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The Divine Comedy

Monday, June 14th, 1976

We’ve fallen into a bizarre, comical routine. The crowd knows the routine, and it begins to gather around the perimeter of my property at dawn. They bring chairs and big parasols they can stick into the ground. Don’t these people have jobs? Yesterday I noticed that there were a couple [...]

A Blind Faith Kind of Thing

Saturday, June 5th, 1976

God hates me.
It’s been a week now. I’ve spent a week out in the lettuce field pacing back and forth, waiting for some sign, looking for some inspiration, begging for just a hint. Something. Anything.
Nothing. Not a godblessed thing. Suddenly God doesn’t return my prayers. Isn’t that dandy? “The world is going to be [...]

Conner

Friday, May 28th, 1976

Frankly, I’ve got no idea where to start on this project. I decided we’d build this thing in the fallow lettuce field at the south end of our land, so I went and stood in the middle of the field all morning waiting for some sign or some inspiration or something. Where to start? I [...]

Family Meeting

Thursday, May 27th, 1976

You know, I should have known better than to think my family would be excited about this. What a bunch of whiners and complainers. I mean, you want to talk about knee-jerk negativity . . .
I describe the design specs given to me by God himself and Japheth immediately starts in with, “We’re going to [...]

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