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...Nature will lay buried a great time," said Bacon, "and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation." Evidently, though, nature is more palatable to the conscience in the form of a cyclone than dressed as human savagery. Better to suffer the weather than to be the weather. Yet the mystery is the same. The people of Bangladesh will puzzle over a universe that periodically marks them for annihilation, but perhaps they will puzzle no less than the fellow from Liverpool who, sober, asks simply, "What got into me?" The abiding fear for everyone is that nothing got in that...
...truckers are lining up for seconds at the breakfast buffet (all you can eat for $3.99 -- biscuits with chipped-beef gravy, fruit cup, French toast with syrup, bacon, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, doughnuts, Danish, cereal in little boxes...
...Oklahoma. A recycled Stuckey's with blue tile roof calls itself simply Truck Stop. The sign also boasts showers, scales, truck wash and a special on service for $88.50. At a table inside, four truckers have ordered a short stack and three eggs apiece, along with bacon, sausage and coffee (Trucker's Superbreakfast...
Eating has at times given him the dimensions of an outdoor sanitary facility. "People say George Foreman eats a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon for breakfast. That's a lie. I eat eleven eggs." He is trying to lose 45 lbs. to get down to an ideal 225. "It's sad. You work all your life to make it, and then...
Another feasible explanation is that the Action Man is not single man, but a committee, much like Homer or Shakespeare is sometimes suspected to be, isnot I Francis Bacon, though...