LETTERS
In Response to
Isaac Rosenfeld
EDITORS:
I am puzzled by the emry in
Isaac Rosenfeld's Journal which
you published (Vol. XLVII, #1,
1980): "The Man who was
Twice Arrested. E.V.D. Haag.
Picked up on charges of homo–
sexual vagrancy-& on suspi–
cion of murder. Patently false, of
course. But these are the 'crimes'
of which he is symbolically
guilty."
Isaac's "patemly false, of
course" is correct: I have never
engaged in, been charged with,
or been "picked up" for "homo–
sexual vagrancy," or "murder."
Why the entry? Perhaps Is–
aac played with the idea of a
~tory
in which "these are the
crimes" of which I (as he appre–
hended or created me) would
become "symbolically guilty."
But possible fictions must not
be
confused with actual facts.
Ernest van den Haag
