in the city of the future

November 5, 2001

I am self-sufficient; I am making progress; I lack nothing.

So it's 1954 and W.H. Auden is reviewing The Fellowship of the Ring. What's not to love? Other than Auden's surprisingly clunky prose, that is.

And there's rather a lot of weed trying to get across the border, but it is stymied, ay; and Palo Alto tries to put a $2,000 laptop on its list of school stupplies. Good God, that city.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.