Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

It will all end very badly, Gus

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.