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Letter: January 16, 1963

Letter: January 16, 1963
Letter: January 16, 1963

Wed. Morning

                                                            1/16/63

 

Tamara—

            I got gout in the guts, get the gate to grate they fake don’t wait. Eh?  [The rest of the paragraph is written intentionally in glossolalia].  Lizperwhocken splunt gaswizzle.  Alsotinas franklegisten? Stchoochielacken.

            In other words, gankle slutzen menkle frubelsenwhopper, siddenalia uph?  Deksthadt, magonaharken bertsfedten knucken bung danglen jong!

Praise the Lord.

Ah saih!

 

                        Woman,

Did you see?

                        Did you see?

Did you see?

                        Did you see

Did you see?

                        Woman, Lawd, did you see?

Ah know Ah’m raht,

                        Cuz the lawd’s on [?] side!

Jowz! Whop! Whooee! Lawd God Jehovah!

Whapsell frunken shelitstich piangel

whunt knent, twat not?

            Kiss this miss,ter,

Bumbat

Turncoat.

Screw the men and castrate the women

Arthur Godfrey[1]

by Godfrey.

 

burn up your brains and open your mouth

get that religion

worship Christ

get rid of  your sin

cut off your sex.

Isn’t it wonderful what psychoanalysis can do?

            Look what it did for me.

            Well, onward.

                                    ——>

holy mark’le. Dear, Andy.

            I love Amos ’n’ Andy[2]. Used to watch it every day.

            Won’t come in no more.

 

            End of this letter.

 

                        Love,

                        Lester Conway Bangs

 

                        Found of the “Bomb the Ban” club[3]

                        Author of “I was a teenage adolescent” (OF with Dig magazine, in a perceptive review, said, “Unbelievable.”)

                        The editor of “The Complete World Wide Guide to Nearby Comform-Stations,” and publisher of such distinguished magazines as “Reader’s Disgusted,” “Saturday Evening Pest,” and the “Homosexual’s Monthly.”

 

[1] Godfrey, Arthur Morton. b. 1903. American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer

[2] Amos ’n’ Andy: American radio sitcom set in Harlem’s African-American community, later adapted for television; written and performed for radio by white actors Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, and, for television, by a cast of African-American actors.

[3] a parody of “Ban the Bomb,” the slogan of the 1960s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), which originated the now iconic peace symbol.

 

 

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