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Around the middle of last year, 500 copies of as amateurish-looking T5-page literary magazine with the vegusly menacing name of scorpion appeared in the Square. It sold for a dollar a copy, which was 20 coast more than it cost to print, and Robert Justice '66, its creator, lost 300 dollars. Whatever readership the first issue acquired had deserted both Cambridge and scorpion by the time the second came out is June...
...other hand, there are developments, Scorpion, partly supported by Adams House, broke print for the first time with an interesting issue--all the more so because its editors seem to have solved their problems of selection by including everything they could find. The infrequent throwaway of an undergraduate publishing cartel is reputedly paying for undergraduate fiction--something nobody else can afford to do. And then there's the Island, the first fruit of an extraordinarily literary freshman class...
With a doctor beside her to treat possible rattlesnake, tarantula or scorpion bites, Secret Service men and rangers nearby to fend away any stray panthers or bobcats (Big Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...
Finally, the poetry of the first Scorpion is of surprisingly good quality. Tony Kahn '66 offers an excellent "Village Men" as well as three poems translated from the Russian. Drevid McCord Stroud '66 offers five rather short, light poems which are a welcome change from the usual social protests. "Love: Tabled" and "The Devil May Care" are perhaps the best, but everyone's favorite will be "On The William James Hall": "White goddess or invader/The ministry of Truth on our horizon,/House of the hidden persuader:/Kyrie eleison...
...Scorpion, in short, is an entertaining, diverse, and promising first attempt. It is worth reading. It would be very worthwhile indeed if the editors can produce a second issue to turn the attempt into a fait accompli...