The most surprising Winnowing was a gramophone record of the music from the film Synanon, which you may not know existed, and I certainly didn't before coming across the album in a secondhand vinyls bin. Although I think they were still being called records in those days.
Seeing it again, leaning against the four grey white archival boxes in the MB3 Archive in Toddington was a bit of a non sequitor experience, as the album itself kind of is: a transient moment of exploitation of addictions and therapeutic community in popular culture. Just look at that illustration, with the wild jazz musicians at the pinnacle, and the eye guided by design down a cascade of titillations to the redacting black box covering the needle. Imagine the production discussions that must have flown around about that needle..."a titillation too far"... "Cover up that..."
Finding this improbable object in a used records store in England was so exciting and threw up so many questions to be answered by someone. It became a star accession into the specialist subsection devoted to Synanon in the special section of the Library devoted to addictions.
As I did in those days, 2005, I shared the details of this specialist subsection on the Therapeutic Community Open Forum website, in WEB EXTENSION 1: "New in the Library", here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050827230657/http://www.tc-of.net/webex/webex1.htm. A comprehensive list of books, a dissertation, and of course, an LP.
If you visit, scroll down the page past other lists of acquisitions to the entry of 22.2.2005. Everything on this page has now been dispersed, of course.
