood (organ & harmonium) stands out brilliantly on his own, and musically there is room on the album for them to do this without it resulting in a “ London Super Star Session” .

A t least get hold o f a copy and listen to it once. Perhaps that will be enough, but give it a chance. It shows just how much o f a punch a record can pull.

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MUSIC she's got personal problems, so we’ re trying to keep it quiet.” “ Does she or does she not sing songs like I am Woman?" “ Well o f course b u t . . . ” “ Will she be interviewed by any female journalists?” “ I dare say they will send a woman to interview her.” “ Yes, but will they send a feminist journalist?” “ N ow look, I’ve told you I can’ t help you - anyway I dont have the authority to send out invites.”

So he gives me the name o f the guy w ho does. He's nice: He says I can com e to the press conference.

All that patriarchal bureaucracy (her husband is her personal man­ ager), and behind it all such a diminutive, strong-styled vocalist.

The reception is the usual pissup scene with about 50 people.

One hour later (through a haze o f scotches and brandy dries) Helen R eddy plus husband are regally announced into the room. She looks drawn and haggard and em­ barrassed.

A fter the obligatory polite handclaps layers o f interviewers form concentric circles round her.

Then she is spun b y her husbandmanager to the cooler, less co n ­ scientious journos. She seems a bit fazed but the grin is set hard: she has the makings o f a good liamson’s, “ the invitations have socialite. already gone out to the press.”

I wind m y way over. She’s "C an’t you add one more to talking about Australian audiences the list?” and the shortcomings o f indige­ “ Sorry, it’s gonna be a small nous superstardom: “ The problem personal affair,” he says. “ Only with making it here first is that the major press will be there — y ou can’t make it over there (the

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States) straight away. They like different things over there and it takes a while to find out what they are. Yes o f course it’s hard to get on the plane ‘ som ebody’ and to get out o f it ‘ n ob od y’ it’s a psychological trauma.” “ That I am Woman song - I wrote it m yself and R oy Morgan worked with me on the lyrics. At the time I'd been singing a lot and I wanted to write a song that meant something to me: and that’s what came out o f it.” “ Yes I’ m interested in the wom ens movement. I started a consciousness-raising group in LA a couple o f years ago. I just helped ou t with lectures and stuff.

I didnt d o any o f the organising.” “ I d o quite a lot o f concerts for these sort o f groups. Last year I did a concert for the prisoners on Terminal Island in California.

The audience response is very immediate. I like doing that kind o f work. “ I’ m also interested in wom en prisoners. Women prisoners have special problems. Y ou see, when they g o to prison they leave their kids behind. They dont know what happens to them or how

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they’ re being looked after. Unlike men prisoners w ho leave their children with their wives. Women prisoners have different problems that have been neglected for to o long. I think it’s wrong that w om ­ en should be jailed for prosti­ tution . . .’ ’ Whereupon her husband winds a firm strong arm around her waist and introduces her to an­ other set o f jou m os for their token five minute round o f ques­ tions. Smiles all round. All so friendly, so forced and so well managed. She’ s lucky to have such a husband: “ I owe a lot to him for my success.”

Ah well, credit where credit is due. But what about the guy who wrote the lyrics for I am Woman and worked on it with her? R oy Morgan reckons he got $2000 out o f the deal. He reckons he is owed $60,000 more.

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T he first listing o f the w e e k ’s events in M elb ou rn e. N e x t w eek , S y d n e y t o o . (O th er grand m etrop olises later.) M E L B O U R N E M O N IT O R : Chris & Eva 5 1 .9 5 6 3 , w rite Flat 8 , N o 7 Irving A ve, W indsor, 3 1 8 1 . S Y D N E Y M O N IT O R : S teph en Wall 6 9 8 .2 6 5 2 , P. O . B o x 2 3 , Surry Hills.

Listings are free. C o p y closes T hu rsday b e fo re p u b lica tion .

V \ o**> 0cr\ m i MUSIC Cup Rock, Sherbert, Ariel, Madder Lake, Mississippi, John Graham and Blackspur, Festival Hall.

I M ighty Kong, Station » Hotel.

Light Brigade, Croxton Park.

MUSIC T. Rex, Colored Balls, Fes­ tival Hall.

Mighty Kong, Redhouse Roll Band, Whitehorse HoteL Red House Roll Band, Croxton Park.

S h e r b e r t, S u n dow n er, Geelong.

CARLTON Mississippi, Trak Centre.

FAIR B u shw ackers and Bullockies, Polaris Inn. Poetry reading, Aboriginal Frank Traynor, Folk.

Dances, Players Caravan (5.30).

DRAM A WORKSHOP Alan Lee (6.30), Carlton Drama and Creative Move­ 1 Gardens (Nth. end o f Exhi ment — casual and interest­ I bitiori Gardens). ed in new ideas, 7.30 on, Claremont Theatre, South Open air recital, John Yarra.

Matthews (Didgeridoo) Pete*M um m e (AKS FILM Synthesiser), MacArthur ‘O ctober’ — Eisenstein, Park, 2 pm.

Union Theatre 8pm, (if no power strike).

Carlton Ring and BarbeN F TA ‘ Belle de Jour’ ‘ Cul lque, Royal Park Hall, de Sac’ , Carlton Theatre I Burns Drive, Dancing and 7.40pm ($3 joining fee, ■ Drink — Jolly!

7.00 $1.20 film, 80c students) pm -1.00 am.

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MEETINGS Australian Science Educa­ tio n P ro je c t Display, 7.30pm, Diamond Valley Learning Centre.

Tenancy Union — meeting to discuss forming tenants union against bad land­ lo r d s .

U ndergradu ates Lounge, Melbourne Uni Union. Sponsored by LinkUp. Orientation Night on LinkUp. 51.7425, 59 St John St, Prahran.

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MUSIC J Groups, Ayres R ock, Mat­ thew Flinders.

Colored Balls, Penthouse Hotel.

Buster Brown, Parade Col­ lege, Bundoora.

Slice, Warren Ponds Hotel, Geelong.

Billy Thorpe & Aztecs, Mis­ sissippi, C roxton Park.

Mississippi, Penthouse.

La De Das, St Albans Hotel.

John Graham & Blackspur, Station Hotel.

MUSIC Groups, Madder Lake, Broadmeadows T ow n Hall.

Ariel, Fat Alroy, Matthew Flinders.

B ig Push, Whitehorse Hotel.

John Rupert and the Henchmen, C roxton Park.

Billy Thorpe, Tank, Ex­ change Hotel. The La De Das, International Hotel.

Mississippi, M oe City Hall.

M ig h ty K ong, John Graham & Blackspur, Teas­ ers.

Ariel, Sherbert, Matthew Flinders.

Trad. Folk & Experimental Melbourne new music en­ (1.00am ). (See late entries for details o f artists), Com ­ semble, Commune, 60c. mune, 60c.

Dave Rankin, Alma Hotel.

The Prickly Bush, Dan O ’Connell Hotel, 8pm.

Frank Traynor.

T a n k e r v ille A rm s, 8—10pm.

FILM ‘ Mother Joan of the Angels’ ‘Jerzy Kawalerowisz’, Union Theatre 8pm. (based on ‘ The Devils o f L on d on ’ — A ldous Huxley) (if no power strike).

HIS COLUMN aims at exploring the nooks and crannies o f Aus­ tralian and overseas information tems and printouts. I’m assuming that all inform ation is tainted by special interests and that utility is more impor­ tant than the source. k k k THE National Library o f Australia publishes a b ook each year called Current Australian Serials. It has great potential as an info source. It is “ a selected list o f Australian serials in print and aims to provide the necessary details to intending subscribers. It cov­ ers all subject areas, the basis for selection being the reference and re­ search value o f articles within each publication” . More to the point it is a list o f magazines with subscription details.

If your interests are aroused by the thought o f 1577 Australian periodicals on topics such as fo o d technology, gardening, films, fashion, demography, zoos, water supplies, politics and elec­ tronics, then this b ook is for you. It is available at any o ffice o f the Australian Government Publishing Service or send $1.50 plus 60 cents postage to AGPS Mail Order Sales, PO box 84, Canberra, ACT 2600. k

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WE SEEM to be witnessing a new interest in local politics in Sydney.

Have heard it is the same in the southern states. I had the feeling some­ thing was bound to happen in this country when I read o f ex Panthers and Chicago Eighters extolling the vir­ tues o f working thru the System.

Well, it’s happening and I dont care really — given the incompetents and 1 featherbedders in power at the local level at present.

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MUSIC Groups, Mackenzie Theo­ ry, Teasers, 10.30-11.30 pm.

Fantasy, C roxton Park.

S lim D u s ty , Captain M atchbox, Dallas Brooks Hall. 2.30pm .

M ig h ty Kong, Dendy Cinema, Brighton.

Mississippi, Matthew Flind ers.

FILM La De Das, Mississippi, ‘ L es C ou sin s’ Claude Brooklyn Drive-In, Brook­ Chabrol, State Film Cen­ lyn. tre, 1 MacArthur St, East; Melbourne. Admission by^ Brian Brown Quartet, subscription only — $10' inc. NFTH membership Commune.

Danny Spooner and Gor­ from NFTA. d on MacIntyre, Frank Contem porary Folk Com ­ Traynor’s, 100 Lt. Lons­ MEETINGS mune, 9.00, 60c. dale St., City, 80c. (Also C h ild b ir t h E d u c a tio n open every night o f the Assoc., General Meeting, week).

116-120 Glenferrie Rd, Jerry and the Reboppers, Malvern, 509.9985.

43 Hardware Lane, Jazz Concert National Gallery Slides & Talk. Nillumbik and be-bop 1—5pm.

Great Hall. Recording for Historical Soc., Diamond Valley Learning Centre.

ABC. 20c.

7.30pm.

KIDS Claremont Theatre, George % and Dragon 1, $1 adults, Margaret Roadknight, Out­ 50c Kids. 2pm. post Inn, 8pm —12am. 60c.

FILM ‘ K w a id a n ’ K obayashi (Japan 3 hrs). Union The­ atre 8pm. (If no power FILM MEETINGS strike).

‘S hoot the Pianist’ T ru f­ faut, and ‘Kanal’ Andrzej Talk b y Graeme Pearl on Wajda, 8pm Union Theatre the Alexander Technique Natural Hygiene Associa­ (If no power strike).

MEETINGS tion, Friends House, 631 THEATRE A u s t r a lia —India Assoc.

Orrong Rd, Toorak. 7.30.

Late Supper Show (11 pm) ‘ India T od^ y ’ — talk by — Great Stumble Forward, Miss V inola Thauer 8pm., Skyhook and friends.

631 Orrong Rd, Toorak.

Food, dancing, etc. Digger benefit, $1 or donation.

Pram Factory, 325 Drum­ m ond S t ., C a r lt o n , i 347.7133.

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‘A night o f Australian F olk’ (9.00 Traditional pm) & Experimental Music (1.00 am), Commune, 60c.

MUSIC Groups, Madder Lake, Canapas.

Sid R um po, Teasers.

Colored Balls, Ayres Rock, Myriad, Chelsea City Hall Colored Balls, Canapas.

Threshold, Atlas, D on­ caster T ow n Hall.

John Rupert and the H en ch m en , Whitehorse Hotel.

Big Push, C roxton Park.

Tank, Upp, Red House Roll Band, Blaises.

La De Das, Station Hotel, 2—5 pm Mighty Kong, La De Das, Matthew Flinders.

ing press go hand in hand. A fine example o f people working together sys­ for local reform is a Sydney group called W omen Active Politically. For those interested in what might be done with a small press a subscription to Local Issue, their local m onthly on Hunters Hill, w ould be good value. It aims at enabling readers to be better inform ed voters, to provide access to public inform ation at local State and Federal levels and to follow develop­ ments in education, aboriginal advance­ ments and wom ens rights.

The October issue deals with alter­ native transport, council news, local candidate appraisals and comm unal liv­ ing in the suburbs.

Grass roots info at $2.00 for ten issues. Local Issue, 10 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill 2110.

HE M AJOR trading banks in Australia publish a number o f useful m onthly and quarterly zines. The two that I receive are the Bank o f NSW Review and the A N Z Business Indicators. Review normally has a few articles o f interest to budding econom ists; the bod s behind the Busi­ ness Indicators get their rocks o f f each month drawing graphs on investment, overseas trade, unem ploym ent, housing statistics. Y ou can find yourself on the mailing list for both these special inter­ est mags either by asking over the counter or by writing to their respec­ tive head offices. Both are free and the price is right. If you know o f similar publications, let me know.

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OK, so you are at last out o f the decaying city, settled on to a 17 acre river fronted, heavily w ooded, black soiled comm une. N ow what d o ya do?

Y ou have realised by now ,-that man does not live by bean sprouts and fresh

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air alone. Y our herbal tea crop has failed and no one will buy your male goats. Y ou have read that the up and coming thing in continental communes is soft technology. Y ou are not into a fully integrated iron and steel works yet but you have to d o something, like quick, as m oney is running out.

What to do? I dont know. In the meantime I suggest you fantasise on the possibility o f setting up an industry suited to your environs, assisted b y the New South Wales government.

This government is rumortd to be interested in decentralisation, not /o u r kind but their kind. T o keep your dream rolling, write and ask them to put you on their list for New South Wales Horizons. This bi-m onthly will tell you how to increase your profits and at the same time, feel the soil between your toes.

Inside this printed gem you will read o f those w ho have successfully trans­ ported their worries from the cities to the country. It is not written for you , Blue, but if you are really serious and/or desperate, spin them a line and send it to The Editor, NSW Horizons, Box 4169, GPO, Sydney 2001. Som e­ thing tells me that they w on ’ t cater to maga­ interstate requests. * * *

HE New Journalist is b y far the best information source on Aus­ tralian media I have seen. It is written and published by dissatisfied media freaks from the straight press, TV, and radio oligopoly and is always good for a bit o f inside info. It consistently features articles on com m unity access, TV, worker participation, the press barons, the AJA, and politics. Besides it’s exciting to read! Four bucks buys you 12 copies, more or less m onthly.

Box K750, Haymarket 2000.

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HCW TO GET THERE MUSIC

Alma Hotel, 32 Chapel St, St Kilda, 94.6348; Beaumaris Civic Centre, Re­ serve Rd, Beaumaris; Blaizes, Moubray St, Prahran; Broadmeadows Town Hall, Pascoe Vale Rd, Broad­ m eadows (opp. Station); Centenary Hall, C ox Road, Nor lane, Geelong; Chelsea City Hall, Station St, Chelsea; Canapas, B ox Hill Town Hall, Box Hill; Commune C offee Lounge, 580 Victoria St, North Mel­ bourne; Coburg Town Hall, Bell St, 3 5 0.16 11; C roxton Park, 607 High St, Preston, 4 8 0.22 33; Dallas Brooks Hall, 300 Albert St, East Melbourne, 41 9.22 88; Dan O'Connell Hotel, cnr Princess & Canning Sts, Carlton; Easy Rider, Whitehorse Hotel, Whitehorse Rd, Nunawading; Exchange Hotel, 1281 Nepean Highway, Cheltenham; Festival Hall, Dudley Street, West M elbourne; F ootscray YMCA, Essex St, West F ootscray; Grove dale Hotel, Torquay Rd, Geelong, 43 .281 4; Gor­ don Institute o f T echnology, Fen­ wick St, Geelong; International Hotel, Sharps Rd, Airport West, 33 8.13 00; Matthew Flinders Hotel, Warrigal Rd, Chadstone, 56.4004; O utpost Inn, 52 Collins St, City, 32 9.91 27; Penthouse Hotel, Cnr Barry s Rd & Maffra St, Broad­ meadows, 309.3211; Polaris Inn, 551 Nicholson St, North Carlton; Power­ house. Lakeside Drive, Albert Park Reserve, Melbourne, 51.7066; Pros­ p ect Hill Hotel. 299 High St. Kew, 86 .726 7; Q Club, K ew Town Hall, Cotham Rd, K ew ; Station Hotel, Greville St, Prahran; St Albans Hotel, M cK echnie St, St Albans; St Peter's, 244 Centre Rd. East Bentleigh; St Therese's, Florence St. Essendon ;

Hall o f St John, Buckley St, Essen­ don; St Vincents Hall, Woodlands St, Strathmore; Sundowner Inn, Cnr Dandenong & Seaford Rds, Sea ford, 786.5211; Swinburne Tech, John St, Hawthorn, 81.0301; Tavern Folk Union Hotel, Cnr Fenwick & Amess Sts, North Carlton, 347.4975; Teasers, 355 Exhibition St, City; Tankerville Arms, Cnr Nicholson & Johnson Sts, Carlton; Waltzing Matilda, Cnr Springvale & Heatherton Rds, Springvale, 546.1333; Windsor Regis, Chapel St, Prahran; Whitehorse Hotel, 274 Whitehoise Rd, Nuna­ wading, 878.5533; University Hotel, Cnr Lygon & Grattan Sts, Carlton, 347.1040; Village Green Hotel, Cnr Springvale & Fern tree Gully Rds, Mt Waverley, 560.8400.

FILMS Melb Uni Union, Royal Parade, Parkville; Carlton Theatre, Faraday St, Carlton; Trak, 445 Toorak Rd, Toorak, 24.9333; Athenaeum, 188 Collins St, City, 63.3831; Dental T h ea tre, Grattan St, Carlton; Ormond Hall, M oubray St, Prahran; Prahran College, High St, Prahran, 51.4676; Diamond Valley Learning Centre, 104 Main St, Greensborough, 435.9060; Prince Philip Theatre, School o f Architecture, Melbourne Uni, Parkville; McClelland Gallery, Studio Park, Boundary Rd, Frankston.

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Going to Ground

Do It Yourself Kung Fu NEXT WEEK in

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h r e w d i e s have got it worked out that they can live o f f the technological society while enjoying the benefits o f rural life. Unfortunately, they are hooked on the over-producing society.

Without the buying power generated by an exploita­ tive econom y there wouldnt be those very convenient injections o f cash. I mean, if everyone was making their ow n sandals where would you be?

One thing must be said for the Earthlings: they are esthetic. They appreciate the smell o f soil, the touch o f natural fibres and the vital flavor o f unprocessed food .

Alas! Such sensitivity bespeaks an intelligent and alert mind. A mind which needs stimulus, conversa­ tion, controversy, contact with other minds . . . whereas hoeing, weeding, fencing and moving ir­ rigation pipes are such bloody boring tasks.

Animals mean fresh milk, eggs, butter. They also mean substitut­ ing the nine to five grind with a six to six grind. Now this is another reason why natural living enthusiasts find themselves mov­ ing back to the ratrace. Rats get to like racing, see? O f course the problem o f lack o f mental stimu­ lus could be overcom e by having a commune. This also gets over the problem o f shortage o f manpower and skills. But who knows a com ­ mune that has worked? And I dont mean for six months.

Did I say esthetic? Well maybe this is an exaggeration. An ap­ preciation o f the beauty o f Nature requires an appropriate response. I mean if you are going to live with Nature why build the shabbiest and most garish o f manmade structures?

Yes, those dome homes are cheap and horrible. But look at any back-to-Nature setup.

Honestly, did you ever see any­ thing more like the town dump?

And isn’t it funny how these wire, string and galvanised iron vir­ tuosos always want to get them­ selves a piece o f "u n tou ched” bush to start up their ramshackle enterprises? It seems to me that anyone with a genuine feeling for Nature would appreciate how lit­ tle and how precious is the rem­ nant o f untouched bushland in Australia, and keep their shanties out o f it.

O f course it is hard to get cheap land, and rundown prop­ erties or bush seem to be the only possibilities for people who can’t or w on ’t save enough for an es­ tablished farm. So when you buy your bargain block o f bush and the neighbors say “ they’re mad” remember that what they really mean is, “ Here com es a bad case o f having to learn by experience” .

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There is probably no such thing as a cheap farm.

Suppose you buy bush. By the time y o u ’ve spent months clear­ ing, months scrounging, building shelters and fencing, you will find you have not produced much that you can eat or sell. Instead o f a decent sized cash outlay you have spent your precious time (which is worth several dollars a day to you on the labor market) and you are still having to spend on essential equipment and fo o d . A higher initial payment could be cheaper in the long run AND make you self-sufficient sooner.

Another thing: why d o you think the place is in bush? The best land was cleared years ago (together with a lot that should never have been cleared). Instead o f chopping dow n m ore trees, how about you ecofreaks restor­ ing Nature on, say, a rundown property which is livable and useable but needs some loving care?

Naturally, you w on ’t want to spend m oney on a highly develop­ ed property full o f stock and improvements you d on ’t really need. What should you look for then? It is worth considering that some rather decrepit farms are not ecologically damaged. That is, the soils and vegetation may be in good condition. The farmer may have quit because o f bad eco­ nomic conditions, not bad hus­ bandry.

But how are you going to d o what he failed to do? Yes, y o u ’re going to live simply. Econom ics dont bother you. Well, how about rates and freight charges?

Somehow, sometime, you are g o ­ ing to have to draw up a balance sheet, so it will pay to start some calculations before you buy.

So before you start drawing the plans for your “ hogan” or whatever, think carefully about the type o f country you want to live in, its climate, soils, distance from rail, schools and hospitals.

How will you get your produce to market? What are the local prob­ lems. Is the district overrun with ra b b its, blackberry, skeleton weed, Indian hemp . . . you could be in trouble. Be suspicious. Is it really cheap? Doesn’t anyone else want it? Why? Why did the last owner leave? How d o nearby properties compare in price? Talk to the locals. See the department o f agriculture. They can save you much time, m oney and disap­ pointment.

Best o f all, work on a property for long enough to find ou t if the life suits you, before you sink your hard earned cash. See you in ten years time . . .

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-Notices Queensland. A ll replies answered.

W rite INC b o x 6 00 8 .

M elbourne. Male, 33, agreeable sense o f hu m or, m arried, seeks fulfilling d aytim e relation s w ith warm fem ale. D iscretion assured.

INC b o x 6 0 0 9 .

B risbane-N orth coa st. H andsom e you n g m an, 25, seeks sim ilar fo r d iscreet dalliance, friendship. A ll interests, surfing, e xp lo rin g etc.

INC b o x 6 0 1 0 .

S y d n ey . G o o d lo o k in g , 3 0 year old , seeks same ty p e gu y w h o is lon ely. S o m e o n e to ring u p at 4 am. INC b o x 6 0 1 1 .

A delaide. G u y, 22, seeks discreet, u n p reju diced dalliance and friend­ ship w ith fem m e, 18-35. M y place or yours. N o ties. D iscretion as­ sured. A ll replies answered. INC b o x 6 012.

M elbourne. G u y, 21, wishes dal­ liance w ith y o u n g , active, spu nky guys, 1 8-2 5 , fo r m utual pleasure.

Phon e appreciated. C on ta ct INC b o x 6 01 3 .

M elbourn e.

F em ale, attractive, creative, loves life, freed om , sex, seeks acquaintan ce o f m ature, un­ attached male t o 45. INC b o x 6003.

S yd n ey -N orth Shore. P rofessional gent, 52, married, desires d iscreet dalliance w ith slim, passionate fem m e. U tm ost discretion assuiv ed. INC b o x 6 01 4 .

M elbourne. W om a n , 45, strong sexual urges, e n jo y s b o o k s (eg.

Fow les),* films (B unuei, G od a rd ), theatre (W illiam son, H ibb erd ), w o u ld like t o m eet man similar feelings and interests. N o outings i f y o u require d iscretion . INC b o x 6004.

S yd n ey . G u y , 2 3, wants same fo r relationship and fun tim es. N o effem inates. G enuine. S end p hon e num ber. D iscretion assured. INC b o x 6015.

M elb ou rn e. W ould any you n ger g u y(s) w h o read Ginsberg’ s in ter­ view and k n o w a yo u n g e r/o ld e r relationship can be as b eau tifu l as he says, like w eeken ds away w ith presentable bi, m id-40s. P h oto ap­ preciated. A ll answered. INC b o x 6005.

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M elbourn e. Male, 48, tall, present­ able, un attached , transferred fro m S y d n e y , interested N ation R eview to p ics, seeks d ialogue w ith en­ lightened Ms. INC b o x 6 0 2 3 .

S y d n e y .-E a ste m suburbs. G en tle gu y w ants sensitive, intelligent girl w h o is generally anti social, loves earth, sun, sw im m ing, interested in y o g a , m u sic, lo v e , reading, friendship. M ust b e g o o d c o m ­ p a n ion and d isinclined tow ards hassles, m aterial things. P urpose: m u tu a l th era p y. IN C b o x 6 0 2 4 .

A d ela id e. Tall, beardless, inexperi­ en ce d , lo n e ly gu y, , seeks simi­ lar m asculine gu y t o sam e age fo r d iscreet, loving friendship, h op e­ fu lly lasting. L ik es bushw alking, m usic. P h o to n o t necessary b u t a ppreciated. IN C b o x 6 0 2 5 .

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M elbourn e. C o u p le , late 30s, in­ terested in adding variety t o otherw ise g o o d sex life, like to m eet co u p le s in sim ilar p osition .

H e m ust b e v a sectom ised . B o th m ust b e 'w e ll ed ucated and d is­ creet. P h o to s please. IN C b o x 6 02 6 .

S ydney.

U ninhibited, m iddle aged, m arried co u p le , returning a fter three years overseas, wish to m e e t others t o e n jo y w ining, din­ ing and dalliance. A ll replies answered. IN C b o x 6 0 2 7 .

M elbourn e. A sian m ale, early 30s, graduate, travelled, seeks warm, intelligent fem ale. Interests: films, p olitics. Perm anent i f agreeable.

IN C b o x 6 02 8 .

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nesian b o m , m ulti-talen ted paint­ er, p h otograp h er, w riter, trained Javanese, Balinese d a n ce m usic, arts, easy goin g, seeks even tem ­ pered m ale friend. P refer artist, n o e ffem in ate heads o r Bazzas.

L ove sim ple things o f life , sincer­ ity , real w arm th. IN C b o x 6 0 2 9 .

H obart. Male wants t o m e e t versa­ tile ca m p gu y, 1 7 -3 0 . Please send letter and p h o t o i f available. A ll answered. INC b o x 6 0 3 0 .

M elbourn e. Q u iet, p rofession a l m an, 35, seeks intelligent fem ale fo r o cca s io n a l dalliance. Casual relation ship o n ly w a n ted . INC b o x 6031.

A delaide. G u y , 30, bi-sex, crap­ p ed o f f w ith p se u d o guys, seeks virile b lo k e w ith g o o d b ed talents and a ppreciates the o th e r gu y’ s p oin ts o f view , aged b etw een 2 0-3 5 . O w n p lace. INC b o x 6 03 2 .

M elbourn e. Male, 29, tall, fair, e xecu tive, intelligent, interested in p e o p le , m usic, art, m ovies, travel, w ining, dining, o w n flat, car, single, seeks sincere fem m e, similar interests f o r co m p a n io n ­ ship. INC b o x 6 0 3 3 .

M elbourn e.

L o n e ly C inderella w a n ted t o a cco m p a n y h a n d som e prince, 19, t o fo rth co m in g M onash balL G reat tim e assured. INC b o x 6034.

M elbourne. A fte r t o o lon g an abstinence, wishing t o be re-en ter­ ed b a ck in to the w o rld . L ovin g b o y gu ide required. S o m e o n e w h o has seen b e tw e e n 16 and 2 0 sum ­ mers. I dream o f the b o y w h o w ill give m e life. I am a brigh t b u t gentle student, 2 1, and m ale. INC b o x 6 03 5 .

M elbourn e. Married gu y, 3 0, atr tractive, d iscreet, frustrated, ow n car, seeks fe m m e to 5 0 w h o w o u ld e n jo y F ren ch massage. N o r e c ip r o c a t io n necessary.

Am m ature, refin ed and w ill satisfy.

Please help, am desperate. INC b o x 6036.

N S W -D u b b o -C o n d o b o lin -T ru n d le Parkes areas.

D iscreet fem ale h o m o se x u a l brun ette, 40s, o w n car, wishes t o m eet sam e (o r y ou n g er) fo r outings, friendship.

G e n tle , a ffe ctio n a te , sincere, b rig h t A ll replies answered. Fees refu nded. INC b o x 6 0 3 7 .

B risbane-N orth coast. C am p m ale, e ducated, genuine, seeks attrac­ tive, active co m p a n io n to 35 fo r sincere friendship, outings, etc.

A ll replies answered. IN C b o x 6 038.

Canberra. W om an, 35, on e child, seeks co m p a n io n a te marriage. Sex n o t essential. N o o b je c tio n gay.

INC b o x 6 0 3 9 .

M elbourn e. C o u n try , p rofession a l m ale, m id 40s, seeks fem ale, 3 5-40, fo r m utually satisfying re­ lationship. IN C b o x 6 0 4 0 .

S y d n e y . Male, late 40s, virile, financially secure, separated. In­ telligent p ro lifer, big b u t kind, sexy b u t sensitive, seeks fem ale co u n te rp a rt (ch ild re n O K ), fo r e m o tio n a l security and m ore life.

IN C b o x 6 0 4 1 .

S yd n ey . Y o u n g m an, 3 1, attrac­ tive, warm , fo n d o f the arts, seeks sincere male f o r lasting relation­ ship. N ew Australians w e lco m e .

INC b o x 6 0 4 2 .

S yd n ey . Fem ale, 2 2, m od estly versatile and insane, w o u ld like t o co rre sp o n d w ith a very spu nky m ale. N o straights. INC b o x 6 0 4 3 .

S y d n e y . A ctiv e, attractive, you n g gay gu y o ffe r e d live-in p o s itio n on p rop erty 5 0 m iles fr o m S yd n ey .

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s om e real values in living. Y o u ’ D n o t m ake a fortun e, b u t the fo o d and w ine are g re a t I’ m a you n g person m yself w h o seems t o have su ccessfu lly “ d ro p p e d o u t” . Legit replies. INC b o x 6 04 4 .

S y d n e y . V irile b o d y builder, 28, desires sim ilar physicaUy fit guy, u n d er 35, f o r uninhibited friend­ ship, n o effem in ates. O w n pad.

INC b o x 5 97 7 .

M elbourn e. A ttractive redhead, 28, o w n private prem ises wiU d ally m y p lace b y ap p oin tm en t.

P refer m arried business typ es. “ C a ro le ” , IN C b o x 5 8 3 6 .

M elb ou rn e. Clean cu t, slim , male university stu den t, 2 2 , w o u ld Dke t o m eet sam e, o n ly HSC or you n g er f o r friendship, love and dalliance. INC b o x 5 9 3 4 .

Brisbane. F em m e, 2 0 -3 5 , as a crew co m p a n io n living o n 4 5 ’ trawler travelling east coast. Share p rofit, m ust be fo n d o f sea life.

INC b o x 5 87 2 .

Deployment W riter requires a patron. A n y o n e interested in association w ith gen­ uine artist. W ill ou tlin e p ro je cts show samples o f w ork t o serious parties. I am n o t a m em ber o f Australia’ s literary mafia. INC b o x 6 00 2 .

S y d n e y . G entle, inteUigent (?) student co u ld use w ork as a maths ( o r anything else) coa ch , after H .S.C. P hone R o b e rt 9 3 .3 5 0 7 .

M elbourn e. Part tim e weekend w o r k available vicin ity L atrobe U niversity, suit m asculine cam p stu den t, live in if desirous. Inquire n o w , give details. W ork — house renovating.

Salary co m m e n ce ­ m en t negotiable. INC b o x 5989.

A delaide. Pyram ids collapse our business b o o m s , con su m er lines, repeat business, parttim e co st: $ 2 5 .0 0 and y o u r tim e rew ard: up to $ 1 0 0 0 per m o n th in 12 m onths. D ial (0 8 )3 3 7 .2 1 6 6 after tea (6 -8 ).

Doings Pat B erzin, AustraDa Party candi­ date f o r N o rth co tt needs assist­ ance. H elp n eeded f o r leafletting, le tte rb o x in g and o n p ollin g day.

M on ey also needed.

S yd n ey 8 7 1 .7 8 2 1 .

S y d n e y . E n cou n ter group w eek ­ end in co u n try o n last evening o f N ovem b er and first tw o days o f D e ce m b e r. Schutz m e th od s. Call G o rd o n Meggs on 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r write P.O. B o x 2 2 9 , C oo ge e 2034.

S y d n e y , G lenfield Farm creative leisure centre, running full tim e Christm as hokdays, children aU ages. H elp us b y sharing y o u r skills, crafts, playfulness, equip­ m ent. at least on ce, p hone 6 0 2 .8 0 9 5 .

Australia Party Tuesday club, ex­ p o licem a n M ervyn R u th erford “ P olice A dm inistration” Nov. 13, Y e O lde Crusty T avem e, S ydney.

L u n ch (d rinks) $ 3 .5 0 . A nn Phelou n g 4 0 7 .3 2 8 1 .

C o o rd in a tio n C oop erative Ltd. is b u yin g 1 0 0 0 acres at N im bin, to be the h om e o f a co m m u n ity w hose central design principles are creative living and e co lo g ica l survivaL Send SAE fo r details $ 2 0 0 shares t o 76 Darling Street, Balm ain, 2 0 4 1 , o r p h on e S yd n ey 8 2 .1 2 9 1 , M elbourn e 5 1 .8 2 1 4 .

Pat Berzin, AustraDa Party candi­ date at Pennant Hills co m m u n ity centre, 8 pm , W ednesday, N ovem ­ b er 7 th. Details ring S ydney 8 7 1 .7 8 2 1 .

T h e north western distributor af­ fects y o u . S to p the expressway

m adness. P ublic m eeting N ational Street, R o ze lle . Saturday, N ovem ­ ber 10, at 10 am. S yd n ey 8 2 7 .2 3 9 8 .

S W IN G E R S IN T E R N A T IO N A L (R e g . 1 9 7 1 ). F o r adults seeking d iscreet sw inger co n ta ct. M em bers in P ort M oresb y, Brisbane, S yd ­ ney, Canberra, M elb ou rn e, H o ­ bart, A d elaid e, Perth, D arw in, al­ s o oth er cities, to w n s and co u n try areas. Phon e o r write f o r obHgation free b roch u re in plain en­ velop e. Ph Bus Hrs (0 2 ) 2 5 .1 5 3 2 o r write b o x 4 9 8 4 GPO, S y d n e y , NSW 2 0 0 1 . C o n tro l o ffic e , 4 th flo o r 136 Pitt S treet, S yd n ey .

State if CO U PLE , F E M A L E o r M A L E . D IS C R E T IO N G U A R A N ­ TE ED . N B : T h e o n ly authorised address.

AustraDa Party new b ranch in GelDbrand co n ta ct Kal Liiri 3 1 4 .5 5 4 8 Melb. after hours.

S yd n ey . W anted: E m o tio n a l risktaking p e o p le fo r o p en e n c o u n te r group w eeken ds in co u n try , S chultz m ethods. S e co n d w eek­ end ea ch m onth. Call G o r d o n Meggs o n 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r write P.O. B ox 2 2 9 , C oogee, 2034.

Distress

S y d n e y . G o r d o n Meggs, social w orker, o ffe rs help t o those in distress. Call 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r write PO b o x 2 2 9 , C o o g e e , NSW 2 0 3 4 .

A to m ic p o w e r and uranium en­ rich m en t plants m ean perm anent radioactive p o llu t io n ; read A to m ic P ow er Plant R e vie w s N o . 2 fro m Bertrand R ussell Peace F ou n d a ­ tion, PO b o x 196 , B roa d w a y, Q ueensland 4 00 0 .

Departures Girl, 20, w o u ld like lift t o Perth 26th, 2 7th D ecem b er. W illing t o . share expenses.

R in g C in d y, 3 6 .2 1 4 8 M elbourn e, 6 -1 0 pm , m ond ay t o thursday.

Dwellings S yd ney. H ouse w ith five q u iet green acres needs third person. $ 1 5 .0 0 . “ W orrall” , Gum nut R oad , W est Pennant Hills. R in g Jennie, 8 8 .0 2 2 1 (B H ).

S yd n ey-K en sin gton . T w o ch ick s “ heading” north want s o m e o n e (s ) to replace us in h a p p y, heady h ou sehold . G o o d vibes at $ 1 1 .2 5 .

B uzz 6 6 3 .1 4 7 8 .

M elbourn e-N orth F itzro y . Male o r fem ale t o share large hou se, gar­ den, w ith three m ales, one fem ale.

O w n room . $ 1 1 .2 5 . M elb ou rn e 4 8 9 .2 4 1 3 (A H ).

S yd n ey . A ttractive m ix e d G leb e terrace has space f o r h appy bird.

O w n tiny ro o m and equal rights in rest o f house. Suit stu den t o r nurse. Ring S y d n e y 6 6 0 .7 6 5 2 .

M elbourne. Ms, m id 30s, w a n ted to share co m fo rta b le house A rm a ­ dale area. $ 2 5 .0 0 . S p o u se o r ch ild acceptable. 2 6 7 .3 2 7 4 .

A delaide. Spare r o o m in hou se near university f o r person in 20s, m ixed hou seh old . N ear transport. $ 9 .0 0 . Phone 2 9 7 .4 1 3 6 o r call at 48 First A venue, Forestville.

M elbourne-East St Kilda. A r o o m is vacant. A n y o n e wilDng t o share their feelings and responsibilities w ith us is w e lco m e . $ 1 1 .0 0 per w eek includes gas, electricity, p hon e. Phone 5 2 .2 8 5 6 .

Dialing T he Learning E xchange, A rm a­ dale, V icto ria , has m o v e d t o 4 3 0 W averley R oad , East Malvern.

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Taking a little knowledge T H A N K S fo r your g o o d remarks on Divine Light M ission. But please d o n t g o o n a b o u t suitcases o f jewels, gold teeth e t a P eople still believe y o u if y o u tell them things like th a t A n d also, there is n o catatonia o r in d ifferen ce likely here, brother, though I can understand y ou r fears.

C heck o u t D ivine U nited Organisation, being launched in less than a m on th at M illennium '7 3 in H ou ston , Texas. It w ill coord in a te the thousands and thousands n o w w orking really hard around the w o rld t o bring p eace to this planet. There are travel services, bulk fo o d , printing, clothing, film ing, con­ struction, biod egra da ble products, and lots o f other trips g oing. A n d n o o n e is making m o n e y o u t o f it, n ot even Guru Maharaj Ji. A fter all the gurus fo llo w e d b y our b e lov ed , n eb u lou s cou n ter culture, it ’s so g o o d t o have a perm anent one. I mean the oth ers w ere really g o o d , but Maharaj Ji has that special something, that special kn ow ledge w h ich tunes o n e in o h so blissfully . . . quite ex­ quisite. So g o o d to b e going up. Y ou can rationalise a thousand reasons to d o w ith crutches and security blankets o f an unarguable p h ilosop h y, a big organisation, and such things. B ut real­ ly th e k n ow led g e just gives y o u that far o u t, active, loving, w arm , K elloggs Corn Flakes feeling 2 4 hours a day. T hat’s w h y D ivine Light M ission is such a g o o d investm ent.

Y o u ju st w atch to see if Maharaj Ji and his m en end in “ an egocentric in d ifferen ce to everyday reality, an absolute a b a n d o n in g -o f responsibility t o anything ou tsid e o n e ’ s o w n precious self” . Just w atch !

W hen D L M is exam ined, and the horror o f the ego at d e v o tio n t o this 15 year o ld is o v e rco m e , satisfaction usually ensues. T h e “ m atrix o f social realities” y o u spoke o f is recognised and catered fo r b y Maharaj Ji. A llow in g fo r th e absence o f certain

overly indulgent distractions w h ich w e o n ce dug, I think that Guru Maharaj Ji is the ep itom e o f all the purest desires w e had fo r better individuals and a better w orld. I d o n t think this because I’m som e kind o f fanatic, or because m y consciousness-raising and social awareness have g o n e o f f at a sort o f strange Indian tangent. B ut becau se at the d ep th o f m y despair a b ou t w hat I and w e cou ld get together — “ the already fading o p tim ism o f a genera­ tio n ” (if I’ve g o t th e phrase right) w h ich R. N. spoke o f at the O Z trials — at the realisation that w e just w erent d oin g it, that it was o n ly ou r minds, w h en rem oved from the matrix o f social reality, that, briefly, w ere experi­ encing any sort o f U topia — at this alm ost num bing realisation, Guru Ma­ haraj Ji fo u n d me.

Isnt this w hat th e counter-culture has been w aiting fo r ? I think it is, t o a detail.

N o tice h o w there really isnt a cou n ­ ter-culture consciousness any m ore.

T he Alternative n o w com p rise the youn ger brothers and sisters o f t h e old gang (getting their organics together in the A delaide hills). T h e old gang’s m embers are working, w riting, dead,

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Casting the first germ IN M edieval E urop e there w ere no processed fo o d s, n o chem ical ferti­ lisers, n o pills o r injections. E verything was pure and organic, including the plague germ s w h ich killed 7 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 p eop le in a b ou t fo u r years. W hile the rich on es w ere escaping to their tow ers o n the R hine o r their rem ote G reek islands, w here they cou ld drink their a lc o h o l, eat their p sy lo cib in m ush­ r o o m s, and slurp w in e-soften ed pearls out of lead goblets, th e sim ple peasants, the Na Cl o f the earth, w ere d yin g like flies.

In the 18th century, 6 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 E uropeans died o f sm allpox. S m allpox kills very fe w tod a y . M aybe the v accin e (a d o se o f c o w p o x ) w orks. It’ s better to run the infinitesim al risk o f dyin g from the v accin e than have a m uch higher ch an ce o f d yin g in the event o f an epidem ic. . T h e num ber o f “ w on d er drugs” o n the m arket is going up. T h e average life span is going up. Is this because m ore p eop le than ever are fo llo w in g nature’ s rules? B ecause less p eo p le are eating un spoilt f o o d than in 1 9 00?

I agree w ith parts o f the article; that drug com p an ies put m on ey b e fo re p eo­ ple, that t o o m any p eo p le are com ­ pulsive pill-takers. But that “ forg et a b ou t the germ s” stu ff is crap.

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con v en ien tly ignored the wishes and needs o f the m ajority o f the PapuaN ew G uinea p opu lation .

Having recen tly returned after a term in Papua-New Guinea as a “ ruth­ less, brutal, e t c .” kiap (pidgin term fo r Patrol O ffice r), during w h ich I did a great deal o f travel b y f o o t and n on e w hatsoever b y sports car, I w o u ld b e the first to agree that adm inistrative errors a-plen ty have b een made and that a system m ore orien ted tow ards traditional values is required.

H ow ever, b e fo re a society can b e changed it m ust first exist in a viable fo r m and the creation o f a Papua-New G uinea so cie ty is still in the balance.

A s an artificial and fragile colon ial creation Papua-New G uinea is un likely to survive as a going con cern unless the various secessionist group s are willing t o fo rg e t their ‘I ’m all right, Ja ck ’ am bitions. In a society in w h ich educa­ tion is a ccord ed an alm ost m ystical significance, the o p in io n s and ideas o f the educated you n g are given far m ore cred en ce than w o u ld norm ally b e the case in a m ore sophisticated situation.

I f these y ou n g fortu n a tes actually assist in th e creation o f a h om og en eou s society in Papua-N ew Guinea then its survival as a fu n ction a l unit is possible; if not, then th e selfish and secessionist tendencies exh ibited by H annet, Kasaiwapalova and com p a n y (w h ich d idn t include Joseph in e Hayah fo r som e strange reason) as lauded b y the author w ill alm ost certain ly result in p olitical ch aos in an ind ep end ent state.

If the N ight o f the L on g Knives, w h ich creates such lip-sm acking ardor in Mr S tock s, ever eventuates then the ultim ate losers w ill n o t b e the few hapless w h ites ex ecu ted b u t th e p eop le o f Papua-New G uinea as a w h ole.

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far] ou t o f 7 kids), so here's o n e th eory d o w n you r g u m b o o t, m ate.

M aybe y o u just d o n t m ix w ith the right crow d. I must b e hon est and say I d on t care m uch fo r oth er p e o p le ’s kids — n o t so m uch th e kids them selves, as the big nuclear fa m ily bit. It must be hell d ow n there w ith no separate iden­ tity fo r each individual. T his is very m uch a learned tech n iqu e — t o estab­ lish separateness w ithin th e g rou p — bu t try to encourage oth er g rou p s in this, and y o u fa ce an uphill battle.

Again, n o t so m uch w ith the kids, b u t the parents, w h o w ant t o see som e­ thing fo r their tim e and m o n e y — this means love and d ependence.

Y our hypothesis is correct in the cosm ic purpose o f kids. D espite this, the birthrate races m adly upwards.

Seems y o u ’ll have to go through it, Harry, like pim ples and wet-dream s, tram polining and tripping — it’s all part o f a big process.

M aybe y o u should happen along here som etim e, t o m y human group, and w e w ou ld reassure y o u — that here it ’s b o w s and arrows, n o t araldite.

Y ours in sincerity, BETH, S yd n ey, NSW

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Mystic- Marxism H thank y o u ! R arely d o e s any publication send m y spirits soar­ ing as TLD did on Tuesday.

I was desperately trying t o recover fro m regurgitating all I k n o w ab ou t Yeats and the “ correctn ess” o f lan­ guage form s, and the little exchange b etw een R uth G regory, Grant Evans, Syd S helton and Richard w h at’ s-hisnam e did a lo t fo r m y m ind. B ut I felt that a fe w things w ere le ft unsaid.

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wish that someone would explain to me what marxism means, or admit, as I suspect, that it doesnt mean a bloody thing. I really don’t see how one can base one’s outlook on life on one man’s treatment of some specific problems.

Similarly with fascism, communism, mysticism, feminism: all meaningless bullshit. How about talking about spec­ ific concepts and people instead of existing “isms”.

And I think that RG, G E and SS’s total rejection of mysticism results from an inaccurate conception of what’s going on. Certainly organised mysticism, headed by some smartarse who claims to have all the clues, egotrippers like Guru Maharaj Ji telling me how to run my life, is of no real use to anyone. Unless they’re looking for an easy way out But . . . this morning I watched the sun rise. Talk to me about marxism or rationalism then and I’d kick your teeth in (figuratively speaking).

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