You know, the literal view of the law is that
what's obscene is dirty screwing and fancy screwing. If a guy can tear off a
piece of ass with class, then he's cool; but if the author depicts factory
workers who are not experts with stag shows, then it's obscene, which is just
nonsense. Tract Home Chippy, for example, would be the
trite pulp book. Tract Home Chippy. The good book, they've accepted then, is D.
H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover. All right. Now, it's really absurd. You've
got two books. You've got Lady Chatterly's Lover, and we've got here, Tract
Home Chippy.
Now we got two couples in each book. D. H.
Lawrence's couple, they're not married, but he knows how to handle the scene.
Nothing patently offensive: there's silk sheets, lebesraum — I mean the guy
knows how to go about it.
Let's go to Tract Home Chippy. They're
factory workers. They're both virgins. I mean, page after page and this guy
doesn't know how to do anything. Never did it before. He's ripping the clothes,
conveying of semen before the penetration, didn't wear a contraceptive — it was
disgusting!
Let's go back to D. H. Lawrence. This guy can
really tear up a piece of ass — the third broad he's on already, mean this book
was really stimulating — you felt like going out, getting a broad...
That's what it is, it's absurd:
"So, in the opinion of this court, we
punish un-talented artists."

Cheers again.
ReplyDeleteMore great books.
Please keep 'em coming.
Wow, Nico, Brian Jones, AND best of all, our poor dear older brother Lenny!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, you astounding, generous man!
One of my teachers in high school loaned me Bertrand Russell's 'Why I Am Not A Christian' and 'The Essential Lenny Bruce.' Between the two, they blew my mind and changed my life. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteNice story Anon. As a teenager I would scour the charity shops for books & Russell's classic jumped off the shelf at me. 30p?? SOLD!! Like you say, a game changer at that age.
Deleteall the best,
Johnny
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ReplyDeleteAt 16 reading this greatly influenced me. The photo of him peering mournfully from behind bars captioned. "Americans love nonconformity and often reward it with the METAL of honor.", said it so well.
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