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With gratitude I return the tiger to Charles Finney, The Unholy City; “In the midst of these variations the theme was always ingeniously and excitingly retrieved,” to Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift; “The Beatles family goes back to Jack Kerouac, etc.,” to George W. S. Trow, My Pilgrim’s Progress: Media Studies 1950–1998; “But in truth, moderns live in a world-order in which the primitive, etc.,” to Kenneth Smith, The Crypto-Revolution of Our Age XX. Power Versus Reality (Comics Journal no. 185); “Perhaps such secrets… in which the person perished,” to James Baldwin, Another Country; The New York Times as “the commissar of the real,” to Seymour Krim, What’s This Cat’s Story?; “I want it on record, right here and now… Captain’s birthday cake,” to Jane Poynter, The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2; everything else to everywhere else forever and ever amen.