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August 22, 2003
APPOINTED ROUNDS
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor gloom of night
shall keep the postman from his appointed rounds? Well, we hope so. But what
about choice reading matter?
Your piece about The Realist brought me back to thesummer of 1963 when I was a 19-year-old college student delivering the U.S. mail in Forest Hills, N.Y. One of the mail carriers had a Realist subscriber on his route and that copy of the magazine invariably wound up in the men's room, where all the Post Office employees read it to ribbons before it was returned to the routeman and delivered a few days late. No mail was ever lost, only delayed, to the intellectual nourishment of the nation's postal employees.
-- Peter "Hurricane" Carroll
It's reassuring to know that Paul Krassner's subversive literary enthusiasms infected at least
some federal employees. I feel certain that America's prototypical if
contradictory subversive, Thomas Jefferson, would have approved.
Posted by at August 22, 2003 09:00 AM