A sign indicates; a symbol penetrates. Shooting pains down your left arm is a sign to cut your jog short today, perhaps to see a doctor; waking up consistently at 3 in the morning indicates depression. Sometimes signs go beyond…
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World Number One is darkness, life feeding on itself, forms eating other forms until they are eaten themselves. In this world, everything born is fated to be eaten by something—wild animals, vultures, insects, worms, microscopic bacteria, cancer cells. Every living…
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Another New Advancement of Civilization They gouged the mountain for a power line. Not much of a brown strip compared to the whole green of it. The trouble is, now when I look at that mountain, the gouge is all…
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What I used to call my first memory was the time my sister and I (ages five and two) walked up the road to a gas station and bought a bottle of pop. I know it was a real memory,…
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In your interview with David Schiffman [Issue 138], I found myself again and again troubled by his responses to your questions. Why? Was I envious? Here was a man exactly my own age, who, by his own self-portrait, had evolved…
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