These were things that have partially offset my feelings of sorrow and bitterness and hatred at the things I saw in the Tombs, and seven years before, in the streets of Brooklyn.
Partially, because I wonder who will cry for the old men, and for the young men, in a society that has spent so much time making everyone equal that now “we are all so equal, we’re nothing.” Jerry the Doorman, do you hear?
Or as John Mason Brown has said:
Is the Common Man too common?
I’ve got this Common-Man Wind-Up Doll, see. You just wind it up, set it down on a table…
…and it finks on you.
COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK
Clerk’s Office November 14, 1960
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Against
HARLAN ELLISON
ON COMPLAINT FOR 1877 P.I.
No. 3926—60
Dated, September 12, 1960
I DO CERTIFY that it appears from an examination of the Record of Complaints on file in this office that the above complaint was dismissed by the Grand Jury, on October 31, 1960, at the October Term, 1960 and the said Harlan Ellison and his surety were severally discharged from their Undertaking to Answer.
F. HOWARD BARRETT
Clerk of Court.
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