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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 9, 1966
Fuller's Follies by John Fuller
“Let’s try to figure this one more time! Let’s take it from
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By JOHN FULLER
About six weeks ago I dis
cussed the alarmist crusade be
ing carried on by a group called
the Texas Smokers League, an
organization of people who feel
that their God-given right to puff
stogies is being threatened by
little old ladies in high-button
shoes.
Alas, not one angry protest
note was received. No threaten
ing letters appeared in my mail
box, no bombs were set in the
Batt Cave, no air was let out of
my tires. And — o bitter pill! —
the American Cancer Society
completely ignored my effort.
Not so with the column of Oct.
13. That was the one about the
Great Mail Extinction; and even
though I've already written some
thing about the first wave of
response to that one, the mail is
still trickling in, and I just can’t
let all those anonymous letters go
unanswered. And since they are
anonymous, the only way to an
swer them, it seems, is in print.
PROBABLY THE most mem
orable contribution was a big
greeting card which, when un
folded, shows a little guy perched
on the end of an elephant’s trunk,
with the explanation “Just my in
significant way of saying . . .”
The elephant is about a foot
square, and wears a bright pink
sign reading “HI!” It’s “to keep
the glare off the bottom of your
mailbox,” according to the ex
planatory note, and it’s signed by
“two Rice Coeds Velma and Sue
Carol.”
The recipient of the award is
usually a person who has com
pleted his junior year.
There’s also a letter from “Do-
di” at Texas Tech, which sympa
thizes with the universal prob
lems of students away at college
(the Great Mail Extinction, it
seems, isn’t confined to A&M),
and the only return address on
that one is a Gamma Sigma stick
er. There was also a locally-
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gized for beginning “Dear John,”
and concluded with the haunting
words “I’ll probably be writing
again from time to time,” This,
too, was anonymous, naturally.
BUT THE MOST intriguing of
all was a letter written on sort of
a yellowish-green stationery, in
an envelope lined with a pink-
and-purple paisley design—hon
est—which was postmarked Ven
tura, California. The message
was “In silence, man is alone with
his God.” Across the bottom of
the sheet was some fine print:
“Paste on bottom of box—as a
reflector.”
In all fairness, I should tell
about the Ultimate Poison Pen
letter I got about the same time.
It was, of course, anonymous,
with no return address, post
marked College Station, and it
contained just a sheet of paper
with the words “Fuller
SHOOT!” The significance of
that phrase can be explained by
anybody who’s ever lived in the
Duncan Area. It didn’t need to
be explained to me.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL implica
tions of this series of letters
should be pointed out, since there
seems to be a parallel. All of the
writers remained anonymous in
varying degrees; all indicated
some strong emotion (if it wasn’t
sympathy, it was pure, naked
disgust), and every one of the let
ters was sent to my post office
box instead of the Batt. In other
words, nothing was wasted on a
mailbox that hardly ever glints
emptily.
But the obvious outcome from
this chain of events is not what
actually happened. Granted, I
began feeling like a minor celeb
rity when I started getting all the
mail; but little by little I began
to realize that these anonymous
letters were doing my mental
processes no good. I discovered
that plain, ordinary mail—^hereto
fore a luxury—seemed lackluster
and uninteresting. I caught my
self looking suspiciously at every
Maggie I saw, wondering how I
could go about finding the ones
who’d written those anonymous
letters. I made the mistake of
putting up the Rice coeds’ card
on my bulletin board, and then
spent sleepless nights staring fix
edly at the luminous pink ele
phant. I went around asking
every student from California if
he knew anybody that uses green-
and-purple paisley stationery.
Clearly, I was a candidate for
Anonymous Letter - Receivers
Anonymous.
THE REMAINDER of this col
umn, therefore, will be devoted
to a humble, desperate plea:
Maggies, Dodi, Velma, Sue
Carol, Poison Pen Writers, and
you out there in Ventura, Calif.,
whoever you are: if you read
this, have a heart! The Great
Mail Extinction was bad enough;
the Great Anonymity Scheme
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