Citizens in doorways answer questions with quotations from my thesis on the Actual Ox.

“After the all/share fiasco, I landed with no feet on the ground,” says Chief Francesco Manta. “I was more Rajaratnam than ever. I drove around town deleting my old liveJournals, prayer beads swinging

The Actual Ox’s every word, every blessed syllable, is chemically derived from the age and fluctuating heart rate of every diner in the food court, in a complex algorithm combing inputs from the NSX and

“Search your options portfolio for an answer,” says the voice of Gentle John, through a ceiling-mounted speaker, while the Actual Ox shares lunch with Chief Francesco Manta in the ornate basement food

Life, by this time, had straightforwarded itself. Health insurance premiums, transmitted by Owl, the silent one, oscillated through the night. Paying homage to the bottle by way of the flagon, I contain

The bird trap calls out with such desperation it must be significant not only to me but to those around me, clustering near. The village on the banks of the process can feel it; Significance spreads through

The sample of light filled the atmosphere and enveloped the Flemish village, slicing the white sky and dicing the ice into zones. There is history here among the skaters and hackey sackers. Each day is

The doctor has been called and the door is wide open and I have burns all over my legs. The key with which Isabel stabbed her father was sent to Italy around 1552, for cleaning, and returned some years

I have taken a tumble on the ice. In the video almost everyone is humble. The people are going about their winter business. The coppery, rosy sky is inhabited by finches that seem to be flinging themselves

The thing, I’ve been told, looks a bit like a fish with skirts and spoilers. Something long thought extinct from the annals of street racing. Man, if you squint with these glasses, the sun becomes a flattened

The fifth amendment, when rolled up like a telescope and put to the eye, creates a visual echo of the ring segments of series Z. Today’s separate corporate entities were once joined in an enormous orchestra.

Inside every poorly remunerated teaching assistant, there is a once busy beetle with view-screens set to “sleep”. In the first half of the last century alone, spending habits grew three years older. During

The cold war starts in October, in these parts.

Let us sample the curiously brain-shaped macro fauna discovered by paleontologist Charles the Walcott as we return to our position in the expedition. Marching into the Rockies early one Easter morning,

What drills me as I continue my maturation process, anonymously donating my sorrow to cancer research, is that you, Whisper Zero, only need to put yourself in the infinitive, and the other forms will be

Your function type may be considered to be a special case of the dependent product type, which among other properties, encompasses the idea of a polymorphic function.

I have at my call eleven ready alternatives. My personal assistants live in redbrick AGRs for sure. Considering I no longer belong to a long line of elven success stories the VP might be more interesting

The Guardian describes us as “overwhelming the margins of our functions.” CNN calls us the Bonnie and Clyde of our age. But, as seasons of murmers and undertones meander the message boards, I wonder, should

I was planning to give myself credit for the worst December of the decade but then I thought it might be more interesting to run away with you, living off the landscape paintings you appropriated from