Luminance 
From the annals of malwear and Glenda White, uproarious recollections of wardrobe malfunction:
Choir Story: Revenge of the Girdle
Carmen, Sophia & Me
In our premiere issue, the incomparable Willis Quick piloted a first-class flight into the nineteenth century and the antics of strong men and women animating the topsy-turvy rise of river town Leeland, Illinois. It's a new age featuring new dramatis personae, but Leeland still harbors its Cosgroves, always at the center of intrigue. . .
P.I. Richard Poole Gets Into a Big Batch of Trouble
Beyond the twilight zones of provincial thought, past the Wooden Oak of Hollowness and across the Parking Lot of Damned Old Flivvers, deep in the JPT Outer Provinces most surreal, looms ye aulde Galloping Tortoise Tavern, where imbibers mull their murky eavesdroppings, the half-heard soulbearings and remonstrations of voices behind them or worlds away. Nicholas Shaner strikes a glancing blow for the uncertainty principle, for poetry as prose, and not least for booze in yer shooz with
Conversation Overheard One Night at the
Galloping Tortoise Tavern.
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ATTENTION--CRITICALÂ INFORMATION--ATTENTION--CRITICALÂ INFORMATI
UNDERSTANDING BLIVETS AND HOW TO USE THEM
While most of us have little need for the technical uses of the common blivet, sometimes it may be necessary to at least understand its operation. It is like a fire extinguisher (only easier to spell) or a computer: when you need one, nothing else will do. This is not to imply that you might need a standard military-issue blivet (DY1-007B1A, 10 lbs. of sh*t, in 5 lb. container, field operations for the use of) or a
The illustration below of the simplest and most common garden-variety blivet now available in the open market shows how difficult it is to apprehend the blivet and its manifold applications. It operates in a vacuum, by counter-intuitive means, powered by sources not traceable in daily life. This has led some historians to believe it is the root story behind Ezekial's wheel (way up in de middle ob de air) which operated by the Grace of God. Setting theology aside, most reputable physicists and engineers explain the operation of the basic blivet as an anomaly created by chutzpah in the intersection of wishful thinking and hope deferred.
STANDARD CIVILIAN-ISSUE BLIVET
Recent cultural histories trace the blivet to the appearance of one Kilroy (anon.) in the mid-1940s, and his mysterious tale is fully documented and its technical intricacies explained as a mis-drawing of a band-pass filter schematic in Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963), a vast novel also sometimes suspected of being a military-issue blivet, since it weighs in excess of 5 lbs. In any event, blivets should not be operated without careful study and understanding of the accompanying operations and service manual, and only adults of good standing in their communities should attempt blivet operation. Please notify the National Transportation Safety Administration (NTSA) when you intend to commence blivet operation, so they can track your progress on their instrumentation. Do not operate in excessively crowded urban conditions, at night or in inclement weather.
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