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"Pulp fiction jumped the semiotic shark when conspiracy fantasies like Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum became more or less indistinguishable from the actual conspiracy theories being peddled in Fate Magazine."

I find myself quoted (on page 173) on JSTOR--two years ago. Since then (2003?), of course, our knowledge has grown astronomically, & there's even a website. about them. My original article.

The Great [Klingon] Palindrome Contest.

"whether it's the wind
or the length of your silence
that brings this chill
I watch another leaf
fall from the autumn sky

--Thelma Mariano in Tanka Splendor 2001

Beautifully reversing pattern.