Now, now Dr. West. How you do run on! Notice certain key phases of his: "abnormal inhibition"; "relations with the opposite sex"; "deviant habits"; "normal development"; "full stature"; "half-way adjustment"; "attachment to mother"; "guilt and shame"; "simply immature."

Obviously, to Dr. West, relations with the opposite sex are normal, all human development inevitably striving to attain this pinnacle of achievement. If this be true, then of course all else falls short of "full stature. normal development," and, "is a half-way status . . . simply immature." Naturally.

Cannot a single one of these dear, studious people imagine, just for the sake of hypothesis, that possibly there is nothing whatever normal about "relations with the opposite sex? That this unhappy practice has mainly succeeded in populating the streets and highways with throngs of miserable entities, plagued by problems and delinquencies, unwanted by anyone even by themselves? Cannot they for a moment suspend their blind stumblings through the mazes and, like their own white rats, try something new?

In vain one asks: From what tablets of stone, what Siniatic summit have been handed down to us these Commandments of Heterosexual Union? Are they indeed divinely ordained by the Very Most High of Biology? Or are we finding ourselves formerly whip-lashed by organized Religion and today, instead, by organized Science?

Suppose (shocking thought!) that some scientist might one day sit down before himself and say (somewhat like Descartes), I find in the universe myself. I also find others, both men and women. Some of these are given in marriage. Some are not. These facts, and their effects I shall faithfully report. Never may I indulge the slightest side glance at entelechy, on pain of instant scientific expulsion.

How refreshing this might be! But shall we ever see this happen? We wonder, but remain, as ever, hopeful . . .

WE WALK ALONE...

Gold Medal Books, Fawcett

Robert Gregory

...Ann Aldrich

I have read Ann Aldrich's book, We Walk Alone (Through Lesbos' Lonely Groves)... (oh, the pity and waste of it all, sob!!) . . . twice now, and the best I can say is, "Well, it was interesting, it did have some good points."

Actually, the woman defeats me. I do not wish to destroy for anyone such value as this confused book may have . . . but I wonder just how much value the book really does have and what good it will do for us in the eyes of the heterosexuals?

I can but pity Ann Aldrich if she really is a lesbian and has such an attitude toward her own homosexuality as the damning one she expresses in the book. She pleads for understanding of us... yet paints such a picture as to leave only room for pity and/or scorn in the minds of heterosexuals.

She is indeed a "reporter" . . . with a good eye. I have no quarrel with her picturing the worst and most demented of us. These exist; but, in a book of this type, purportedly written by "one of our own," we have

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