homosexuality. A functioning police state needs no po­lice. Homosexuality does not occur to anyone as con­ceivable behaviour. . . . Homosexuality is a politicalcrime in a matriarchy. No society tolerates overt re­jection of its basic tenets. We aren’t a matriarchy here, Insh’allah. You know the experiment with rats where they are subject to this electric shock and dropped in cold water if they so much as move at a female. So they all become fruit rats and that’s the way it is with the etiology. And shall such a rat squeak out, ‘I’m queah and I luuuuuuuuve it’ or ‘Who cut yours off, you two- holed freak?’ ’twere a square rat so to squeak. During my rather brief experience as a psychoanalyst—spot of bother with the Society—one patient ran amok in Grand Central with a flame thrower, two committed suicide and one died on the couch like a jungle rat (jungle rats are subject to die if confronted suddenly with a hope­less situation). So his relations beef and I tell them, ‘It’s all in the day’s work. Get this stiff outa here. It’s a bring down for my live patients’—I noticed that all my homosexual patients manifested strong unconscious heterosex trends and all my hetero patients uncon­scious homosexual trends. Makes the brain reel, don’t it?”“And what do you conclude from that?”“Conclude? Nothing whatever. Just a passing obser­vation.”We are eating lunch in Benway’s office when he gets a call.“What’s that? . . . Monstrous! Fantastic! . . . Carry on and stand by.”He puts down the phone. “I am prepared to accept