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Playboy - June 1964



Hairy Gertz And The 47 Crappies
one of life's yeastier experiences is to fish in that rich mulligatawny stew of dead toads, garter snakes and number-ten oil known as cedar lake

  

memoir By JEAN SHEPHERD
 
 


LIFE, WHEN YOU'RE a male kid, is what the grownups are doing. The adult world seems to be some kind of secret so¬ciety that has its own passwords, hand¬clasps and countersigns. The thing is to get in. But there's this invisible, impene¬trable wall between you and all the great, unimaginably swinging things that they seem to he involved in. Occa¬sionally, mutterings of exotic secrets and incredible pleasures filter through. And so you bang against it, throw rocks at it, try to climb over it, burrow under it; but there it is. Impenetrable. Enigmatic... 


 

copyright © 1964 Playboy Magazine

This story was reprinted in the book "In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash" and was used in the movie "My Summer Story"
 


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