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CAMP CONCENTRATION
by Thomas M. Disch


Copyright 1968, copyright renewed 1996 by Thomas M. Disch


All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, in 1969. Vintage Books and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MAY 1999

ISBN 0-375-70545-7



This book is dedicated, with thanks,
to John Sladek and Thomas Mann,
two good writers.





Now, reader, I have told my dream to thee;
See if thou canst interpret it to me,
Or to thyself, or neighbor. But take heed
Of misinterpreting; for that, instead
Of doing good, wifi but thyself abuse.
By misinterpreting evil issues.
Take heed, also, that thou be not extreme,
In playing with the outside of my dream.
Nor let my figure, or similitude,
Put thee into a laughter or a feud;
Leave this for boys and fools; but as for thee,
Do thou the substance of my matter see.
Put by the curtains; look within my veil;
Turn up my metaphors and do not fail.
There, if thou seekst them, such things to find,
As will be helpful to an honest mind.
What of my dross thou findest there, be bold
To throw away, but yet preserve the gold.
What if my gold be wrapped in ore?
None throws away the apple for the core.
But if thou shalt cast all away as vain,
I know not but 'twill make me dream again.

John Bunyan,
The Pilgrim's Progress