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James Blasingame interviewed Gary Paulsen by e-mail.
James: For those members of our audience who don't live in the country, would you explain what an electric fence is, and, if it is a psychiatric possibility, explain why in the world adolescent boys would be compelled to pee on one? As far as you know, do they still do this?
Gary: Electric fences exist, officially, to keep livestock penned in. They are a single wire charged with high-voltage, pulsing electricity. They've got enough juice to all but obliterate anything organic that touches it; they were called weed burners when I was a boy, and they'll put a several-hundred-pound sow on her back if she brushes against it. In reality, electric fences are magnets for young (and not so young if you didn't get it out of your system in childhood) boys. I wrote about peeing on an electric fence...
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