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...that bottle, going against the stars, with the position of every star fixed? I must have been mad! But on the other hand, I wasn't mad. We were so into it that it was important. And even though people might not be specifically aware of that kind of detailed thinking, you can sense it in the finished product. This didn't just happen, it wasn't just thrown down, it was conceived and contrived to be exactly what...
...State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's Spider-Man fights used to happen in and around. So it's always been this kind of exotic babylon. And that's so for Alan as well. We used to get the American comics imported, and it wasn't just the stories, it was the whole thing of Tootsie Rolls and Schwinn bicycles. This is the kind of thing we'd talk about for hours...
...small town's Dionysian "Dirty Day" festival: "Those bulging sacks on the cart contain moist soil and live ants, the big, juicy, biting kind, bred and nurtured especially for tonight's extravaganza. Apparently, the ants are sprinkled with vinegar just before the main event, to get them really angry. An army of ant scatterers emerges from behind us, each one with a bag of the anty soil, which they launch into the air above our heads. Screams go up as the sky fills with soil and very annoyed ants...Everyone is maniacally scraping mud and insects from their hair...
Water: Clean water out of the tap is one of the great innovations of the modern age - and something that billions of people in the rest of the world lack. But if you live on the right kind of land, you can dig your own well - as more than 17 million Americans currently do. The process is simple - dig a hole into the ground and get a pump that will pull out the water. Generally the deeper you drill, the better the water - but the cost can range from $3,000 to $15,000 depending on how far down...
...shows dissension in the UC.”Flores said she is considering running with someone who is not a UC representative because she believes that “bringing in an outsider will break the UC’s inner political circle, and will give students a new kind of advocate.”—Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...