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2

· 23 (number), 232
· 23 skidoo, 232

4

· 404 errors (larger significance of), 27

1

· 1776 (book), 339
· 1984, 140

A

· Abandonment law, 321
· Abnormal, 138
· Aboriginal, 138
· Academia, 69
· Achievement, 129
· Acid rain, 176
· Action, 129
· Actors, 65
· Addiction, 198
· Adolescence, 331
· Advertisement, 65
· Advertising, 103
· Advice, 29, 62
· Aesthetics, 93, 324
· Age, 228
· Agony columns, 70
· Air, 159
· Alarm clocks, 193
· Alcohol, 93
· Alternate realities (paradigms of), 337
· Alternative post-apocalyptic scenarios, 135
· Altoids, 9
· Amateur philosophy, 141
· Amateur sports, 70
· America, 72, 153
· American history, 339
· Amherst, 98
· Anagrams, 9
· Ancient good, 95
· Angels, 19
· Anglican funeral, 67
· Animist leanings, 63
· Antisemitism, 26
· Apologies, 140
· Appliances, 337
· Archbishop of Canterbury, 12
· Archival, 339
· Armageddon, 79
· Arrgh, 154
· Art, 69
· Articulate discussion, 328
· Artistic identities, 352
· Ascii, 34
· Aspen Idea Festival, 328
· Aspirations, 159
· Attempts at being merciful, 46
· Attic project, 6, 7, 47
· Audio clips, 186, 328
· August miles, 94
· Autobiographical notes, 100, 132
· Autumn, 97, 335
· Autumn's shore, 168
· Autumn colors peak, 97
· Awkwardness, 73, 69, 82, 102
· Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 328

B

· Bachelorly self-sufficiency, 37
· Backlit screens, 337
· Back muscles, 50
· Back roads, 96
· Bad days, 22
· Badge of authenticity, 143
· Bad weather, 16
· Barnabas, 49
· Barn fire, 39
· Baroque, 324
· Bars, 204
· Bean stalks (metaphorical), 331
· Beauty, 69, 355
· Bedrooms, 7
· Beeheaded rules, 72, 73
· Beer cans, 340
· Beethoven, 137
· Being born, 201
· Being in love, 329
· Belief, 321
· Berries and butters, 29
· Best buy, 198
· Bible, 19
· Bill Murray (actor), 345
· Billboards, 208
· Bingo, 2
· Biography, 232
· Birds, 46, 202, 227
· Birdshot, 93
· Birthday, 58, 128
· Bitter lips, 176
· Black spot, 154
· Black swans, 324
· Blessed stars, 322
· Blights, 176
· Blogging, 337
· Blood-letting, 5, 99
· Bloody mass, 153
· Blueprints, 6
· Blushing, 29
· Board games, 154
· Bobby & Steve's (gas station), 174
· Body paint, 38
· Bones, 86, 99
· Books, 207, 320
· Bookstores, 57
· Boots, 51
· Borrowed clothes, 332
· Bottled water, 174
· Boundaries between the physical and intangible, 27
· Boxes, 108
· Boyhood, 102
· Brass, 200
· Brazen symbols of disaster, 177
· Breathing, 159
· Brevity, 93
· Bridge collapses, 174
· Brimson, 136
· Broadcasting, 70
· Broken bones, 66
· Brushing, 49
· Budweiser (beer), 356
· Builder's license, 47
· Building, 31, 23, 16, 76, 95, 96, 130, 329
· Building codes, 63
· Building inspectors, 6
· Bunco, 152
· Bunk beds, 102
· Burden, 215
· Business, 76
· Bus stops, 70
· Butter, 98

C

· C.S. Lewis, 187
· C.s. lewis, 219
· Cabin, 43, 172
· Cake, 38
· Callard & Bowser (British company), 9
· Calvinism, 46
· Camp house, 136
· Canada, 72, 55
· Capillaries, 5
· Capitalism, 103
· Cardboard, 29
· Cards, 320
· Carl zeiss, 146
· Carpentry, 16
· Car repairs, 51
· Categories, 10
· Catholocism, 46
· Cats, 82
· Caucuses, 205
· Causes, 137
· Cell phones, 140
· Central control, 140
· Centralization, 24
· Cereal, 37
· Cereal boxes, 207
· Certainty, 209
· Chain-shaking, 176
· Chanters, 94
· Chapped lips, 36, 59
· Chapstick, 36
· Chariots of fire, 67, 83
· Charisma, 55, 80
· Charismatic-ism, 46
· Charity, 213
· Charles Dickens, 322
· Charm, 191
· Chaucer, 94
· Cheerfulness, 71
· Cherry and spoon, 132
· Chess, 44
· Chewing, 93
· Chicago, 179, 320
· Chickadees (symbolic of cheerfulness), 71
· Chipmunk, 143
· Chocolate chip bars, 232, 331
· Choirs, 30
· Christ, 335
· Christian culture, 217
· Christian culture (american), 332
· Christmas, 106, 186, 240, 341
· Christmas Carol (book by Charles Dickens), 322
· Christopher Alexander, 63
· Churches, 24
· Cities, 24
· Civil government, 142
· Civil policy, 156
· Clean slates, 331
· Closeness, 320
· Clouds, 153
· Clowns, 345
· Clutter, 62
· Cms, 10
· Cobwebs, 5
· Cockroaches, 89
· Code, 17, 226, 234
· Coffee, 21
· Coffee shops, 44, 204
· Coined expressions, 91
· Coke polar bear, 54
· Cold cold north, 196
· Cold fronts, 18
· Cold soup, 20
· Cold water, 102
· Cold weather, 155
· College bookstores, 21
· Colossal whale, 86
· Comedy, 65
· Comet, 324
· Comments, 87, 344
· Commerce, 199
· Common areas, 63
· Competence, 198
· Compiler, 146
· Complex personalities, 80
· Compulsive chronicling, 336
· Computers, 336
· Computer who wore tennis shoes (movie), 337
· Concert, 196
· Concrete planters, 320
· Conscience, 4
· Construction, 23, 16, 76, 130, 188
· Construction unit, 108
· Content, 10
· Contrabass, 324
· Conversations, 182, 187, 191
· Cooking, 37, 98
· Copperplate gothic, 208
· Cordless drills, 103
· Corn fields, 356
· Corn flakes, 13
· Corrections, 152
· Correspondence, 68, 66, 89, 108, 136
· Courtship, 29
· Crabs, 29
· Cracked yellow paint, 102
· Cream of wheat, 102
· Creation, 81
· Creative burnout, 337
· Creativity, 317, 330
· Credibility, 333
· Crickets, 33
· Crime, 141, 142, 149, 156
· Crisis, 16
· Criticism, 321
· Crops (figurative), 31
· Crossbars, 139
· Crows, 33
· Crucifixion, 181
· Crying, 15
· Culinary expenses, 21
· Cultish insignia, 9
· Cultish statements, 63
· Cultural imagery, 19
· Culture, 106
· Cultures, 149
· Curious souls, 108
· Cycles, 195

D

· Dairy products (discoloured green), 38
· Daisies, 29
· Dance, 324
· Dancing, 192
· Dandelions, 71
· Danger, 129
· Dapper Fellows (society), 106
· Dark Ages, 356
· Dark-Roasted Reverie Grande (hypothetical coffee brew), 21
· Dark door, 32
· Darwinians, 37
· Dave, 241
· David Brainerd, 217
· David McCullough (author), 339
· Daydreams, 232
· Daylight's dauphin, 335
· Death, 129, 139, 354
· Debate, 332
· Deer, 21, 54
· Deicide, 26
· Delegates, 205
· Demons, 177
· Dentists, 187
· Depravity, 223
· Depressing, 160
· Depression, 179
· Despair, 209, 217
· Desperation, 102
· Detachable body parts, 108
· Diagrams, 330
· Diamond-cut discernment, 59
· Dice, 152
· Diligence, 81
· Dingy paperbacks, 62
· Disney world, 80
· Distant furnaces, 54
· Distress, 214
· Divine in disguise, 335
· Division, 137
· Doom and gloom, 50
· Dormers, 6
· Downtown, 182
· Dragons, 329
· Dread pirate, 154
· Dreams, 86
· Driving at night, 196
· Drones, 198
· Drowning, 62
· Dueck brotherhood, 179
· Duluth, 79, 196
· Dusting, 203
· Dusty cages, 32

E

· Early death, 21
· Early morning, 193
· East coast, 98
· Eating, 207
· Ecclesiastes, 168
· Economic initiatives, 156
· Edgar Allen Poe, 77
· Edwin Nathaniel Dowdley, 70, 65, 21, 14, 89, 106, 130, 182
· Efficiency of motion, 23
· Egg-headed boyhood, 331
· Elated joy, 209
· Elections, 89, 205
· Elementary education, 62
· Elephants, 230
· Elephants in the sky, 130
· Elevators, 159
· Ely, 98
· Emergencies, 140
· Emergency room, 99
· Emotions, 209, 235
· Empires disintegrating, 356
· End of the world, 354
· Endurance (ship), 54
· Energy, 64
· Enlightenment, 22
· Entropy, 20
· Envelopes, 319
· Epithets (renaissance-style), 5
· Errors, 27
· Escher, 44
· Ether, 27
· Evil, 187
· Evil spells, 329
· Exegesis, 183
· Exitus acta probat, 14

F

· Failure, 129
· Fairies, 321
· Fairy tales, 329
· Faith, 164, 170, 181
· Fall, 97, 188
· False hopes, 109
· Falsified records, 55
· Family, 179
· Farming, 31, 135
· Farms, 340
· Fashion, 229
· Fast food, 93
· Fatal pagan rites, 177
· Fatalspresso (hypothetical coffee brew), 21
· Fate, 27
· Fat grease, 9
· Fatigue, 37, 64
· Fbi, 208
· Fear, 325
· Fedex, 319
· Fervent prose, 98
· Feverish creativity, 139
· Files, 130
· Fillets, 98
· Fine cheeses, 338
· Fire, 32
· Firearms, 188
· Fish, 86
· Fishing, 2, 44, 98, 134
· Flies (unusually talented), 30
· Flotsam, 321
· Flourescent lighting, 191
· Focus, 209
· Fog, 210
· Foget, 77, 102
· Foibles, 144
· Fonts, 53
· Food supply chains, 135
· Foolishness, 183
· Footnotes, 158, 344
· Forgiveness, 183
· Framing, 50, 232
· Free web hosting, 143
· Friends, 188
· Friendship, 320
· Frogs (singing), 30
· Frosty's ice cream, 134
· Fudging the system, 4
· Funeral, 155
· Funeral pyre, 32
· Furniture, 130

G

· Gabbro lake, 98
· Gallup, 319
· Games, 152, 154
· Garnishes, 98
· Garrison, 137
· Gas, 139
· Gate of Ezekiel, 106
· Gaudete, 106
· General contractors, 96
· Genuine writing, 195
· Germans, 192
· Giants, 176
· Gifts, 144
· Glass, 202
· Glassy gales, 94
· Glory, 129
· Gnat's toejam, 91
· Goals, 188
· God, 32, 153, 181, 183, 325
· God (traces of), 340
· Goldfish coffins, 9
· Good Night Irene (short fiction), 20, 18, 15, 82, 97, 103, 104, 323
· Goodbyes, 155
· Goof, 96
· Gospel, 183
· Gracie, 232
· Grain-belt brewery, 132
· Grand schemes, 187
· Grape juice, 133
· Graphs, 160, 209
· Gratefulness, 130
· Gratuitous reverie, 13
· Greasy rain, 199
· Great divorce, 199
· Green daisies, 38
· Green tape, 96
· Grocery shopping, 352
· Group intelligence, 333
· Guile, 167, 168
· Guilt, 98

H

· Hacking, 336
· Haircuts, 197
· Half-marathon, 79
· Hammer swinging, 22
· Handkerchiefs, 73
· Handwriting, 322
· Happiness, 139
· Hardware stores, 103
· Harvest (symbolic and unhallowed), 5
· Haunting, 325
· Health insurance, 188
· Heat death, 27
· Heaven, 32, 139
· Heaven's bank, 59
· Herd mentality, 24
· Hip-hop, 324
· Historical anomalies, 27
· Historical note, 143
· Hockey, 188, 193
· Home building, 22
· Homogeneity, 137
· Honey, 243
· Honeymoon, 352
· Hope, 129, 209
· Hopes, 159
· Hopscotch thingies, 9
· Horizons, 340
· Hornpipes, 192
· Horse, 39
· Horticulture, 71
· Hostels, 345
· Hot dog vendors, 332
· Hourglass, 77, 86
· House, 188
· Houseplants, 64
· Housewives, 337
· Howell Creek Radio, 70, 89
· Howell creek radio, 136
· Human nature, 142, 149
· Human resolution, 31
· Humans, 320
· Humility, 332
· Hunger, 37
· Hunt for the Red October, 324
· Hunting, 325

I

· Ibm, 203
· Icy gasps, 54
· Icy mosses, 94
· Ideals, 130
· Ideas, 183
· Idle cultural pursuits, 2
· Imagination, 325
· Immigration, 338
· Impromptu speeches, 137
· Improvisational strategy, 321
· Incarnation, 106, 341
· Indecision, 103
· Individual right, 149
· Ineptitude, 102
· Infocom, 146
· Inform, 146
· Injuries, 66, 99
· Ink, 156, 317, 319
· Inky darkness, 194
· Inner conflict, 192
· Inns, 204
· Insects, 5
· Insurance agents, 208
· Insurance claims, 66
· Intelligence, 80
· Interactive fiction, 146
· Interestingness, 206
· Interpersonal contact, 160
· Interview, 196
· Inviolate darkness, 108
· Invitations, 144
· Iraq, 68
· Irish girl, 192
· Irishmen, 192
· Irish music, 44
· Irish paraphernalia, 38
· Isaiah, 183
· Islam, 328
· Isolation, 356
· Itunes, 234
· It workers, 336

J

· Jack Aubrey, 329
· Jacob, 172
· January, 193
· Jeremy Brett, 194
· Jester (spirit of), 345
· Jesus, 26, 153, 164
· Jetsam, 321
· Jetty, 146
· Jewels, 29
· Jews, 26
· Jigs, 192
· Jingles, 194
· Job, 170
· Job requirements, 76
· John Adams, 232
· Jonathan Edwards, 217
· Journal, 141
· Journal entry, 34, 6, 7, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 76, 79, 83, 91, 95, 99, 107, 128, 133, 134, 136, 138, 143, 147, 152, 155, 158, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 170, 172, 174, 327
· Journals, 317, 339
· Joyent, 336

K

· King, 186
· King (spirit of), 345
· Kingdom of heaven, 153
· Kisses (long and passionate), 65
· Kitchen-table, 320
· Kitchen cabinets, 95

L

· Lack of time, 129
· Ladders, 198
· Lake inguadona, 134
· Lake ontario, 345
· Lakes, 132
· Land, 340
· Land-clearing, 66
· Lanterns, 86
· Laser beams, 137
· Latin, 106
· Latin in everyday life, 147
· Laughing rhyme (ripple of), 69
· Law, 4, 106
· Lawns (lush and natural), 71
· Laws of nature, 4
· Leaf-buds, 324
· Learning curves, 107
· Learning the hard way, 158
· Leaves, 231
· Leaving early, 139
· Legion, 5
· Letterpress, 188, 211, 323
· Letters, 109, 319
· Lexical semantics, 138
· Liberia, 197
· Lies, 195
· Lifespan, 160
· Lifetime, 160
· Lincoln, 83
· Lions, 325
· Listening cat, 15
· Living rooms, 182, 199
· Local isolation, 356
· Lofty stations, 159
· Log-rolling (metaphorical), 13
· Log homes, 95
· Lol acronym, 195
· Loose doorknobs, 103
· Losses, 152
· Loudspeakers, 192
· Lousiana Purchase, 329
· Love, 29, 153, 170
· Luigi, 49
· Lumber, 232
· Lumber piles, 16
· Lumber yards, 96
· Lunch hour, 96

M

· Machine, 27
· Mailboxes, 109
· Mail from readers, 68, 89
· Majestic equality, 106
· Make-believe, 338
· Malaise, 238
· Manhood (essence of), 194
· Manuscripts, 322
· Map, 130
· Maps, 340
· Mariner, 81
· Marquee fiction, 20, 18, 15, 82, 97, 103, 104, 323
· Marriage, 144, 219
· Math, 160
· Matrimony, 48
· Mattresses, 139
· Maxwell smart, 140
· Mediocrity, 129
· Meditation, 351
· Meekness, 167
· Memories, 203
· Menards, 96, 232
· Mendicants, 41
· Mephitic toxins, 71
· Metaphysics, 321
· Meteorologists, 97
· Metre, 69
· Metricrats, 89
· Metric system, 70, 14, 89
· Michael Hedges, 196
· Michigan, 38, 39, 40, 66, 47
· Mike Roberts, 146
· Milne, 12
· Mindless mundane filler, 133
· Ministry, 188
· Minneapolis, 23, 53, 132
· Minnesota, 2, 43, 16, 14, 98, 132, 205
· Minnesota Public Radio, 328
· Mismatched socks, 108
· Moleskine, 317, 339
· Monochromatic visions, 139
· Moon halo, 196
· Moralising, 64
· Morals, 142
· Moral vegetables, 130
· Moral virtue, 93
· Morning conversation, 81
· Mosquitoes, 5
· Motivation, 198
· Motivational architecture, 321
· Motivational pep talk, 64
· Movie rentals, 194
· Movies, 56
· Mr. President, 232
· Mr. Wasserman, 21, 137
· Muse, 327
· Music, 200
· Music (ancient tuning systems), 356
· Mythos, 27

N

· NASA engineers, 337
· NPR, 26, 333
· Nail guns, 99
· Narratives, 89
· National franchises, 132
· Natural cycles, 31, 324
· Natural selection, 341
· Nature, 132, 324
· Needle-stabbings, 5
· Neon colors, 200
· Nest-enlargement, 7
· New coats, 338
· New job, 130
· Newspaper, 98
· Newspapers, 139
· New year, 188
· Niagara Falls, 345
· Nice, 225
· Noah's ark, 329
· Non sequitur, 147
· No one will ever know, 41
· Northern pike, 86
· Northwest angle, 72
· Notebooks, 317
· Novel, 188
· November, 16
· Now, 324
· Nuances, 98
· Nuclear family, 63

O

· Observations, 339
· Occupation, 47
· Off-hour elections, 55
· Office, 130
· Office building, 23
· Oil, 98
· Old sales receipts, 9
· Old websites, 143
· Oliver Twist, 322
· Onion peeling, 15
· Opa, 155
· Orange chocolate, 331
· Outliers, 324
· Overdue fines, 89

P

· Pacifism, 187
· Packages, 109, 319
· Pain, 164, 170, 325
· Painting, 130
· Pandora's box, 329
· Panic, 102
· Parables, 153, 341
· Paralysis, 103
· Parca's fatal web (expression), 12
· Parenting, 63
· Parking lots, 182
· Passing cars, 340
· Past's abyss, 32
· Pattern Language (book), 63
· Paving stones, 64
· Pay phones, 140
· Peace, 165
· Peaches, 29
· Peanuts (cartoon), 339
· Peeling wallpaper, 20
· Penalties, 142
· Pendergast, 59
· Pepper, 232
· Pequod county, 14
· Perfection, 332
· Peter, 241
· Pet peeves, 107
· Photogenic, 206
· Photographs, 180
· Pickup trucks, 96, 100
· Pictures, 203
· Pie crust, 93
· Piglet, 12
· Pill organizers (weekly), 9
· Pine County, 89
· Pines, 340
· Pioneer, 130
· Piotr, 336
· Planets, 324
· Play (theatric production), 65, 48
· Plumb, 22
· Plumbing, 201
· Podcasting, 222, 234, 337
· Poem, 30, 33, 31, 32, 39, 5, 29, 59, 94, 109, 166, 168, 176, 177, 202, 340
· Poetic tuck (linguistic quality), 91
· Poetry, 158, 177, 224, 242
· Poetry (writing of), 69
· Poison, 177
· Political pranks, 55
· Politics, 205
· Port-sands Mariner, 77, 81, 102
· Portraits, 182
· Possum, 39
· Postage, 319
· Postal service, 319
· Potato head, 108
· Potluck, 137
· Power outages, 135
· Predators, 335
· Predictions, 200
· Presentation, 10
· Previous generations, 144
· Pride, 130
· Primitive men, 356
· Prison reform, 187
· Problem of pain, 325
· Profundity, 80
· Progress, 232
· Proposal ideas, 9
· Protagonists, 325
· Proto-neo-conservatism (example of), 72
· Psalms, 167, 168, 170, 172
· Psycholo, 63
· Public library, 89
· Public safety, 149
· Pubs, 204
· Pursuit, 335
· Pursuit of man by God, 165

Q

· Quagmires of foolish introspection, 67

R

· Rabbit, 12
· Radio, 80, 137
· Radio (user interface of), 337
· Radio news, 15
· Radios, 140
· Rain, 324
· Rapt attention, 18
· Ravens, 177
· Reactionary effort, 159
· Reader's Digest (declining magazine), 133
· Reading, 207
· Reagan, 83
· Real estate, 191
· Realtors, 208
· Reasonable doubt, 19
· Record-keeping, 339
· Red Cross (relief organization), 174
· Reels, 192
· Regal reserve, 345
· Registration, 144
· Regular Vein (ship), 77, 81, 86, 102
· Rejection, 164
· Rejoicing, 167
· Relativity, 4
· Rememberance, 339
· Repentance, 183
· Requiescat in pace, 27
· Rescues, 194
· Resolutions, 188
· Restaurant analogies, 69
· Revelation, 19, 10, 354
· Reverie, 62
· Rhyme, 69
· Rhythm, 324
· Ribbons, 319
· Riddles, 173
· Rigours, 321
· Rituals, 321
· Roads, 4
· Roaring stomach pain, 79
· Robbins, 33
· Rocks, 130
· Romantic leads, 325
· Roosevelt, 83
· Rules, 154
· Rum, 93
· Running, 67, 79
· Rush-hour traffic, 356
· Russell Kirk, 137

S

· Sacrifice, 130
· Safety, 188
· Sailing, 102, 320
· Saltine crackers, 133
· Salvation, 106
· Sand-pits, 12
· Sandwiches, 37
· Santa Bear, 196
· Sappy modern prose, 13
· Sauces, 98
· Savings, 216
· Scale, 324
· School buses, 331
· Screech, 93
· Scuba diving, 336
· Seafaring scenes, 77, 81, 86, 102
· Seals, 319
· Seasons, 31, 132
· Secret lineage, 108
· Sections, 10
· Seizures, 200
· Self-reproach, 50
· Selfishness, 129
· Semantics, 10, 321
· Serendipity, 327
· Sergeant, 108
· Sergeant-at-Arms, 70
· Sergeant major, 59
· Serpents, 177
· Set-backs (architecture), 63
· Settler, 340
· Sexual ineptitude, 63
· Shackleton, 54
· Shakespeare, 12
· Shame, 164
· Sherlock Holmes, 194
· Ship, 77, 81
· Ships, 102
· Shock, 102
· Shoe phones, 140
· Shopping, 103
· Showers, 201
· Sickening sound, 86
· Silas Marner, 356
· Silence, 49, 132
· Similar mean streets, 199
· Simple pleasures, 331
· Singing, 19
· Skepticism, 321
· Skiing, 196
· Slaughter, 153
· Slave trade, 187
· Slaying, 168
· Sleep, 193, 356
· Sleeping hard, 102
· Sleeping together, 352
· Small-minded persistence, 335
· Small town, 98
· Smiles, 36, 59
· Smiling, 102
· Smite, 153
· Smudges, 36, 142, 322
· Sneezing, 73, 36
· Snoo, 232
· Snow, 244
· Snowfall, 340
· Snowy saunters, 94
· Soar, 32
· Social instincts, 204
· Socks, 13
· Song, 186
· Sordid histories, 108
· Sore throat, 139
· Sorrow, 209
· Sour grapes (literal), 33
· Space, 324
· Space station, 83
· Space trilogy, 219
· Special K (cereal), 241
· Speed limits, 4, 89
· Spelling conventions, 26
· Spiders (hypothetical transformation into), 341
· Spirit-distance, 320
· Spiritual understanding, 217
· Spoken utterances, 195
· Spring, 168, 324
· Squirrels, 33
· St Patrick's Day, 38, 192
· St. paul, 53, 132
· Stamps, 319
· Starched collars, 130
· Stars, 54
· Station wagon, 18
· Steps of carpentry, 22
· Steve (brother), 147
· Stitches, 66
· Stories, 325
· Stormloader, 143
· Straightjacket, 62
· Strategy, 154
· Stress relief, 22
· Stripes, 139
· Struggle, 129
· Stupid laptops, 194
· Stuttering, 29
· Substitution cipher, 17
· Suburbanites, 71
· Suffering, 187, 325
· Suited frog, 106
· Summer, 132, 355
· Summons, 341
· Superhero cowboys, 187
· Supernova, 324
· Surgery, 168
· Surprise twist, 108
· Surroundings, 355
· Survey, 319
· Swaledale house, 162, 191
· Swallowing, 93
· Swimming, 102
· Switches and buttons, 337
· Syndication, 74

T

· TADS (programming language), 146
· Table tennis, 70
· Tacky, 144
· Talking points, 132
· Tantalus, 22
· Tapes (audio), 324
· Teak cutting boards, 144
· Teamwork, 102
· Technical articles, 27, 10
· Technical articles (outdated), 74
· Text adventures, 146
· Text messaging, 140
· Textpattern, 10, 234
· Thanksgiving, 152, 239
· That hideous strength, 219
· The Final Stages (play), 65
· The Gardener of Gloucester (fictional play), 65
· Theatrical hilarity, 65
· Theological urban legend, 19
· Theology, 19
· Thermocline, 237
· Thinking, 232
· Thinking specifically, 187
· Thrashing, 59
· Throat-scratching thistles, 33
· Thwip, 180
· Tigger, 12
· Time, 330
· Time fleeting by, 97, 129, 160, 335
· Timeless way of building, 63
· Tins, 9
· Tintin and the Blue Lotus, 89
· Toasters, 144
· Toe-wiggling, 66
· Toilet paper in a rainstorm, 23
· Tools, 16
· Toothaches, 187
· Torture, 325
· Townhall meeting, 14
· Tow trucks, 194
· Tractors, 66
· Traffic jams, 356
· Tragedy, 65
· Trances, 232
· Transfiguration, 181
· Traps, 217
· Tree of knowledge of good and evil, 341
· Trends, 144, 200
· Trixie, 320, 338
· Troubleshooting, 336
· Truck, 192
· Trumpet, 200
· Tuberculosis, 187
· Twin (font), 53
· Typewriters, 322
· Typewritten pages, 141, 142, 156
· Typography, 53, 146

U

· Ullamaliztli, 321
· Uncle mike, 66
· Unconsciousness, 20
· Unity, 137
· Universal peace, 187
· Unnatural suppression, 73
· Unwary bystanders, 73
· Up north, 132, 134
· Ups, 319
· Urbanism, 63
· Usps, 319

V

· Van allen, 191
· Vanity, 182
· Vehicular failures, 194
· Veins, 5
· Verbs, 193
· Victims, 149
· Video, 171
· Visa, 338
· Vitriol, 133
· Voices of friends, 139
· Volume1, 72, 9, 12, 73, 71, 70, 13
· Volume2, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 62, 74, 63, 27
· Volume3, 26, 24, 23, 21, 22, 17, 20, 19, 16, 18, 14, 15, 10, 4
· Volume4, 77, 80, 81, 82, 86, 87, 89, 93, 96, 97, 102, 98, 103, 106, 108
· Volume5, 129, 130, 135, 137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 146, 144, 149, 153, 154, 156, 159, 160
· Volume6, 164, 170, 171, 173, 176, 177, 179, 181, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 213
· Volume7, 178, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 329, 330, 331, 333, 335
· Volume8, 338, 339, 354
· Voodoo veil (technology), 336
· Vulnerability (essence of divinity), 341

W

· WCCO, 174
· Waiters, 338
· Waking up, 59
· Wallet, 103
· Walleye, 98
· Walls made from cow dung, 63
· Waltzing waters, 94
· Wandering Woods, 146
· War Games (movie), 337
· Warm darkness, 86
· Warming houses, 193
· Washing machines, 337
· Water, 351
· Waterfalls, 345
· Wax, 319
· Weather, 53, 18, 79, 155, 188, 324
· Web, 337
· Web sites, 330
· Weddings, 48, 144
· Weeds, 30
· Weekend, 97
· White powdery donuts, 16
· Wicked stepmothers, 329
· Wicked vacancies, 109
· Wildlife, 33
· Wincing, 182
· Windhover, 335
· Wine, 71
· Winnie the Pooh, 12
· Winnipeg, 72
· Wins, 152
· Winter, 36, 54, 16, 132, 155, 341
· Winter clothing, 196
· Word pictures, 170
· Work, 129, 130, 198
· Work ethic, 96
· World wide web, 27
· Wormholes, 325
· Wrestling, 172
· Wristwatches, 144
· Writing, 93, 219, 317, 319, 325, 327
· Writing style, 13

Y

· Yarns, 77
· Yeats, 137
· Young ladies, 29
· Young man, 167
· Youth, 62, 160, 167

Z

· Zeal, 64
· Zealous moderation, 321
· Zen, 355
· Zoning ordinances, 156
· Zork, 146