Harlan Ellison's Gopher Story

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[werdna]

1. I had the good fortune to attend a live lecture by Harlan Ellison.

It was, if memory serves me correctly, at LSU Shreveport. He began with a complaint of all the Christian God channels on cable running 24/7 and by warning all the Godsquad Christians
who might vocally object (heckle him) to his being Jewish or disrupt with evangelical exhortations of any kind that they would be, at least, verbally abused by him and definitely escorted, in a not necessarily kind way, out of the venue. Twice during his talk, a lone Christian attempted to take the floor and amid a verbal assault by the author, were quickly removed from the room with considerable assistance from husky ushers. Harlan was really a very sweet guy, just don't cross him.

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2. You're right about that.

As a victim of extreme bullying when he was young, Harlan Ellison didn't take $HIT from anyone.

The "Gopher Story" video posted above only comes close to telling the actual gopher story.
Ellison's short story about this is titled: "Driving in the Spikes" and it tells "the rest of the story."
It can be found on Tumblr and in the book:
"The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective"
https://search.worldcat.org/title/47294223

You can also Google:
"Driving in the Spikes" by Harlan Ellison