Sharing Party Secrets

The Lobster Claw Clasp

J fails, among other things, beyond this: "the lobster claw clasp...an all-night jag about the neck ...making way for the catcalls, sure in the ballast...tacking an extent of canvas..."

J likes the sound of cruciverbiste and other arcana.

J presents with Pisces in 4th house.

J returns to her reading of trojan clot-buster and wage labor.

J sets the Travelocity rolodeck, the fragranced fluid atomizers to Lisbon.

J cannot receive shipments from the UK.

J would like to take her National Geographic supplement to the staff educators, and once and for all, perish any opinions around her reluctance to read in Lead III.





Delvaux's Paysage aux lanternes (1958)

Passages from The Neurotic's Handbook (Where Applicable)

The Very Nervous Person's Guide to Life in the Modern World, Including Blind Dates, Shallow Breathing, Alien Cultures, New Year's Eve, Touching the Bottom of the Lake with Your Feet, Appendix Operations, True Love, and
Just About Anything Else You Can Think Of By Charles A. Monagan

Fifteen Observations Regarding the Social and Personal Behavior of Neurotics
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5. If there is one chance in a million of making a mistake, a neurotic will not call another person by name.
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15. If neurotics have to get up particularly early in the morning they will set the alarm clock, check it again ten minutes later to make sure it is set, wake up in the middle of the night to check it again (and make sure the electricity hasn't gone off) , and then wake up two minutes before the alarm was set to ring anyway.

Your Neurotic Household Questions Answered

3. Q. I always get mixed up between eaves and gables and am afraid of using the wrong word in otherwise
informed conversation. What's the difference?
A. There isn't any--they're just French and English words for the same thing. We call them dormers here in the
U.S.A..

The Collegiate Neurotic

2. The second group of collegiate neurotics comprises those who go through a half-dozen or so complete personality changes in the course of the four years. These are the students who are so undecided about themselves and their futures that they react to college society as if it were a succession of masquerade parties, and to the curriculum as if it were a penny candy display. It seems merely a matter of luck and timing as to whether they leave school as future brain surgeons, tree surgeons, or Moonies.
These people embrace each new thing (a particular brand of beer, a dance step, sociology) with initial enthusiasm and eventual disillusionment. They try on majors as others might try on shoes: looking for something that fits and is practical yet stylish. They do not wish to make any decision regarding the future because if it turns out to be the wrong one they will have no one to blame but themselves. They hope that if they try enough approaches, the correct course of life will become obvious, It never becomes obvious.

Default Time

Kentucky Bluebird

Naturally Curious Captioning

Kiki Smith's Constellation and a nod to Curious George

A lecturer of medical pharmacology. Dr. Robert John Thornton's Temple of Flora enlisted the finest British engravers, a project that eventually left him destitute.

Walton Ford rejected the idea of becoming another Audubon; rejecting animal subjects completely. Naturally shot by its naturalist, this flamingo is animal iconography utterly devoid of any sentimentality.

Arrangements ornementaux et en guirlandes de diverses coquilles de mollusques
Dutch pharmacist Albertus Seba obtained his specimens from Amsterdam's sailors and ship surgeons.