The Mysterious disappeared one night, just as mysteriously as it had once so long ago mysteriously arrived. Come Back, Mysterious, was a banner pulled by a small plane that later crashed under mysterious circumstances. Now, without The Mysterious, even a word like circumstances can seem rather mysterious. Cir—a one-ring circus that sets up at dawn and is gone by sunset, leaving no trace. Cum—obvious sexual connotations aroused by the mysterious slit in a skirt that opens slightly on a thigh, then closes. Stances—those who stand by the sea in their long black overcoats, resembling from a distance the pilings of a pier, a pier whose deck drifted away with the tide, mysteriously.