WE HAVE WITH US TODAY

At current bootliquor quotations, Haig & Haig costs twelve dollars a
quart, while any dependable booklegger can unearth a copy of "Jurgen"
for about fifteen dollars. Which indicates, at least, an economic
application of Nonsenseorship.

Its literary, social, and ethical reactions are rather more involved.
To define them somewhat we invited a group of not-too-serious thinkers
to set down their views regarding nonsenseorships in general and any
pet prohibitions in particular.

In introducing those whose gems of protest are to be found in the
setting of this volume, it is but sportsmanlike to state at the start
that admission was offered to none of notable puritanical proclivity.
The prohibitionists and censors are not represented. They require, in
a levititious literary escapade like this, no spokesman. Their
viewpoint already is amply set forth. Moreover, likely they would not
be amusing.... Also, the exponents of Nonsenseorship are victorious;
and at least the agonized cries of the vanquished, their cynical
comment or outraged protest, should be given opportunity for
expression!

Not that we consider HEYWOOD BROUN agonized, cynical, or outraged.
Indeed, masquerading as a stalwart foe of inhibitions, he starts right
out, at the very head of the parade, with a vehement advocacy of
prohibition. His plea (surely, in this setting, traitorous) is to