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The varying and various fanatical groups, such as, for example, the anti-homosexual Florida contingent, are in a way quite natural and necessary in your country. They serve as focus points for others who have the same ideas but are afraid to really face them or admit their beliefs. A former Miss America does it for them.

Grudges and old hatreds and old alliances that could otherwise really erupt, say, into wars or bloodshed in your country, are instead given normal, periodic eruptions so that free speech, of whatever nature—even inflammatory —serves to bring such issues into the open.

I suggest that first of all you ask yourselves what you really want, and what you really believe. (Amused:) I will tell you what you want, my dear friend: you want the books to sell very well, and the message to go out clearly to all. As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

(To me:) your feelings have been ambiguous, and so far the books have sold exactly as you really wanted them to.

(10:40.) They have done you one important service that should not be overlooked: they understood you to be reticent. They did not try to turn you into performers. They are not, indeed, a greedy house. They are not really the greatest business-oriented house, either—but houses who are would have exerted pressures upon you that would far outstrip or outweigh any disadvantages coming from Prentice.