Basically, the technology of today seeks to replace, by a system of Humanistic Values, the older, Insect Values of social systems, i.e., the values of the Ant and the Cicada. But surely I digress....

I. RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

My psychiatrist and I were posed in the Couch-Chair-Say-The-First-Thing Motif. He was bent over his pad like a dead Hebraic scholar, but his mind and pen were spring and steel, ready to snap.

"Cheese!" he snapped. Pen poised...

"Arm!" I shot back.

"Arm!"

"Richard Brautigan!"

"Richard Brautigan!"

"Foot!"

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The first thing that strikes me about Richard Brautigan is foot Last month I read a book by him that was entiled A Confedereate General from Big Sur. This book has lots of good metaphors and similes in it. It is also quite funny, too. In one chapter, he even writes about this alligator who eats porkchops. I thought that was really amusing. The next book is called Trout Fishing in America. Isn't that a funny title for a book, especially since he even doesn'T write about trout fishing per se. signed,   Stevie W. Stahler

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Let another, far worthier than I, express what lies in this feeble soul. Let the Poet sing:

To read Richard Brautigan is audacity itself,

To interpret him, sheer heresy,