Human beings are variables. Failure to grasp this fact is the major failing of all Utopian visions regardless of their provenance, for such fantasies assume humanity can be controlled, made predictable, guided.
Case in point: Four whores from New Orleans should find no haven in a small Virginia town, yet this is precisely what we [...]

Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Zsallia
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Chapter 8
?[Begin Journal entry]?
10 November 2004
Jacqueline Novak is dying.
On the flight from Harrisburg I find my mind running over my telephone conversations with Jacqueline’s husband, Dennis, again and again. He is distraught almost beyond words, and when he realizes all his family are scattered literally to the four corners of the Earth, he [...]

Posted on May 1st, 2007 by Zsallia
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