“My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.”

                     --Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table, 1997

“AFTER MINUTES THAT ARE ETERNITIES, SHE REACHES HER DESTINATION, BLINKS AT A LIGHT THAT STINGS HER EYES, AND WHEN HER VISION CLEARS, GASPS…COLORS AND BRIGHTNESS AND SOUNDS AND A SUBTLE PERFUME SUCH AS SHE HAS NEVER IMAGINED…HER HEART POUNDS AND SHE GROWS DIZZY WITH JOY–! SO UTTERLY TRANSPORTED IS SHE THAT AT FIRST SHE IS NOT AWARE OF A HUMAN VOICE–A VOICE SCREAMING…”

                     --Denny O'Neil, TIME WARP, Vol. 1, No. 3, 
                            "Rites of Spring," 1979

(Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”)