Word: kuttner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scorpion might be a hand-to-mouth operation, but there will be nothing haphazard about it; Kuttner has carefully fashioned his own taste into a consistent philosophy for the magazine. "The styles of tomorrow will supposedly come from today," he explains, with rare lack of hyperbole, searching for words which on paper look like a prepared speech. "I don't want to go into the 'To's with our generation having created no type of synthetic heritage for ourselves...
...Kuttner gets violent at the thought of filling his magazine with either slick -- even New Yokerish -- Action or traditional poetry. "It's ludicrous to think of an undergraduate sitting down in 1966 to write a classical lyric." His own writing, both poetry and prose, is "thinkable, but not readable -- there is a majesty and grandeur in something that's in its crude, formative, germinal stages, where the reader can fill in the gaps." And then, characteristically, interrupting his own lecture to shriek. "Poetry is wonderful -- it's nonsense -- I love...
...twice that before putting the magazine together. "It's such a pain to put out, it might as well be big enough to be worth it." All the material is solicited, "hard wrung," from people either he or his board knows. A few things have come in unsolicited but, Kuttner says scornfully, "You pass a Cliffie on the street. She scowis. You scowl. Well, that's the kind of writing you get from these girls...
...issue will also contain a screen play, ("not just a crappy dialogue, but a script from a real flic -- you need something totally visible in a literary magazine") and some "marginalia" -- notes on one of the poems, probably one of Kuttner's own, by an "English major's English major...
...privilege of putting all this between covers is one for which Kuttner might have to pay, to the tune of several hundred dollars, but that threat makes the task of dinosaur-fighting just that much more appealing. "I don't give a dawn whether they buy it or not, as long as they read it. If they're not interested, I don't want them to touch it." He enjoys talking like a boy-with-mission and, if the magazine survives beyond its next issue, he's probably found as good a mission as any. "But look," he says...