The Art of Misdirection

  

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”

 

—Thomas Pynchon, author, Gravity's Rainbow, 1973 (p. 251) (Thanks to alert WORDster Peter Y. Sussman)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Loose the hounds!

 

 

 

PeezPIX

 

Fogwalk w/ dog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard