"Attempting to achieve perfection in art seems to be the passive aggressive way we express failing to achieve perfection in reality"- Woody Allen
Just Imagine,
Imagine setting out
Without sails, maps, or compass to claim
Every continent and two-bit desert island
From here to Bimini and the North Pole,
Trusting the wind to toss your starving party
Onto a sandy void a world away.
And then to settle down and make a life
Complete with language, gods, and table manners
Out of an empty waste … .
—Paul Lake, from “The Century Killer,” from issue 113, Winter II 1989
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