Straight Life San Quentin 1961—Part One

"San Quentin wasn't so bad after all." Well, I keep on saying it: This episode exemplifies what has been clear, at least to me, from the beginning of our "interviews." When Art angrily told the Synanon intake people, "I've LIVED my life.," he really had. An odd thing to say about a heroin addict, but. when he wasn't on the nod he was intensely present in the moment. And he paid attention to everything he saw and heard how he felt and he remembered it in detail and described it.