y eae ‘The Dixon exercise in maudlin admiration appeared in the Even- ing Wimp, and concerned a book of Persky’s called ““Buddy’s,’” published by the obscure left-wing publishing house ‘“‘New Star.”” : The title could more properly ’ have been dubbed “Confessions Of A Queer,’” but that would not _have been cozy enough. “‘Bud- ay y’s"? is. In describing his Cap College colleague’s glories, Dixon could not restrain himself. ‘‘This is a work about being gay in the same way that Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Seais a book about : being a fisherman,”’ he declared. Imagine! Stanley Q. and Hem hand in hand. Buddies in style. One gets the impression, in fact, that “‘Buddy’s”’ is right up there with the works of Shakespeare and Goethe. For Dixon says it ‘‘attains the ranks of those works that are immediately recognizable as genu- ine literature.”’ What more could your gaping reader demand? I do not plan to waste $19.95 to read about Persky’s sodomistic practises and pursuits. I wonder, though, what could possibly make Dixon so keen on the works of jol- -lyold Stanley Q. When, in the line of duty, I have been obliged to read the results of Stanley's labors, I have found WEST VANCOUVER Police have charged a 17-year-old young of- fender with obtaining transporta- tion by fraud following a May 3 incident at the. West Vancouver courthouse. Police say the youth had to Deserves 1191 WEST iSth ST. 986-42 S]_ MARINE OR ISIT possible to.slobber in print? Certainly. And John - Dixon, the president. of the B.C, Civil Liberties Association, has been slobbering in print over the works of Stanley Q. Persky, the well-known sodomite and Capilano College them to be hack stuff. His gram- -mar and diction are not that great, ‘either. But that’s only to be ex- pected, seeing that he teaches. 1 know that because we once - both worked for the same paper, the now-defunct Vancouver West Sider, where it was my occasional pleasure to cuff Stanley. (In prini,- that i is, for it is just as easy to cuff ..in print as it is to slobber.) After one such cuffing, the Capilano; pedagogue and pansy called me ‘‘a human stinkbomb.’” Not a bad line, but hardly Hemingway. : Stanley Q. is also a contributor to the homosexual paper Angles, where he has written pantingly _- about ‘“‘muscular wonderbuns”’ and other parts of the male anat- omy favored by homos. He also wrote about ‘‘Buddy’s,”* which Dixon calls “‘one of Vancouver’s most successful gay bars.”’ I wouldn’t know about that, but perhaps Dixon has done some research in that area. In any event, it was ‘‘Buddy’s” that inspired the title to the book. Not content with mentioning Hemingway and Persky in the same breath, Dixon avers that the object of his approval is ‘‘a book for grown-ups with a lively interest in sexual desire and the connec- tions that Desire forms with Love and Beauty.”’ Wassat?! Say it again, Sam. make a court appearance on another charge and hailed a cab from Granville Street in Vancouver ‘for the trip to West Vancouver. He allegedly told the driver that he had to pay a $175 fine for drinking in a public place. He then told the driver to wait for him outside Every Mother the Best! AT DISCOUNT PRICES Mind you, this bubbling reviewer is not of the opinion that “Buddy’s” will work ‘‘for those in whom this urgent quickening of the soul has never been a big. deal...”’. He then continues: “Such blameless folk would do well to save themselves the $20 and spare themselves needless aggrava- tion. As for the rest of us...”’. Urgent quickening of the soul?’ — Give us a break, Dix. And exactly who and what are ‘‘the rest of us’’? Try to be clear, old sport, even if you are an assistant pro- fessor of philosophy. That's not all. Stanley Q’s great work is ‘‘abso- lutely calm, direct, and unassum- ingly honest.”’-So much so that **Buddy’s” is ‘‘a shameless book bya genuinely shameless man. That is, a man without or beyond shame...”’. That description is not meant to’ ~ be critical. So we may take it that being without shame is not a bad * thing. ! Dixon rounds off his song of praise by referring to Stanley Q. as “‘activist, academic, and- yeoman of the NDP braintrust.’’ Well, we know that the NDP is the prefer- red party of the pansies, bet please spare us the yeoman stuff. In the picture that accompanied the story, Stanley Q. is simpering. Purring, too, probably. Being right up there with Hem, he must be looking for a Nobel prize in litera- ture. For a guy who has written another The Old Man And The Sea, nothing less would do® Errant cab customer arrested while he went in to pay the fine. 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