SEPTEMBER 1976

The concurrent attraction andrepulsion between intellectualism and banality is hardly the sole province of the Classic and Romantic Periods. The theme resurfaces in Hess's Der Steppenwolf, for instance, as "Harry" is helplessly attracted by the healthy tidiness of petty bourgeois society, but is subverted by aesthetic decadence in the "Theatre for Madmen Only." In his highly symbolic metaphysical experience, "Harry" searches for his lover whose sexual identity becomes mysteriously ambiguous.

Culture is both deductive and inductive to the extent that it both shapes and is shaped by its environment. The German aesthetic tradition is governed extensively by more or less uniform aesthetic imperatives over most of the lifetime of the Teutonic "Burgertum," transmitting its values, conventions and virtually every implication to those bourgeois systems which pattern themselves after it.

Our notion of "brain VS brawn," an illogical and unnecessary contradition impressed upon us by the prehistory of a grand socioeconomic pyramid, has been circulated throughout the Western world in conjunction with Gothic cathedrals, Wagnerian wailing and sauerkraut.

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Two peaks like living marble

seemed

rose up from out my troubled dream

and gathering carefully courage to explore

I advanced with caution and gentleness implored

to pause with reluctance before the forest door

'til parting branches I could see the beginning, at least, of the

mystery

and then my head began humming like with drink and my ears filled so hotly could not think

and I desired to go on and track her depths

and a siren's call bidding me so sprang

from her lips

and coming carefully and bending through the darkness of her spell T came to woodland well where the flow sprang silver from the center

of the earth

the edge of al

and the air hung heavy with possible birth

and I knelt with care upon the

brink

and lowered my mouth to take a drink

and got glad from the water's salty taste

and settled down to enjoy what would

otherwise waste

too soon the well washed over the plain

too soon the woods trembled in pleasured pain

but I stayed the night between those hills

that was my sleep and cure my ills.

--J. Sprague

JAMAICAN HOLIDAY

Lying raptly under the night's eye,

I wish to find solace in the stars And to uncover their permanent convictions.

listen to the waves slap upon the sand,

Notice the deserted chairs Littered upon the beach Like so many corpses Cast aside in their uselessness And wonder if that will happen to me.

I shout my questions to the sky, Receiving only a silent answerPerhaps a clue to my selfmockery.

I shall recline upon the canvas, Heap the warm ashes of evening Upon my luminous figure And float grimly onward Into the night.

By Van Ault

THE LOVELADY

From the vantage point of perfection-

The highest in sight and sound, Comes the Lovelady.

Unrestrained,

She soars magnificently free Upon unchartered waves of air Bearing her musical caress From the overflowing infinity within.

Extraordinary the Lovelady Compelling words & melodies to shape according to her vociferous command.

From the highest range of experience,

Comes the gift of the LoveladyEthereal, invigorating Love.

The Masquerade

This is dedicated to all the gays who are still in the closet.

He's twenty, gay, and in every respect a man.

He's troubled and lost between two different worlds.

Sleepless nights are spent thinking of the day he has to Ishow his true self.

He hides in his dark lonely closet, terrified to show his naked face.

He dreams of living free and being with his faceless lover.

Although he is proud for what he is, he's afraid of being revealed.

He's confused and terrified of the unknown.

He fears for what lies in store for

him.

He wonders how much longer he can live with this secret. He does not know nor do I, for you see I am this troubled young Bob

man.

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