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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 12. 1969.

Obscenity

Obscenity

I Did so enjoy G. W. Calder's informative and imaginative article, plonked squarely in the centre of Salient at benefits a man whose ideas are 10 normal and undeviating and 10 obviously Right. What a cunning disguise for yet another attack on Masketade" (sic, or as they say in your columns, sick) who could have seen the logical connection between swear words and what (anonymous) psychologists say about them, and that sick publication "Maskerade" (sic) but a man of imagination like C. W. Calder? I would love to know exactly how "obscenity . . . deadens perception" apart from) Definitely limiting it, of course. But it is not for us lesser products of a "sick university society" to know these revealed truths. Prophets of the rank of G. W. Calder (he must be a prophet because I've never heard of him) may tell us there things for our own good but it is not our place to demand or even expect a rational explanation. It is so and so be it. Let not this prophet be without honour in his own stomping ground!

F. E. Wylie.