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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
THE BOYS IN THE BAND gather to play at a homosexual birthday party, and the melody, while at times merry, is mostly minor key. Mart Crowley's characters parry wittily and wound easily.
TO WOLFE Ken Kesey is a Christ-like figure, the founder of a new religion. He stands at the center of a band of disciples ("The Merry Pranksters") and interprets for them the meaning of a new experience.
The experience that united the Merry Pranksters was, of course, LSD. One of the derelictions of Wolfe's book is his failure to delineate the ethical attributes of the LSD experience. He fails to describe the coherency of the Prankster's experience of acid and what they did in the...