Acknowledgment is made to the following publications, where various pieces from this book first appeared (often in modified form or under a different title): The Rumpus: “French Like Moi” (including the image reproduced in this edition); Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize: “Squirrel Pie and the Golden Derrière” (later published in Lowestoft Chronicle); Catapult: “The Medi-Morphosis,” “War of the Worlds”; Ducts: “Too Soon, Too Close”; JMWW: “La Modification”; Lowestoft Chronicle: “The Acute and the Grave,” “Squirrel Pie and the Golden Derrière”; Secrets of Paris: “The Tab,” “Underground Man,” “Either/Or,” “The Cartesian Method.”