 | | | | | the might-have-been. And we feel scalded with rage, without knowing why, so swift has been the execution of our pride; so neat. The final part of this essay will appear in the next issue. Christopher Bernard is a founding editor of Caveat Lector. He writes poetry, fiction, and drama as well as speculative essays. His novel A Spy in the Ruins will be published by Regent Press, the first book to appear under the Caveat Lector imprint, in June 2005.  | | | |