Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
urely rise again, no matter how hard the Republicans try to scare us into b-
  

    
lowing card chaff all over our salads." Henry winced, remembering the
last time he'd got chaff stuck between his t-
  

    
oes.  He had to run two miles on the beach to be finally f-
  

    
amished enough to even want salad, especially since the ingredients included
cheese weeds and r-
  

    
ecycled greens, the only kind I'll eat since my doctor warned me about c-
  

    
hlorophyll buildup. There was a story about it recently in the Weekly
World News, too--Swamp Thing and The Hulk are both classic cases,
typified by their g-
  

    
eneral tendencies to shift gears in the middle of a story, thereby causing
quite a s-
  

    
naggle-tooth busted-clutch stink of synesthesia.  This story, however
ha-
  

    
rd to swallowm, is the truth, dammit!  I couldn't make this up, even if I t-
  

    
ied writhing worms to the tops of my feet. N-
  

    
ancy, on the other hand, found it to be quite a r-
  

    
evealing exercise, back when her name was McGill, d-
  

    
isguised as a Steston-sportin' raccoon with a limp and a bad attitude.  Re-
  

    
publican all the way, that raccoon; might even run for President
someday, just you watch. Doesn't like greens, though, or n-
  

    
achos, either.  He's a mass of contradictions, and we can expect his gov-
  

    
erness to stand for all the problems he's caused with his bal-
  

    
loons that were filled with good old-fashioned lung air instead of that
newfangled h-
  

    
olographic vapor that passes for m-
  

    
umbles, such are promises.  A-
  

    
ccordingly, we are introducing legislation this week to criminalize truth-t
  

    
elling while blowing balloons online or applying electrodes to n-
  

    
ervous volunteers down at the Neuro Lab.  A group of doctoral candidates c-
  

    
onvened recently to study the effect of helium on elecrified g-
  

    
entlemen.  Dubbing the lab, the "Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company," they
d-
  

    
ecided to set that to music and put on a s-