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Harold Louis Humes, Jr. ( April 11 , 1926 - September 10 , 1992 ) was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was a champion talker, activist, filmmaker, architect, and contemporary Don Quixote.

In 1966, in London, he took large amounts of LSD, which was given to him by Timothy Leary, and he became paranoid and sometimes delusional. After this, he no longer published any writing. When he returned to the US in 1969, he reinvented himself as a "guru on campus", a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next 20-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia, Princeton, Bennington, and Harvard, dependent on both his family, and on students who were fascinated by his mixture of erudition and mental illness.

Early life

Humes was born in Douglas, Arizona. His father was a chemical engineer from Michigan who studied at McGill. His mother, Alexandra Elizabeth McGonnigle, came from Montreal. Both parents were Christian Science practitioners.

Humes grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, graduating from Princeton High. It was there that he won his lifelong nickname, when his classmates dubbed him Doc after "Doc Huer", a brilliant scientist/nutty professor in Buck Rogers , a popular comic strip.

He attended MIT, and did a stint in the United States Navy, but left in 1948 to go to Paris.

Work

In Paris, Humes owned an English language magazine called The Paris News Post , edited by Leon Kafka. Humes recruited the young American blueblood Peter Matthiessen as literary editor, not knowing until much later that Matthiessen was working for the CIA at the time. Together they founded The Paris Review , a literary journal, and soon brought in George Plimpton, who would remain its editor for fifty years.

Humes studied fiction writing with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard, graduating in 1954. He participated in Leary and Alpert's LSD experiments while there, and later continued his own experiments, guiding the first LSD experiences of several famous literary friends.

He wrote two novels, The Underground City (Random House, 1958) and Men Die (Random House, 1959). Humes was mentioned in Esquire magazine (along with John Updike and William Styron) as among the nation's most promising young novelists.

He also directed Don Peyote , a movie starring Ojo de Vidrio, and designed and built a paper house, which he hoped would be an affordable housing alternative. Although never successfully marketed, the paper house was widely regarded as a substantial improvement over his earlier plans for living inside a hollowed out ox carcass.

Humes was reputed to have worked for several years as a meteorologist in London.

He managed Lord Buckley, the great spoken word artist; fought the New York City Police Department over the Cabaret Card Laws; and was Norman Mailer's campaign manager for Mailer's first run for New York City mayor -- a campaign that was aborted by Mailer's stabbing of his wife.

In 1964, Humes wrote a paper entitled "Bernoulli's Epitaph" espousing a theory of the shape of the universe as that of a spherical vortex, noting as an aside that a cross-section of a spherical vortex looks like a yin-yang symbol...

He started a third novel, titled The Memoirs of Dorsey Slade, but never finished it.

By 1967, Humes had developed a detoxification method for heroin addiction that involved, in his terms, micro-doses of LSD, medical-grade hashish, emergency-massage techniques, flotation exercises and breath work, which he claimed - if done correctly - would lead to a 'rebirthing' experience over a 3-5 day length of time. He was practicing these techniques in what he termed 'crash-pad clinics' in Rome, Italy.

By 1968, he was in Paris in time to be jailed in the demonstrations that were part of the student revolution there.

He was back in the United States by April, 1969, which is when he gave away many thousands of dollars in cash on and around the Columbia University campus.

Humes also frequented the Princeton University campus in the Spring of 1970. He would entertain groups of students with elaborately wrought, delusional accounts of the F.I.D.O. computer system (a supposed underground maze of interconnected computers, run by the Government); disappearing and reappearing "lenticular" clouds (claimed by Humes to be heat sinks for alien UFOs); and systems for decoding the supposed hidden messages embedded in the "snow" that would fill a television screen after a broadcast television station had signed off for the night.

"After Doc died of cancer in 1992, Immy filed a Freedom of Information Act request that eventually turned up a thick file. It turns out that the U.S. government was keeping tabs on Doc, from 1948 to 1977." Perhaps some of Mr. Humes' 'paranoia' was not so far-fetched after all.

Personal life

In 1954, he married Anna Lou Elianoff, daughter of the linens designer Luba Elianoff. They had four daughters. She divorced him in 1966 and married Nelson W. Aldrich Jr in 1967, who had worked at The Paris Review as an editor.

He had one son in Italy in 1968, and another, Devin Lomon-Humes - an artist - with the cellist Glynis Lomon, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1977.

Death

Humes died of prostate cancer at St. Rose's Home in New York City in 1992.

Philosophical and/or political views

Humes was a passionate and early advocate of medical marijuana.

In some ways, the original hippie, he was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of hypnopornography.

Bibliography

  • The Underground City (Random House, 1958)(Random House, 2007)
  • Men Die (Random House, 1959) (Random House, 2007)

Notes

  1. ^ From PBS

References

  • Paul Auster, From Hand to Mouth: A memoir of early failure ; recounts his encounter with Doc in 1969
  • Alan Cheuse, article about Doc's books in the anthology Rediscoveries II (1988?)
  • Celia McGee, "Burgeoning Rebirth of Bygone Literary Star", The New York Times , 1/13/07
  • Gay Talese, "Looking for Hemingway", an Esquire article from the early 1960s about The Paris Review crowd, reprinted in Talese' anthology

Sources

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