The Digger Papers
August 1968
In the summer of 1968, the Diggers produced their final
collective publication and gave it away as a gift to the world. Emmett Grogan made a deal
with Paul Krassner to print 40,000 copies for the Diggers' Free edition, in exchange for
using the inside pages and back cover for Issue No. 81 of The Realist. Thus there were two
editions of The Digger Papers. To this day, both are in rare supply, although the Free
edition is highly sought by collectors.
The Digger Papers combined new articles with some of the
best pieces that had appeared on the street over the previous two years. The centerpiece
of the collection, The
Post-Competitive, Comparative Game of a Free City
was the summation of the Digger/Free City philosophy, while the classic Digger manifesto,
Trip Without A Ticket made its reappearance here.
Below this page are reprinted all of the pages from The Digger
Papers, as well as the frontispiece that appeared only in the Realist edition. If any
readers of this archive would care to provide information about this publication, I would
like to add anything pertinent to these pages. Please contact me by
email or otherwise.
In the panels to the right are thumbnail images of each
page in the 24-page pamphlet. Note that the first thumbnail shows the cover that was used
for the Realist edition. The second thumbnail shows the cover to the Free edition. All
other pages were identical.
[2012 addition: a high-res version now exists as a PDF file to download.
The Digger Papers 1968 (PDF format)
is a 7MB file so beware for anyone on a slow Internet connection.]
Table of Contents
Memo to the Reader (Realist Edition Front Cover)
A Curse on the Men in Washington,
Pentagon (Page 2)
Trip Without A Ticket (Page 3)
Dialectics of Liberation (Page 4)
Final City, Tap City: Crack at
the Bottom of It (Page 8)
The Birth of Digger Batman (Page 10)
All Watched over by Machines of
Loving Grace (Page 11)
Rushes (Page 12)
Digger Mandala (Page 13)
Take a Cop to Dinner (Page 14)
Post-Competitive, Comparative
Game of a Free City (Page 15)
Address List (Page 17)
Garbage or Nothing (Page 18)
Garbage Montage (Page 19)
Selections from the Free City
News (Page 20)
Free City Bloodlight (Page 22)
Huey Must Be Set Free (Page 23)
1% Free Poster (Back Cover)
Addenda [2012]
The Digger Papers 1968 (PDF format)
|
