Macular if not Immacular Conceptions

Dear Fiction-ers
& Colleagues across the Curriculum
(Courses W/O Borders Series)

The Map is never the Territory
Please Don't Eat the Menu

From “The Conversion of the Jews” (Phil Roth)

“Mary hadda get Laid.”

I’m selecting that specimen (sample) and declaring
IT STANDS-FOR THE WHOLE STORY.
(Represents.)

Mess around with that sentence (4 words) and I
swear you might could untangle the WHOLE
universe of Human Relations.

What? You think I overstate?

Hell no, I don’t. I’m understating if anything.

Right there: the macular if not imaculate IDEA
packed into them 4 words: you could solve
the riddle of the Sphinx, for crying out loud.
IT’s all there.

IT, I said.
Do I always got to be spelling IT out?

Play with IT.
Turn IT way up.

If you’re not Good at Bullshitting,
well then—forgetabout it. IT”s not
going to happen.

(This is not your Hamil Complex!
Carson nor Spidel. Might could talk
this way in Holden & points north,
but be wary. Be aware.)

xxxooo, Sam