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A Pliny pattern persists. The scientific side of the observer's mind demands objective evidence, as the great naturalist usually did; but the brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these...
A few hours later, after well-wishers staring dreamily out their windows had brought the seniors hot chocolate and cookies, the statue got a windswept coiffe and Elvis Presley, it was said, was still alive and in the Quad.
I woke up on Wednesday or Thursday--I can't remember which, it seems all a blur to me now--and it was 55 degrees outside. The sun blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis...
"I will not say Elvis Presley," Knowles joked.
Yeah, sure--but wasn't it a wonderful life? It sure looks swell on TV. You'll see the infant Beatles in matching leather outfits (Lennon: "We looked like four Gene Vincents, or tried to"). Lennon talks of his love for Elvis--"a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his...