Manson Cult; was Golden Fang

[alice wellintown]

>   I can't imagine that you think "The Secret Integration"  (an early story
> published in 1964,  the height of the Civil Rights struggle - the story was
> later used in V., ) is anything other than "liberal"  irony (in the terms of
> those days!).

Not sure what you are asking here, but as TSI was not used in V., I'll
assume you have confused it with the other tale that was used and say
that TSI is quite significant for those interested in reading P's
later works. The Black man in the story exposes P's very naive  latent
racism (as discussed in his SL Introduction P held many of the
opinions of his generation toward women and people of color) and the
lack of balance his writings sometimes suffer from still. That is, the
McAfree d-tox dream scenes are over-written and warp the tale proper;
although the story is the best of the group and far better, in many
respects, than CL49. That the kids fail to blow stuff up and disrupt
of tear down the Military Industrial Complex remains a common theme,
but it's the apparent loss of innocence, the ironic false poignant
coming of age conclusion, when the boyz reject Carl, their imaginary
and invisible robot black boy, that is the model for much of what P
will do later, especially in VL and IV.