2010 :: Issue 6/Spring :: Micro Essays
The Fall and Rise of Nobody’s America
(S–U)
Carlos Reyes
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Back to the Beginning Nothing’s what it used to be, said Fred Habit makes the self go round, said Marcy More hoops, said Von Höllen |
Nostalgia Is My Home On the way to© Metapherein Corp. There are no roundtrip tickets© Herakleitos Airlines Transition is my middle, my last and my first© Samekh X Transit. |
The Fugitive Also Desires the Pursuer To want or not to want, that is the WS CG Shadowchaser MT searching for MT something MT to drop everything MT for |
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| Science Fiction | Technotopia. | ||||
| Seniors | Golden nightmare. | ||||
| Sensationalism | Torn between titillation and oblivion. | ||||
| Sex | Still sells. (The indefatigable denial of disillusionment.) | ||||
| Show Time | Show me the money. | ||||
| Sign from God |
Elvis sighting. Grilled cheese Madonna. |
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| Sims | Who’s playing us? | ||||
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Sitcoms (See Laugh Tracks.) |
Easily amused. | ||||
| Sleep Debt | Merit badge. | ||||
| Slow | Opposite of go. | ||||
| Socialists | Bad. | ||||
| Speed | Doesn’t matter where we’re going as long as we get there faster. | ||||
| Stock Market | Numerology. | ||||
| Success | = Happiness. (Unquestionable conflation of the American dream.) | ||||
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Scientia Supersexualis SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA YINYANGYES YINYANGYES Ø |
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| Technomania | Pathophobia (Escapology). | ||||
| There | Where the bad things are. | ||||
| Time | Where time is money is not a metaphor. | ||||
| Time Famine | Now is nowhere to be found. | ||||
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Transversatility TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA YINYANGYES YINYANGYES Ø |
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| Utopia | Neveralwaysland. | ||||
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Uturnity UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA YINYANGYES YINYANGYES Ø |
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