BY JOEL RALEIGH, EDITOR
THE GREAT HIPPIE HOAX Stripping the petals off the Flower Children reveals them to be floundering in a cesspool of sex, half-crazed with weird drugs, parasitic, selfish, diseased and above all—coldly calculating!
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The germination for this book as a public service document began several months ago in San Francisco in the twilight of a raw and blustering day. In a state of hallucinatory coma, a young woman had been brought by an ambulance to the city hospital. Babbling and screaming, the patient was utterly oblivious of sights and sounds outside of herself. Stripped of all the verbiage by toxicologists, by officers who had filled in the proper forms, by surgeons, by the hospital's own records as prepared by nurses, the facts of the case were as follows: For the purpose of this report her name is Ella Willcox, aged 17. She was listed under the archaic heading of "spinster," but as shall be seen she was anything but that at the time of her arrival at the intensive care sector of the hospital. She was lying nude when she was found on the grubby floor of a foul tenement basement in the notorious Haight-Ashbury District, feeding grounds of an estimated 60,000 hippies. Her body was a classic of splendor—except for several factors. Her belly was distended with pregnancy and it was later determined she was approximately in the fifth month. Starting at the top and ranging down, her once-golden hair was crawling with body lice. The hair itself was matted and gummy and stank of perspiration. Her ears were clotted with filth that had accrued on the natural wax and her hearing was somewhat impaired until washing with high-powered syringes brought out blobs of congealed sediments. Her teeth were rotting and her breath was foul from noxious gases stemming from her stomach and internal organs. Her teeth hadn't been brushed for several months, it was plain to see, and were stained with cigarette and marijuana secretions.
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