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interest. (The oldest living S&M leatherman still playing at the time of
this writing is 92 years old, and, no, it’s not Larry.)
Twenty-five years from now, The Leatherman’s Handbook will be
celebrated on its Fiftieth Anniversary in a collection published from the
oeuvre of Larry Townsend. The future politics buzzing around Larry’s
Handbook will be even newer, shinier versions of jealousy, envy, calumny,
and slander. The on-going never-ending tales of leather will have new
chapters and new thrills and new cautions. But the crack of a whip will
sound the same as it has since whip first touched flesh. In outer space, you
cannot hear a scream. In the inner space of leather, the voices of innocence
and the voices of experience will continue to whisper from the page . . .
III. Eyewitness Illustrations

“Larry Townsend and Jack Fritscher,” Fritscher-Hemry House, June 16, 1995. Photo-
graph by Mark Hemry. ©Mark Hemry

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