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...many shapes and sizes and generally emit one of three kinds of waves: ultrasonic, light and microwave. When anything disturbs the waves given out by the sensors, the circuit is broken and the alarm is tripped. The sensors can be placed anywhere: in an electric socket, on a tabletop, at a window sill, under a door mat, and even in special wires of a flyscreen...
...moved once again, not far this time, to a small village schoolhouse that would serve as my home for the next ten days. Slowly my life was settling into the semblance of a routine. Morning would be announced by the crowing of the village cocks. Rising from the tabletop that served as my bed, I would strip off my clothes and don a red-and-white checkered sarong for the first of three daily baths, accomplished by the simple expedient of pouring three pails of ice-cold water over my head...
...four windows, but they were seldom opened. I was told that the danger from planes and spies was too great. In the afternoon, when the air was still and oppressive, I retreated to my tabletop and tried to sleep till the cool of the evening. Invariably, I lay wide awake, watching the rats scurry across the ceiling rafters or marveling at the industry of the hornets building their nests...
...Yourself Utopia, Want a computer? The catalogue offers a choice: a spiffy, $4,900 Hewlett-Packard tabletop model with a 19-register magnetic core memory-or a $1.95 book of instructions on how to build one yourself. Want to start a commune? The Whole Earth Catalog lists how-to books on primitive house building (adobe huts, log cabins, teepees, metal domes constructed from jettisoned auto bodies), organic farming, sewage disposal, practical sociology. It also reprints a letter from a disillusioned former commune member who writes: "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian...
...Smith moved to Bolton Landing, and during the war years, he spent most of his time at his welder's trade, working on locomotives and tanks at a nearby plant. But by 1945, he had accumulated an exquisite series of small, neo-Surrealistic bronze-and-steel tabletop tableaux. Both Home of the Welder and Reliquary House are rich with Smith's private sexual imagery...