European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Hon Stone y 1 by George Vecsey new York times right Larry Flynn wants to warn people who have heard about his spiritual experience dont get the wrong Larry Flynt still cant stand organized and explicit sex is Stilt the Cornerstone of his Hustler but something has apparently shaken Larry Flynt sent him on a monthlong Retreat to has changed his altered his views on women rights and even made him temporarily according to Flynt and his whatever is chiming inside he 35yearold pub wants to spread it he recently purchased y newspapers in los Angeles and in Plains and at along with the monthly Ohio and is of publishing More thoughtful March Issue of he wrote we will try to god would approve of in our stories and Pic future he would contain photo i of a Christ figure going doing his thing uld depict sexual scenes from the t insists that he docs not want to be anybody but he is planning to spread his social ideas beyond his Hustler j3 Are saying that Fly nos after from Ruth Carter the presidents Tisl is a ploy to avoid jail on his por Nogra but Flynt says it May actually Hurt different than they relate to if you ask 1 am a Hor again but i am going to continue publishing and anybody who Doest like it can go kiss a Jaii the churches arc going to turn against Liard in Hli first interview since he resumed from on a Beach in the they Are o be embarrassed because 1 relate to my god he is not when Flynn told the world of his conversion last no he promised to give up the leadership of the Empire he has built in which includes Hustler and Chic sexual paraphernalia and Book but he has modified that in still the having lost 30 pounds by Flynt has also lost a truculent expression seen in dozens o photographs taken during his courthouse his gentle Demeanour teemed to stun an old Friend who was visiting i cannot relate to what Larry is said Curt Mead from 1 he is still but he has changed so flints new views do not fit into the traditional Chris Tian theology he Calls the Symbol of the Cross the greatest catastrophe in christianity because it represents he regards Buddha and Mohammed a prophets equal to Christ and i Only believe in the Bible As it applies to but Fly nos fervent claim that something vital has happened to him certainly Falls within the Frame work of Hor again As a boy growing up in Magoffin where our biggest Industry was jury Flynt says his Only religious exposure was Frieand Brimstone holy roller tag a bout with cancer Hon Tarn Una Wilu a it it hos Odded a farce intensity to my she didst even have a doctor id always been in excellent she shrugs and Susan Sontag nude the appointment for herself As an afterthought while arranging a checkup for her fortuitous As it turned out not Only did she have breast but they said id have been dead in six months if i haunt caught that was two years in the meantime Susan Sontag among other had a Mastectomy and various followup operations written another Book the provocative on won the National Book critics Circle award for undergone started her third and reevaluated her whole being Susan a name regularly coupled with the description the intellectual if not the the film maker or the she has also put her critical mind to work on the matter at and come to with a thoughtful treatise called Ilene Una the which started out As a lecture and i now being converted into a deals with the cultural and literary associations that have Long surrounded such potent diseases a cancer and her own first Sontag were on a More visceral level animal i found myself doing wry primitive sorts of like sleeping with the Light on the firs couple of wan afraid of the you really do Itel As Toueh youre looking Inlo hat Black these Days who just turned neither looks revivalists in where they rolled around on the with that sure turned me this Sliver of appalachian religion is a highly ecstatic accompanied by suspicion line that Bias has often been presented in the pages of which Flynt developed from a strip joint newsletter and which now has a circulation of three Why third highest of the skin magazines behind and the March planned before includes an expose of 10 popular the sexual philosophy of Hustler has been heartily endorsed by flints who came to pose for the Magazine and remained As associate reportedly at a in a Telephone Flynt said i still believe what we arc women have got to lose their Hanjoh about displaying their a court in Cincinnati did not agree last year and Flynt is appealing his until lost Flynt says he consumed am than his share of whisky and Jet but As he travelled around the world la his k Flynt be began to question the values of i when he raised these questions walk nor sounds like a woman in the grip of Rangy and her Coa Black hair streaked by with she exudes Energy and nonet Asfe she makes a Point of openness about her i wifi because it can be helpful to other and its very important to break the people Are my reluctant to Deal with the thought of death they see it Ai some shameful and to Many people cancer equal i thought and i had to rethink Ever Yew what i what i wanted to after considering such possibilities As abandon of routing and taking off for faraway Sontag decided what she most wanted was just to continue Normal life living with her David who at 25 is commuting to Princeton going to seeing for the first eight All wanted was to be with loved ones and hold hands and the entire first was thinking about death All the but in Many Wiki its been a positive it has added a fierce intensity to my and been u sounds very but have of cancer does put things into its manuf tvs knowing youre going to die it ready makes having prkk4 ties and trying to follow them very real to that somewhat receded now More than two years have one and i dont feel the same sort of in a Way of Felt sorry i would like to keep some of that feeling of despite a couple of later scares that the cancer have Sontag doctor announced cheerily not Long ago your actuarial prospects Are sprucing i the i Hugh which is partly my Black tense of but think its goad to be in Contact with life and death Many people spend their lives defending themselves against the notion Bat life is i in Lac Tel Good not to Damp Down these conflicts and and you get terrific Energy from item in an Active and conscious for writ ing is a Way of paying As much attention As Page 14 the stars and stripes