Babies Are Not Brought By Storks And

The Lullaby Is The Spell Whereby The Mother Attempts To Transform Herself Back From An Ogre To A Saint.

Hearing That The Same Men Who Brought Us 'south Park' Were Mounting A Musical To Be Called 'the Book Of Mormon,' We Were Tempted To Turn Away, As From An Inevitable Massacre.

When We Study Shakespeare On The Page, For Academic Purposes, We May Require All Kinds Of Help. Generally, We Read Him In Modern Spelling And With Modern Punctuation, And With Notes. But Any Poetry That Is Performed - From Song Lyric To Tragic Speech - Must Make Its Point, As It Were, Without Reference Back.

Saigon Was An Addicted City, And We Were The Drug: The Corruption Of Children, The Mutilation Of Young Men, The Prostitution Of Women, The Humiliation Of The Old, The Division Of The Family, The Division Of The Country-it Had All Been Done In Our Name. . . . The French City . . . Had Represented The Opium Stage Of The Addiction. With The Americans Had Begun The Heroin Phase.

I Prefer Writing In The Mornings, So To That Extent I Have A Routine. I Do Reading And Other Things In The Afternoon.