By Terry Southern (1924–95), from an unpublished manuscript written in 1952. It is included in Making It Hot for Them, a collection of his writings edited by Nile Southern that will be published this year by Antibookclub.

It was something of a joke that he was called Pusher — not that he wasn’t one but the fact that he actually was a sort of dope peddler. Even the police called him Pusher, but they didn’t bother him much; it may have been that he had other characteristics so much more salient that his small operations in the dope field were…