I wanted to write a book like
Frederick Turner's A Border of Blue:
Along the Gulf of Mexico from the Keys to
the Yucatan. Well, then, go ahead and do it.
What's stopping you? You're on social security.
You have time off for unemployment. You have some savings from
an economic-stimulus-program trickle-down grant writing training courses
for the WPA Writers Project. For a defense contractor, rather. The old
military-industrial-academic complex Ike warned about in his other warning,
the one about "task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields."
Men staring at goats to make them die. Thoughts have wings, say the Rosicrucians.