Saturday, November 27, 2004
Frugging by Willamette's waters. Jerking o'er its blue.
"Each Thursday night the Trail Room turned dance floor and echo chamber with distorted, writhing bodies and twanging, loud popular sounds. A school group known as Narcissus and The Mirrors [yes, that's them in the above photo] were the Pied Pipers: they led the children off on their imitation of what they see in LIFE, Time, and Sports Illustrated.
Dreaming of doing it on the beach at Ft. Lauderdale in a bikini. Or settling for Seaside, with a Blitz. Frugging by Willamette's waters. Jerking o'er its blue.
It was a way to hurry the weekend. A way to hurry the heated impulse to let go. Narcissus and his Mirrors were just as good as the next group, and were just as good as social pressures demand they be. Until the next type of permissive orgy gets out of hand in a LIFE gatefold. "
[From The Voyageur, 1965; published by the student body of Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.]
