Coincidance - Principia Discordia

INTRODUCTION TO
Three Articles From
THE REALIST
Paul Krassner's iconoclastic journal, The Realist,
has published more of my writings than any
other American magazine, and there was a
period in the late 1950s and early 1960s when I
might have given up writing entirely if Paul
had not gone on publishing my work. I think
everybody in the "counterculture" owes a great
debt to Paul Krassner, but I perhaps owe him
more than anyone else.
The first two of these three pieces were written in the 1960s; the third is
newer, and was written in 1985. I will speak more about the third piece later,
but now I find it illuminating that the 1960s articles deal with, respectively,
the most savagely Darwinian of Tennessee Williams's dramas and with the
Marquis de Sade. The reader might think I was rather morbidly preoccupied
with violence and sadism at that time; and, indeed, I was.
Although I became a pacifist so far back I cannot exactly date my
"conversion" (if that's what it was), my opposition to warfare escalated in the
1960s in exact proportion to my horror at the non-governmental violence
that was becoming more and more common in America then and has
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