much bad news it's enough to make an optimist greedy. After all, with this much horror there is caused only for danse macabre celebrations. 1985. Only 15 years left before the digital watch rolls over. before the cannon with the flower pops out. Those forward looking voyeurs of hundred years back must have felt cheated when mentally reversing their lot with the denizens of the 20th century. In 1885, you could only gripe about the aging process of a single tenth of one component. In 1985, you've got that and the Millenia. Trendy things like atmospheric pressure, negative ions, adverse body rhythms and a welter of other pseudo impressive formula abound to help out in your witchhunt.  Surprise. 1066 saw comets, omens. signs coded in stars speeding across the sky -- a host of ditlurbing. natural phenomena to boot. The vigilant saw meteors at Caesar's, death. The National Enquirer predicts Australia will break into the sea. Californians will be upstaged. The futurists will all need waterwings. The Club of Rome hints the next years auger more chilling holocausts. Everywhere, survival scenarios proliferate. Pro-lifers will rearrange proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic. Soothsayers will become all the rage as we plot myriad escapes. A year's supply of canned goods, anyone? 1885 has a lot to teach us. Umbrellas, a gentle ennui like fine mist compounded by traffic in & out of the Moulin Rouge. Perhaps a surfeit of absinthe helps just as its equivalent does today. "Cheer up, there will always be an England" doesn't sound so bad after all. And there's always that one recruiting poster, "What did you do in the Great War, daddy"? 11, 12, 13 Back to the Contents Page 

 

HAMOMLETTE

A VICTIM OF INDIGESTION OR PATRICIDE? MAGIC PAN: CASTLE OF ELSINORE CHEF: THE MAD PRINCE OF DENMARK INGREDIENTS: THE TRAGEDY OF THE HUMAN CONDITION, SENSELESS FORCES THAT RAGE AND DESTROY A MAN COOKING INSTRUCTIONS: SIMMER SLOWLY A PERFECT SOUFFLE - ALAS POOR YORICK I KNEW HIM WELL... 14 Back to the Contents Page 

 

THE EAST IS RED

We can survive a nuclear War. It's scarcely credible, I know, but listen. The human race has great resilience. We've come back before --  all those plagues, the Black Death, despoliations, scorched earth policies "prove" it. We're proliferate and we love the sex act. It won't be hard; human fecundity is a count-on. There are so many of us, see. People have overestimated the alleged horror. After all, (Khruschev pounding a UN table with his shoes). somebody walked 

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