life in a vacuum

October 15, 2002

So after I posted that I went back and wrote like 600 words, including a bit with a ladder that I think is somewhat funny—even though the funny bit is there, quite transparently, in order to make the subsequent awful part even more awful. We're better, sort of.

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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.