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In the Middle of My Life
By Dana Goodyear
Ellen Cooke
By Sadie SteinThe first ghost my mother ever saw was her dead best friend. Although I’ve known about the sighting all my life, I don’t know much about Ellen herself.
The Daily
First Person
from "Misérable Miracle"
By Henri MichauxHenri Michaux, the famous French poet and painter, has long been interested in the effects of mescaline, the drug derived from the Peyotl cactus which traditionally has been taken by the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest to induce ecstatic religious visions. More recently it has attracted the interest of psychologists investigating the physical roots of mental disorder and of Aldous Huxley who describes his experiences with it in The Doors of Perception.
From the Archive, Issue 15
Miscellaneous
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The Hite Report
By Sara LautmanI like to move it, move it / I like to move it, move it / I like to move it, move it / We like to move it!
The Daily
Humor
To the Reader
By Charles BaudelaireStupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust / torment our bodies and possess our minds, / and we sustain our affable remorse / the way a beggar nourishes his lice.
From the Archive, Issue 82
Poetry
Doggerels
By Samuel Beckettwhat good the eyes / have ill seen / have let escape / close them tight / the fingers the eyes / good is back / better still
From the Archive, Issue 215
Poetry
Across the Veld
By Nadine GordimerThe combis that, sending gusts of taped reggae and mbaqanga into the traffic, transport blacks back and forth between township and city, now carry a strange cargo of whites. The street committee in the black township has advised that this is the way to bring them in, the nature of the vehicles in themselves giving the signal to the people that these envoys from outside the siege are approved.
