PART ONE

Spent some time feelin' inferior Standin! in front of a mirror Combed my hair in a thousand ways But I came out lookin' just the same

— Rod Stewart

That month off did me a lot of good, I think, and I hope it�ll show up here.

There are certain times when everyone�s thinking has a certain congruence: our concern right now, for example, seems to be with fascism. Control vectors seem to converge on every side and almost all the people I know feel wedged in by it. Not immobilized but really wedged.