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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.