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81 RAYMOND SOULARD, JR. Secret Joy Amongst These Times: The History of Scriptor Press, 1995 to the Present “Think for yourself & question authority” —Dr. Timothy Leary Chapter Five continued from The Cenacle / 48 / April 2003 In 1998, The Cenacle reached a level of self-actualization far beyond its first three years. Each contributor shined, more than once. Looking back on this year, I am very happy. There was no reason to continue the magazine except to push the limits of what it was about. With a tiny circulation, not made for sale, no advertising, The Cenacle is about artistic growth, about art, transcendence. Each of the year’s six issues raises the bar. Cenacle 24-25 Winter 1998 features a color cover by Barbara Brannon & her rendition of Mark Shorette’s excellent poem “Sophia’s Sestina” as centerfold. Cenacle 26 April 1998 features a Seattle travel journal collaboration between Brannon, Ric Amante, & me, plus another centerfold, this time with art by Mark Shorette. Cenacle 27 June 1998 has Barbara Brannon’s Orpheus cover, Rodin centerfold, “Golden Gate Notebook,” plus my Orpheus poems & acid photography, and Jim Burke’s record ∅I (Null Set One) on the accompanying cassette. Cenacle 28-29 Summer 1998 features the poetry and prose of Joe Ciccone with illustrations by Barbara Brannon The Cenacle / 49 / October 2003
82 plus a “psychedelic dialogue” between Ciccone and me on the cassette. Cenacle 30 October 1998 features Brannon’s Chicago travel journal & “Psychedelic Dialogue #2.” Finally, Cenacle 31 December 1998 features an issue-length project involving my “Immutable Phalanx” letter & the variety of contributors’ replies. What made The Cenacle successful this year was that I was eager to experiment with new ideas in every issue, move pieces around, stir up the dust so the magazine wouldn’t become sedimented. It became a challenge each issue to do something new, to keep long-running features fresh, & to decide which newer features from recent issues were worth pursuing. All this conceptualizing came down, for the most part, to challenging my contributors to go further with their art. This was a yearlong effort that concluded triumphantly with the massive 150-page-plus Cenacle 31 December 1999. Ric Amante was now settled in a good home & job out in the Seattle area. He would board a ferry boat twice daily to travel across the Puget Sound to work. He delighted in many ways in this trip: the beauty of Mt. Rainier, the play of seagulls & seals near the boat, & the queerness of the many shifty or just strange individuals he’d meet while smoking a cigarette in the boat’s stern. In Cenacle 24-25, however, there appeared a piece that he introduced rather than wrote. Ric had often told me of his long-passed friend Frank Arcuri’s amazing life, many talents, abilities, & visions. Ric’s introduction to Frank’s letter was pointedly insightful: More than anyone else I’ve ever known, Frank Arcuri lived out his truth in a way that was so uninfluenced by and unconcerned with both temporal movements in the arts, morals, or consciousness in general and those timeless (yet often pompous) verities of being (be they of love, fear, acknowledgment of beauty, etc.,etc.), that to be with him was to enter a world of possibilities that would challenge and often alter your conception of reality. . . Arcuri’s writing is funny & in reading it one can see where Ric’s prose style may have in part been influenced: It rains, it rains, I love my hotel. It is dirt cheap ($32 a week), and all filled with retired Chinese sailors. I have found a great job in a fish house on the dock. Tomorrow is my first day at The Cenacle / 49 / October 2003
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