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Truly we needed them all [nuclear, coal, natural gas, and oil], like a diabetic who meant to someday get healthy, but couldn’t possibly give up whisky, fruit juice, bagels and chocolate cake—because there might be a magic pill, or even an operation, to save the patient from reducing demand! In our case the pill was called technological innovation (593).

What did it say about an industry that most people depended on, that sometimes turned high profits, that was inherently dangerous to its workers, and now arguably threatened humanity itself—that it shut out writers and journalists? Thus coal, oil, nuclear, natural gas (473).

Socrates was equally irrelevant once the Athenians had served him his hemlock (363).

What was it? It was called 'stripped PPH.' Don't worry; the ever trustworthy Gary Southern pronounced it /less toxic/. I hope he poured it on his morning cereal (175).

But whatever those ceilings were, we would have hated them as infringements of our freedoms (5).

The inclusion of this extended meditation on Name (Hitler) and Number (6 million Jews) is a bold move.

And now for the capstone!

Steady onward! Book Six arrives on Tuesday.

Off to a smashing start. I swear--I will lap up anything about the plodding and meandering and desperation of budding writers!

Mein Gott!

Who cannot love Bloom's vast store of reading and consideration when he waxes large on such speculations as Shakespeare writing "Adam Unparadised"?

And now, a novel inspired by Ovid’s masterpiece.