LAIT: But you had another total flip-out experience with another magazine about 10 years later, right? In its time, it was all that guys like us had, and. LYNCH: But we gotta explain its appeal to us at the time to the comix fans who are reading this interview. The New York based Zat magazine has, since their inception a few years ago, been running installments of a previously unpublished screenplay by Zoe Tamerlis comporting materials from Pier Paolo Pasolini titled Curfew USA.
Anyway, in Curfew USA , the following snatch of dialogue appears between the two principal characters:. In the contract with myself. With the IT in me. And you say you love me. Love can only be between revolutionaries. Otherwise, Americans live love as a form of hatred where both partners desire each other. LAIT: Wait a minute.
You re losing me here. There must be purposes which stretch out beyond the individual couple into the great world outside and into the future, purposes, maybe, which can never be achieved but are always growing. LYNCH: So by , I had already read a great deal to prepare me for both the psychological and the physiological aspects of puberty.
LAIT: But originally there was nothing altruistic about your espousing this cause. Originally you sought out a cause because you thought that having an inflexible dedication to a cause would help your relationships with women? My cause is part of my superego now. Who knows, though. It might be a weird kick. Take my advice, Jackie. OK, so in you saw your first issue of The Realist. What then? Get maudlin! Never before had I seen on the printed page the things that heretofore I had thought to be the stuff that only I had thought.
It was a total shock to me to see that there was this enclave of people β writers and cartoonists within the pages of The Realist β who had the same thoughts as I did. Here was a magazine that pointed out, through satire, the hypocrisies in the society that nobody else dared even speak of, let alone print discussions of.
