The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It is like a bracelet worn by a diabetic. When you return the book...

The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book — it opens tentatively — and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a...

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.