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...experience its poetry swimming in your head when buying a bagel, or getting your car??s engine fixed, or walking along the esplanade. To mouth its words as you pass bemused fellow-pedestrians in Harvard Square who make sure to keep an extra meter or two between themselves and you. To grimace, to weep, at all hours when the power of its words finally strike with insight like a bolt of lightning. To keep a copy nearby at all times when you need to go back to it like a narcotic addiction. To bore friends and family with...
After a few weeks in the oven, I’ve learned to adapt. I no longer leave the house without a bottle of water, even if in a well-air conditioned car??they overheat (I learned this the hard way a few miles outside of town). I always keep Chap Stick and moisturizing lotion with me, following a few painful days of split lips and peeling fingers. And by no means will every sunburn turn into a golden tan—it may peel and leave your New England skin as pale as always. The backbones...
...Stopping for a glass of juice in the kitchen, Cappy remembers to leave his 18-year-old brother a note telling him that he has taken the car. He thinks if it’s gone his brother might call the cops.“He comes home, the car??s missing, I would [call the police],” Cappy says, indicating that the gentrification of Somerville is perhaps not yet complete. He spots a bottle of Seagram’s whiskey on his desk and grabs it before we leave...
...presentation at the Boston Museum of Science last week I used cartoons to lighten things up. What is important to understand, however, is that when time travel does happen there will have to be strict government regulation. Everything has a good and a negative side to it. Even your car??it’s great to have it, but it could be used to run someone over. So, ultimately there will be things like Timecops, but that will have to be very tightly regulated by the government. I’d love to think that someone could travel...
Only the return of the car??s owner—prestigious law professor Charles Ogletree, as it turns out—ends the short, unhappy bout with Benz-sitting. Ogletree gives us a lift back to Cambridge, where we find the Gellis family Volvo waiting...