Oui January 1973

7 MAIL
We all need someone we can bleed on. and if you want to, folks, you can bleed on us It makes for sticky pages, though. Please check with the scrub nurse on your way out.
13 OPENERS
More of the same, only different. Soothsayers say sooth. Elements of the American past and the European present are examined. It's the same old riddle, only start from the middle.
62 BEFORE THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
New posthumous semi-fiction by the best mind of his generation, which was Beat. Those 15 numbered balls
are the devil's tool.
64 TRUE GRETE
Helplessly hoping, her harlequin hovers nearby
72 LOVE POEMS FROM THE CHINESE by Huang O
translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
74 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE AFTERNOON by Barbara Long
Can an aging matador from East Philly find happiness in the bull rings of Spain? Nope.
76 SUICIDE, INC. by Donn Pearce
If you should want to get dead one day, this fellow will tell you how. If you ask him, he'll even show you how. Business is business.
79 SOURCE SEEKING
Moving delicately from what to where, we present generic suggestions for your very own Forgotten People. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
84 JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT by Stanley Elkin
What's it like to be famous, handsome, almost rich and French? It's hard to say.
88 THE SOUL OF THE INDIAN by Thomas Sanchez
Some of his best friends are rabbits and the ghosts of long-dead ancestors. He speaks to the wind. His eyes are not white.
90 CLOVIS TROUILLE: THE BACK SIDE OF ART
The man who painted that Oh! Calcutta! picture is old but not dirty.
96 DOWN THROUGH HISTORY WITH ANNE JONES
The woman in our center spread conjures up visions of the last optional nation, prairies larger than Denmark and clouds no bigger than a man's fist. And it's almost Independence Day.
106 CONVERSATION WITH KING HUSSEIN by V. Leprince
The only sensible human being between Cairo and Baghdad speaks of Munich, Israel and Divine Will..
109 MAMIE'S STILL ALIVE AT 39 by John Riley
Mamie Van Doren keeps busy promoting the wonderfulness of Richard M. Nixon and traveling to Vietnam, where her pubes hung down to her knees. Or so she says.
110 HOW TO SEDUCE A FRENCH GIRL
International affairs reduced to their most basic level.
112 NIGHT LIGHTS
How to dress up for an important evening, even if you never leave the house. Francis Giacobetti, the world's greatest photographer, makes it all self-evident.
118 TIMEPIECE by Claude Klotz
The next time you are seized with a desire to remove all of your clothes in a moving elevator, remember this:
Speed kills.
122 APPOINTMENT IN LISBON by Charles Parmiter
An exploration in words and pictures of the cheapest city in Europe
129 FREUD'S DA VINCI Illustrations by Mark Podwal
Sigmund Freud of Vienna once took it upon himself to psychoanalyze Leonardo of Vinci from a distance of several centuries. Here we reinterpret Da Vinci's sketchbook as Freud might have seen it.
134 RETURN OF THE HUNTER by Carol Troy
Our first Vietnam flying ace comes home to discover that shooting down five MIGs isn't such a big deal.
138 SPACE ODYSSEY Photographs by Richard Fegley
Is there life on other planets? Is there sex in outer space?