skull

Mark Flaum mflaum at softhome.net
Fri Aug 4 18:30:44 CDT 2000


"Just because they found Martin Bormann's skull doesn't mean he's 
dead, my best beloved; for everyone knows that competent observers 
from every neutral country have reported sighting an old man in 
Argentina whose head is wrapped in bandages, and only the hunted eyes 
show, winking and blinking beneath the thousands of cranial 
splints;..."

-William T. Vollmann, _You Bright and Risen Angels_

Opening lines, of course.  Couldn't resist.

Mark Flaum



'Decisions are never made - at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of
peeves, whims, hallucinations, and general assholery' - GR



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