CANDY and JUNK

[Mark Mandel]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that it is unlikely that this rather obscure short story
> should have had such an impact on adolescent American culture. Maybe the terms just
> percolated in gay culture for years--inspired by Mordden, who has been pretty
> popular in gay culture--and then made the crossover? Maybe Mordden was
> particularly clever in choosing terms that had not actually come into use but were
> so "right" that eventually folks invented them independently?

Or perhaps he *had* heard them, but did not consciously remember them.
Obviously not proveable, but possible?

m a m

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