Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--Heap thought one of the main problems a writer faced was how to keep a publisher from interfering with his text, as a condition of publication. How to maintain the integrity of his narrative voice.

This was a problem for society, for a culture, although not too many people in the society chose to recognize it, mush less be alarmed by it.

But what happened when the corporations took over literature and starved out all the underground writers completely, as they practically almost have, and the writers who were passing as rebels and outlaws were whited sepulchers, phonies, who knew just how to pose as outlaws without really asking the penetrating questions.

What happened to universities when the professors all shared the corporate mindset, held corporate values, acted like minions of the War Heads, even if they weren't, to keep their jobs.

Well, Heap couldn't save the culture. He couldn't even save himself.

He'd make his last side trip to New Orleans, go to the Text show at the Gallery Above, go to booksALIVE 2007!, find a job, and go back to work.

He'd done it before. He could do it again.

At least he got another book written. Without tarting it up or dumbing it down. To suit some committee.