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questionable purposes, Among the many TVs who have written to me there seems to have been 2 or 3 questionable charac- ters who are now in trouble with the law. My name came up in the course of the investigation and I was called in for an interview. I was delighted to find in the two inspectors I talked with a most sympathetic attitude towards our "pe- culiarity". I did my best to explain what we are and how we feel and how utterly opposed we are to those practices which can only perpetuate the social antagonism towards TVism. I feel the need here to beg all TVs to immediately report to their postal inspectors any violation of our postal laws. We have to weed out the undesirable element to keep our sorority clean as I'm sure every sincere TV wants. And for heaven's sake do not chicken out.....there is nothing to feel guilty about. Personally in all my correspondence with TVs I have never written one word which was not lady- like and I have always avoided entering into correspondence with anyone who has begun to send out feelers into muddy. paths. So be yourselves, be discreet and keep those přetty skirts clean.

One of my girl friends here in N.Y. (Gail) maintains that TVism is an aberration. (Somehow I hate that word. It brings to mind some thing twisted, perverse, unclean). And as a result we have engaged in many an argument over the nature of TVism. I insist that TVism is a natural form of personality expression although it is socially infrequent and here Peggie and I agree 100%) But I go one step further than that, I belive that we TVs are mutants. TVism is a mutation of the human race in its groping toward ultimate perfection. Let's go back briefly to ancient Greece. Here we find a great deal of thinking about perfection. Thoughts which found expression in mythology, You probably remember Hermes, the God with winged feet, who fell in love with Aphrodite (whom the Romans called Venus) and how she also loved him. From their union a child was born. a child who had to be perfect since it was the offspring of Gods, and what was the most perfect attribute this child could have? How could this child be above all mortals? It must be the best of both and was thus man and woman at the same

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