Consider the Citizen
The editor of ‘The Pale King’, Michael Pietsch – “Would you agree to revisit that scene in the elevator and help us understand who those people are and why they’re there, and, for God’s sake, cut some...
View ArticleThe Average Molecular Weight of Peat
I think it’s probably best if I go ahead and tell you, right up front here, that the title of this post is a little misleading. I do not know the average molecular weight of peat. It’s not like I...
View ArticleOn Desk Names, the job of identity and the identity of the job
Take everything ever written, thought or felt about the relationship between work and personal identity. Condense it into a page. That page is Section 18. ‘And Desk Names are back…. Instead of your...
View ArticleWhat he really had to fear was fear of the fear, like an endless funhouse of...
Skipping briefly ahead to the novella-length §22, we spend time with a first-person narrator who is suddenly struck by his ability to “double”; that is, to not only perceive the world around him, but...
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