Contents 1
1．Face to Face with Hurricane Camille 1
2．Marrakech 21
3．Pub Talk and the King’s English 42
4．Inaugural Address 60
5．Love is a Fallacy 80
6．The Special Theory of Relativity 107
7．The Libido for the Ugly 127
8．The Worker as Creator or Machine 146
9．The Blue Nile 169
10．The Sad Young Men 184
11．The Future of the English 208
12．The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 233
13．In Favor of Capital Punishment 252
14．Loving and Hating New York 278