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So, if you are ridiculous, then, you elect a stuffed animal… to pilot a giant passenger pigeon-jet, with 335 million people in it, but first, you set it on fire, and then call a figment of your imagination to deal with the blaze as it rises off the runway of its...

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Honestly, folks, you’d be FAR better off if you’d elected the Penguin or the Riddler… or Bugs Bunny.

000496

In my late 20’s I began to write a novel in which the vast majority of the US had become prisons. The ultra-rich, lived in militarily protected enclaves… lives of unimaginable luxury. There was a class of technicians, who served them, and these were...

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In the sound of morning’s brighter silences the breeze you have your fingers Gone in a love departed long and dearer still for all its distance you use my Mouth to form words I’ve never spoken, colors in my breathing I haven’t found That secret sigil...

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I’ve been reading John Mack’s “Nightmares and Human Conflict” lately. It’s a rather clinical/psychological exploration of nightmares. I’ve read rather broadly in psychological literature over some 30 years. The other night, as I was...

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I imagine going to a doctor who says ‘Well, something is definitely wrong, and, although we’re not sure what it is, it’s clearly a result of you having organs. So let’s get rid of those, as quickly as possible. We’re confident that this...