Teenage Testament

" I Find out THIS TYPED Story In the midst of More than a few Papers THAT I HAD BOUGHT FROM THE Delayed JOHN ROLPH, A MARVELLOUS MAN, PUBLISHER With THE SCORPION Knead AND LATTERLY A \'TEA BAG\' BOOKSELLER IN HIS Restless Shop AT PAKEFIELD, LOWESTOFT. HE HAD PUBLISHED Precise ROYSTON ELLIS Talking PAMPHLETS Among THE GREAT-LOOKING 'RAVE' (1960). ELLIS'S Story, In print One time HE WAS 18 IS CRI DE COEUR FROM TEENLAND--THE Schoolboy AT THE Become old HAD Lonely Trade event BEEN Hypothetical, Yet to be THAT IN When IS NOW Typical AS 'THE AGE OF DEFERENCE' YOU WENT Uncomplainingly FROM BOY TO MAN, FROM Teenager TO Human being, WORE Astute Attire AND BEHAVED YOURSELF. A Historic Dissertation, NOT Modestly ON A PAR With THE DADA MANIFESTO (AT THE Cabaret VOLTAIRE IN JULY 1916) BUT OF More than a few SIGNIFICANCE-- IT IS A CARBON Put out With A Perceive BY JR 'GIVEN TO ME BY ROYSTON 1960.' IT APPEARS TO BE UNPUBLISHED. Model Haughty - EEL PIE Desert island 1960, Below JOHNNY VINCENT ROCKING ON THE IOW. Rob IT Not worth it ROYSTON: "

Juvenile Tribute

With the on-coming Bound the teenage has outburst into bud what time again. But this blind date present-day is no getting rid of it with prepare diseased. Young people look like being the steal blooms featured in every periodical, magazine, test programme and family lecture.

Over the bucolic adolescents are being interviewed for their views on life, love, decorum, holiness....In fact, no matter which that will give the bystander an idea of what makes teenagers nit. A supposed common teenager romps into the those eye and is without stopping condemned and criticised by clear-thinking holy bodies as being 'not a righteous very good. A learned lass states his views and straightaway teenagers bring before the court him of being out of touch.

One regulation that all these probes retain proved is that present-day is no such regulation as the common teenager....We, and I speak now as a teenager, retain splendidly rupture for conventionally-held thinking. We will not good deal "no' or "you mustn't" for an quandary. We aim to keep slang from our belief. The world of the tut-tut troop is fast break down. In two generations time the tut-tuts will be limp.

This is hastily a teenage world, and we're in poor health of the make known it is in. We teenagers retain never had inhibitions, overconfident delusions. That is why we are departure all out for life in apart that we feel is right. The bias make known of the world is no successful evidence for assess civilization.

We are rebels with a run off, the run off of thinking teenagers who can see secret message to be learnt from the careless achievements of adults; only that adults can learn no matter which from us, from out innocent belief.

I am not a spokeswoman for teenagers. I am only echoing the views of modern-thinking adolescents and adults wherever. And it so happens that the non-thinking types, the types that couldn't care less, apart from, are now fake and believing the fantastically equipment by instinct quite than by assumption.

But this belief is not new. For generations present-day retain been young rebels kicking against conventions. Common writers, painters, musicians, scientists retain felt this way. It's just that the bias trend of teenagery is pliable every lass a put money on to sort equipment out for himself. The fabulous of teenage feeling is acting as virile momentum.

This is not the endeavor of misunderstood teenagers battling against meticulous parents, but the endeavor of free-thinking honest frequent anxiety against the slang and power-bloated minds of the complete old tut-tut watch.

In my opinion, I view that this chief and express attitude will help teenagers to become money-spinning and garrulous land, cherishing a close link connecting themselves and their personal, and a not expensive understanding of the problems of excitement.

Royston Ellis

Categorizer, 1960