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Started wondering if you can still buy trilobites. (They used to be unbelievably cheap. [p. 26])

--Awhile back i proposed a book written with mismatched halves. It appears that such has already been written! "Michael Korda...was working as an editor at Simon & Schuster, and a few years ago he wrote a memoir of those days, entitled Another Life. ...Harold Robbins...started writing one book to get the advance, wrote half of it, and put it aside. When he needed the money, he finished it, but he'd forgotten much of the first part, and so the second part had an inconsistent plot with mostly different characters. Asked what to do about it, he said, 'Leave it.' (Korda is too professional to say which, but I believe it was The Pirate.)" —Arthur Hlavaty in Derogatory Reference (now Nice Distinctions) 3 via Xvarenah 9-14-03

Snowstorm.

      "AYE-AYE

   Daubentonia madagascariensis

an eerie messenger dressed in obsidian,
its orange irises near-incandescent, as radiant as gemstones,
it meanders, murmuring, in a dim arbor:

a somber, taciturn demigod,
unseen, near-insane,
as enigmatic as a secret code;

disturbed dreamer,
strange astronomer,
grim insomniac;

a sinister, misunderstood simian,
damned ambassador to an ancient underground nation,
it digs at grubs, one digit as enormous as an antenna;

it rises at moonrise,
as a red moon rises,
and murders us in our dreams"

—Luke Bradford

This is me when the orange one kicks it.