09/02/2026 20:34

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I thought it was an interview. ” And no one has protested the violence. But when my mother got around to telling me my father had done time in prison, in some strangeand perverted way I started to realize I’d been searching for “Doc” Ellison almost all my life. The ones whohad had the most promise in school were now milkmen, used car salesmen, married to fat, stupid deadwomen who had, themselves, been girls of exceeding promise in high school.

She was touched. It is my feeling that one of the prime reasons for the artistic (and, it would seem, ratings) failureof The Starlost was the quality of the scripts. Today is nowhere nearly as important as all the yesterdays with my father. What had I stumbled upon: a key to the depravity of the young? Or the key to my ownyin and yang? I didn’t feel guilty, I felt unclean, which was infinitely worse.