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Table of Contents An Afternoon Muse 5 Proverbs of Hell 8 Editorial 12 PART ONE Paper Moon 21 John Steinbeck and the Romance of Tortilla Flat by Stephen Zelnick 20 Work of Ages Work of Comets by Tom Sheehan 32 Armstrong by Martin Heavisides 41 Bread and Potatoes by Mari Fitzpatrick 56 PART TW0 The Arrow and The Song 59 Bethlehem by Alisa Velaj 59 Pillows of Sound by Alisa Velaj 61 Mozart Appeared on the Stage by Alisa Velaj 63 Micro Section: 64 Smell of Rain by Ray Collins 67 Quisling by Lauran Strait 69 Diet-Tribe by Lauran Strait 70 The Language of Frost by Bill West 73 Wheelchair Waits by Bill West 74 Cut Loose by Digby Beaumont 77 Don Diego Takes the Miracle Cure At Ojo Caliente by Ann Walters 79 Meditations on dear Petrov by Susan Tepper 81 Pink Steel by Noel King 86 The Spite Apple by Harry Stone 93 ART Still life with skull, candle and book by Paul Cezanne, Date: 1866 10 Winter Moon over the Med (Inhouse Art) 18 Rembrandt Self Portrait, 30 The Jazz Singer by Charles Demuth, 1916, 55 Fisherman with Arrow, Ancient Egypt, Date: c.1422 - c.1411 BC Series: Tomb of Menna 56 Bethlehem by Konstantin Gorbatov, 59 Still Life with Guitar by Juan Gris, Date: 1920 61 The singer Francisco d'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera by Max SlevogtDate: 1912 62 Street Music by Theo Von Doesburg 64 Summer evening on the porch by Konstantin Korovin 66 Can't anyone untie us? by Francisco Goya 68 Art:: Dietary Life Rules by Utagawa Kunisada, 70 Garden under Snow by Paul Gauguin 72 Carousel by Vilmos Aba-Novak 74 Costume design for "Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and Maiden Fevronia" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov by Ivan Bilibin 76 The Miracles of San Bernardino by Pietro Perugino 78 Profile of a girl. Preparatory work for a decorative stain in red and green by Koloman Moser 80 Sky at Sunset by Eugene Boudin 82 The Rainbow, Hormandie by Robe