Sublime

Jack Isidore is a ‘crap artist’ who lives with his sister, Fay, and her husband, Charley Hume, in Seville, California in the late 1950s. He collects worthless objects and is prone to unusual beliefs such as the existence of telepathy, flying saucers and the idea that the world will end on 23 April 1959. However, the main narrative concerns the

One-thousand or two-thousand words every day for the next twenty years. At the start, you might shoot for one short story a week, fifty-two stories a year, for five years. You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the necessary work done.

inchoate

indelible

triplicated.

On March 17, 1941, however, when I visited Campbell’s office, he read me the following quotation from an early essay entitled “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God.” Campbell said, “I think

Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance,