Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment And Isolation
“By the age of ten, I’d outgrown the callow days of rubber chocolates and exploding cigarette loads and was now searching for something with a little more gravitas. The ball got rolling when I discovered a witchcraft supply catalog laying around my older brother Mark’s room—just another piece of 1970s head shop clutter among the Zap Comix and crushed boxes of banana E-Z Widers.
The company, Oracle and Pendulum, was located out west in a mysterious place called Toluca Lake, which I imagined t...o be a black, gurgling body of water cloaked in a dark forest lousy with imps and naked hags. At the time, the farthest I’d been from Harrisburg was Ocean City, Maryland, so the rest of the country, I presumed, was untamed and barbaric.
My maiden purchase was a bag of magnetic sand. I wanted to ease into this thing. According to the catalog, magnetic sand would bring its recipient happiness and good fortune. It delivered neither and, quite frankly, was a bit of a mess.MoreLess
The company, Oracle and Pendulum, was located out west in a mysterious place called Toluca Lake, which I imagined t...o be a black, gurgling body of water cloaked in a dark forest lousy with imps and naked hags. At the time, the farthest I’d been from Harrisburg was Ocean City, Maryland, so the rest of the country, I presumed, was untamed and barbaric.
My maiden purchase was a bag of magnetic sand. I wanted to ease into this thing. According to the catalog, magnetic sand would bring its recipient happiness and good fortune. It delivered neither and, quite frankly, was a bit of a mess.MoreLess
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