The Magic Wok: A Recipe For Reading The Future

The Magic Wok

First Step: Find one huge and hard-shelled monster,
preferably not defunct.

Second Step: If not defunct, arrange. Ponder what a long life
you are bringing to an end.

Third Step: Apply red-hot iron poker to cool carapace.


It should crack in a hundred different places.

From which the near future will emerge.

After a fashion.

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Eisenstein In Las Vegas

Zhdanov: You are overly fascinated by shadows, Comrade. And the beard, the beard--so much head-raising to show off the beard.

Eisenstein: I confess to the shadows. Is this an ideological failing, Comrade?

Zhdanov: No. It distracts from the action, that's all. Too much psychologism.

Eisenstein: I see. But the beard and the head-raising--do they have to go too, Comrade?


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