| New Year |
"Though
we seem to desire knowledge of the future..." |
| Next Step, The |
"The Twentieth Century is the last time that human technology..." |
| Nigerian 419 Scam or Hiding in Plain Sight, The |
"It is generally agreed that Nigerian 419 scams are so obviously fake that..." |
| None
So Blind |
"Tapping
her four-sense way down the street..." |
| North
is Up |
"Maps
are drawn as though the cartographer were God..." |
| Novus Ordo Seclorum (1) |
"...in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. .." |
| Once
Burned, Twice Shy |
"TRACKING
AROUND with my grandfather through the mountains
of Southern Oregon..." |
| One
in a Thousand |
"SEND
25 CENTS and two boxtops from Rice Krispies..." |
| One of Us |
"MY
COMPANION ASKED what I'd been doing over the
weekend." |
| One
Room Schoolhouse |
"I
ATTENDED KINDERGARTEN in a one room schoolhouse... |
| On
the Death of a Cheerleader |
"Six
feet tall and a real beauty. Long stemmed, full
bosomed, blonde with big blue eyes..." |
| On The Inefficiency of Beauty Contests... |
"Rather than the subjective, whimsical evaluations..." |
| Original Sin |
"There is no Original Sin, there is no Devil and there is no Garden of Eden..." |
| Palimpsest
|
"SHORTAGE
OF MATERIALS and contempt for earlier texts have
long encouraged..." |
| The
Pallbearer... |
"Come
take me now, I have no time to waste..." |
| Paper
Anniversary |
"Paper
covers rock, rock breaks scisors, scissors cuts
paper." |
| Pasiphae |
Neither gods nor men have any control over their destinies. All serve... |
| Peanut
Joy |
"THIS
MORNING my pet rabbit was sitting on her favorite
bunny-bottom-shaped bald spot..." |
| Pecca Fortiter |
"ONE
OF THE MORE intriguing heresies of the early
Church..." |
| Photo Album |
"Looking through a family photo
album, dreading the inevitable onset of war..." |
| Photographic
Memory |
"Photography
was invented as a monochrome process, and until
the mid-1960s..." |
| Pirate Radio |
"In 1958, shortly after my family had moved from rural Sacramento to urban Oakland..." |
| Plague
of Flies |
"Miss
Pop was a tall, skinny enemy of humanity who..." |
| Play Ball!
|
"BASEBALL
IS A PROTESTANT SECT. A 19th century American
offshoot of Calvinist individualism..." |
|
Pling-Pling Man, The |
"AT
GOLD'S THIS MORNING I finished my final set of
squats, but when I went on to deadlifts ..." |
| Plus Ça
Change |
"TWO
COPS come up to me as I'm sitting at the Author's
Table in a tent..." |
| Post-Industrial
Post-Literacy |
"WHEN
writing was invented, it provided people with
the ability to transcend their own limited lives..." |
| Post Hoc
|
"WHEN
I WAS a job printer we'd sit down and read the
finished book when it came back...
" |
| Potsherds
|
"SOCIAL
ANIMALS THRIVE amongst their number and, in a
significant way..." |
| Pre-Telescopic
Sighting of the Crescent Venus |
"On
September 25, 1991, between 6:15 and 6:45am local
time in Padua and while travelling..." |
| Primate
Grooming |
"People
are not content with the way God made them." |
| Princess Soapy and the Courteous Peasant |
"One
morning Princess Soapy put on her finery and
walked down the path..." |
| Procrustean
Bed |
"NEAR
ELEUSIS, in Attica, there lurked a bandit named
Damastes, called Procrustes..." |
| Psychoceramics
|
"JUST
HOW CRAZY do you have to be to be crazy? Do you
actually have to be barking mad..." |
| Quid
Pro Quo |
"This
morning at seven oclock they hitched me up to
the machine, turned on the vcr..." |
| Quiet
And Dark |
"THE
darkroom is a pleasant place, cool and quiet.
When the door is closed..." |
| Quis
Custodiet Ipsos Custodes |
"Particularly
regarding the rights, duties and responsibilities
of the Citizen to forestall..." |
| Rabbit
God, The |
"At the beginning of
the world the animal gods gathered to fill the
land and sea and sky..." |
| Red-Blooded American Guy |
"Every altruistic action has an equal and opposite selfish motive....." |
| Reluctant
Hero |
"HIS
PARALYZING STUTTER evaporated in fountains of
passionate eloquence...." |
| Resident
Alien |
"HE'S
STRANGE to me and I'm strange to him. Strange
is as strange does..." |
| Reunion
|
"WE
THOUGHT IT WAS LOST; gone for good. Probably
laying in the sand..." |
| Roamin'
Alphabet |
"The
quaint notion that there is a right and a wrong..." |
