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Show Anting Alone Page 245 the Coming in a wonderfully written, handsomely italicized editorial preface, addressed, as though it were a letter, to the "vanished young author of this remarkable (italics Sam's) piece of writing"! Oh, god, yes! What a touching expression of the intimate relationship Dr. A. enjoys with the readers of his wonderful little journal! See how he feels perfectly free to use these bought- and paid-for pages to speak so personally to his young, newly discovered, newly lost author! See how gracefully Dr. A. apologizes for not knowing where to send the traditional payment of two free copies! Hear how eloquently he explains why, "even with certain serious reservations (why, for example, lionize a fascist?)," he has made the courageous, valliant editorial decision to accept this "seemingly pro-Nazi" piece of writing! In his sage editorial preface Dr. Abraham displays the fiery-chariot grace of Elijah, the absolute, unshakable walk-with-God integrity of Enoch, to accept the work of an unknown, heretofore unpublished author! Dr. A. has taken the piece in spite of its apparently twisted politics for the sake of the pure manic energy of its language! - though some jealous TA's in the grad school will probably say that this fine old patriarch, Sam's departmental redeemer who once plucked Sam from the ravenous jaws of his pud committee, is publishing the piece out of pity for an unfortunate youngster whose professional career is crumbling right before everybody's eyes. Publish the boy, don't let him perish! Call him back from whatever non-academic inferno he has plunged himself into! Where is Edwine? Where for Christ's sake could our remarkable young author be? Why hasn't he shown up to teach his freshman for so long? Is he living? Is he dead? Is he languishing in a hot US Army-issue trailer |
