reader hates to plow through him because they've no ready-made prejudice to begin with: God, they'll have to judge what he says all by themselves! Perhaps ONE's jubal troop of anonymous writers is good training for the public but perhaps that stubborn old public doesn't want to be trained. Perhaps they want articles by well-known names and perhaps those well-known writers would rather drop dead than appear in ONE without eight layers of masks. Or with them. So who's going to believe findings of mysterious researchers who sign their articles with initials only? Who likes just any old statistic thrown his way like a bone in the dark? Perhaps it's character enriching to have to gnaw a while to see if it is a bone but few people read magazines with enrichment in mind. If you speak authoritatively, the readers have a right to know the authority. And you don't dare give it. For a long, long time you won't dare give it and in the stretched meantime you hope to heaven the reader won't get bored with these impressive voices of wisdom thundering out of the darkness. Remember even an oracle can get monotonous.

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FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF MY CONTENTS

Beside research, what's there to print? Don't say, "Oh, lots!" until

you whip through the possible purposes of the magazine: enlightenment, entertainment or enrichment. The first is out of the question. The second and third are absurd. Take fiction, for instance. It's a magazine on deviation, so there are two possibilities: a story about homosexuals or by them. If it's printed merely because it's by one, then nothing in the whole pamphlet need even mention homosexuality. This is like being asked to hear a string trio not for the music but because all three are plumbers by vocation. Sorry, we came for the music; their jobs by day can just go down the drain as irrelevant. Then, say the fiction is solely concerned with deviation as subject matter. This is an odd order without parallel in any art. We are asked to read stories, humor, poetry and opinion based only on the sexual leaning of a single type! Incredible! The only other publication with such strange limitations are the lewd girlie books which print only photos of girls undressing. But grant the monomania and what have we? Romances, tragedies and comedies, as in any other literature, but with the vital difference that sex must always enter into the picture. Otherwise it won't be homosexual. If we published the story of a girl who risked her life to warn the town that a dam had burst, it wouldn't belong in ONE unless the author (ess) dragged in the superbly irrelevant fact that she was off hiking with another girl and was sexually attracted by or occupied with her when she discovered the tired dam! My God. Then, to avoid the appearance of dragging in sex by the heels, we must do the obvious and deal solely with sex. There is no need for bursting dams in sex romances. All we

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