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The Adventures of Wusser Britches, the World's Most Independent Cat.
After Shocks. Fourteen lines beyond the kindergarten playpen of this tinkertoy technology [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
*Akt: New Poems for the New Millennium. Robert Lonoke.
Amenhotep: A Wounded Sonnet. Denise Hawkins.
Ancient Paradox Mocks Docs. Ceci Lumley. Translation problems in the Tao Te Ching.
Apprentice at Saïs. Novalis, for the 21st century.
The Arrogance of Vision. Elinor Hoefs on the hazards of visual acuity.
Archives. Old stuff.
Askew. Rean Rhyne obscure little bit of doggerel about the perils of Zen.
Atoll Letters. A strange fiction fragment.
At Work, One Writer. Sylvia Sikeston on Jamie O'Neill's masterpiece, At Swim, Two Boys.
Bangkok 8. Sylvia Sikeston reviews John Burdett's remarkable new novel.
Best Books. 5 lists of the best books of the 20th century.
Bibliotherapy, Cinetherapy, Cybertherapy. Books & movies that make us laugh.
The Birth of Venus. Sylvia Sikeston reviews Sarah Dunant's Florentine novel.
The Blue Book: Notes on the Ends of Millennia. Temple Duciel.*
Books Not to Read. Our book editor's picky list of definite unfav's.
Bowser Barks. Pedro Bofecillos on the poet's position vis-a-vis stuff.
The Boys Across the Street. Reppy Duart on Rick Sandford's provocative novel.
Brokeback Mountain: Notes Toward a Review. Scott McComb's contrarian take.
Bull Run. Henry Bob Kulup. Two rural Americans and one problematic bull.
*Byblos Fragments. Piongo Pisgah. Ideas and fragments.
Canon Fodder. Poetry by Izora Firelands.
The Cocksucker Sings of Paradise. Didio Antis's 3 quatrains on the still-born millennium.
Comfort Me with Epigrams: The World According to Peter De Vries. Temple Duciel.
The Cosmos and I. Pedro Bofecillos. Poetry. Approach at your own risk.
Country Bumpkins. Nicholas Momurray obfuscates brilliantly.
*A Day in the Park. H.R. Kulup. Short story.
Does Good English Still Matter? Robert Lonoke.
Does Saying Make It So? Doc Cuddy thinks Laura Bush was right when she said politics has nothing to do with American literature!
The Ecstasy of Sanctimony. Temple Duciel on Philip Roth's The Human Stain.
*Edges of Divinity. Reppy Duart, D.D. A multi-media theater piece.
Edinburgh. Jack Xamis's strange review of Alexander Chee's beautiful novel.
An Empty Mind Is Always Cheerful. Short story by Angelika Jakob, translated by Christiane Galvani.
Englewood Entropy: The World's Shortest Novel. Anonymous.
The Eyes Have It. Douglas Milburn. Thinking beyond the box.
*Fables of Innocence and Experience. Lucas Covert. With apologies to Wm. Blake.
The Fifteenth Line. Robert Lonoke's latest visionary poem.
51-L Threnody: In Memorium. Douglas Milburn, on Challenger, and now Columbia.
*Filicide: the Mythic Reality of Childhood. Vrana Hempstead.
Filicide interview with Vrana Hempstead.
Flat Heat. Don Pfingston. A brief but insightful commentary on seasonal reality.
Flöh Haz: On Inferring the Existence of Trees. Astraeu Chakar poetizes desert-wise.
Food4thot. Anonymous. Applied yin-yang.
Found Sentence. One New Orleans graffito.
The Games of Childhood. Marcella T. Perry. An unknown poet's global debut.
Get Thee to Greece. Elinor Hoefs. In praise of Mary Renault's vivid novels of ancient Greece.
*Haiku One, Two.
Hallelujah! A Real Pro at Work! Temple Duciel rejoices in Donald E. Westlake's latest caper novel.
Handle with Care. Hinko Livernoix. Remarks on the theater and other matters.
Head Graffiti. Words to the wise, and the unwise.
Head Reading. Books the staff likes a lot.
The Helios Cycle. Douglas Milburn.
Herds & Stories. Sylvia Thodhiss on conformity and non-conformity.
Herrje, Herrje! An anonymous German reader's poem, about which probably the less said, the better.
Hsin Hsin Ming: Two Translations. The Clarke and Suzuki translations, side by side.
HUSH! Horticulturalist Izora Firelands's bit of admonitory free-verse.
The Hustling Vanities of Sentient Dust. Elisabeth Ney.
Hymnlet to the Night. Chardo Blue Plains offers a few thoughts on night dwellers. With midi.
Implications. Pedro Bofecillos uses eight words to make two statements and ask two questions.
In Search of the Great American Haiku. Jerden Purmort.
In the Gloaming. Robert L. Tufford. Nature poets we shall always have with us.
I.Q. Sylvia Thodhiss vents gently about cats, trees, me, and perhaps thee.
Iris Murdoch: Fragments of a Re-cognition. Douglas Milburn.
Irrational Exuberances. Piongo Pisgah. Notes from the end of a marriage of inconvenience.
Island Revisited. Reppy Duart looks at Huxley's utopia again 40 years later.
Johnny Got What? Elinor Hoef reminds us of Dalton Trumbo's shocking war novel.
Laissez-foutre. Poet Cheki Boggus takes us beyond laissez- faire into realms where angels fear to tread.
Lecture de Texte: "Shared Roots." Robert Watson. A reader responds eloquently.
Lines Found by Mr. Temple Duciel in the Poste Restante, Duino, Italy.
Lines to a Father on His Day. Henry Bob Kulup on daddies and their violence, both private and public.
"The Little King, An American Fairy Tale," by Henry Bob Kulup. Read it and weep.
*The Long Jaded Wrath. Amis Monteo. A novella writ as if 1950-1999 didn't happen.
*Lucinda, by Friedrich Schlegel. Douglas Milburn translates a 200-year-old best-seller.
The Magellan's Log Really Short Reading List & Brief Guide to Worldly Wisdom.
The Maggots of Belsen. Douglas Milburn. The what-it-is of Magellan's Log, sort of.
MAGISTERIAL. Doc Cuddy's sermonette on the power of words in the Age of Glib.
Marionette Theater. Heinrich von Kleist, for the 21st century.
Me and My Mayhaws. Douglas Milburn anthropomizes two plants [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
Minds Like Ours. Ho-hum. Six more pretentious sentences from our editor in chief.
Minds Like Ours. Sylvia Sikeston on trees and people.
Monkeewrench. Sylvia Sikeston finds a new book that's "good enough to put the 'thrill' back in 'thriller'".
Morning Becomes Ruth. An English village, a Texas spring, and a few words. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
My Love Is Like an Orange, Orange Rose. Douglas Milburn. A fairy tale for the vision-impaired.
Myra Breckinridge: An American Epiphany. Douglas Milburn.
Myra Breckinridge. A small tribute to Gore Vidal's one and only.
Mystery Writers. The staff recommends who-dun-its.
Les naivités dangereuses. Rean Rhyne. The dangerous misuse, and death, of words.
The New Mutants. Leslie A. Fiedler.
Neanderthal Writers for Fun and Profit. Sylvia Sikeston reacts rudely to Pete Dexter's novel, Train.
*Night Shard. Scott McComb. A prose fragment, inspired by Edward Hopper.
19 Movie Pitches.
Noirer Than Thou. Reppy Duart on Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels.
Non-P* Lit Crit. Doc Cuddy deconstructs the Elitists and admires Donald E. Westlake.
Nought for All & All for Nought. Chardo Blue Plains, on his latest wanderings.
Novalis. Douglas Milburn. New translations of old ideas.
*Saltlick: Mind Food for Cyber-nomads. Douglas Milburn. Meditation, anew.
Pentimento. Edward Hothi. Poetry.
The Persimmon Tree. Science editor Rean Rhyne tries his hand at fiction.
Photon's Lament. Harriet Lobdell sums a lot of it up in six lines.
Poetaster's Delight. A list of the poems we've published.
Practitioners. A few words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
Rashomonian Irregularites. Bloce Kaibab.
The Reader's Prayer. Sylvia Sikeston goes dyspeptic about a 40-year-old winner of the National Book Award.
Reading Readiness. Bob Odom. Poetry.***
Readings for Possible Futures. A recently unearthed 1960s artifact.
readme.txt. Two lists of books: the standard European canon, and our suggested additions.
Re: View. Saramae Anahuac has wrote a pome.
A Richness of Spirit: The New Mexico Novels of Michael McGarrity. Doc Cuddy.
R O O M S. Ten surrealist cortical massages by Piongo Pisgah.
Rootless. Harriett Lobdell's lines on the true value of silence.
Rubaiyat Redux. Edward FitzGerald's effective, if highly ambiguous, antidote to the madness of whatever era you happen to find yourself in.
Rules of Human Cultural History. A photograph. Of a wall. With words.
Scotsman's Delight. James Macpherson III with 14 lines of obduracy, or something. With midi.
Secondary Colors. Lulu Dilworth. Our take on Joe Klein's Primary Colors.
A Shard of Sky. Astraeu Chakar. Poetry. Brief, but still poetry.
Shared Roots. Astraeu Chakar. Lines of hope. Lecture de Texte: "Shared Roots." Robert Watson. A reader responds eloquently.
*Shiva Dancing: The Rothko Chapel Songs. C.K. Latham.
Singing Lessons. Pedro Bofecillos on violence, fathers, sons, and hope.
S L A C K. Ceci Lumley. A word-grid.
*So Weird About Little Jimmy. Chardo Blue Plains. Fiction.
Solar Reflections. Piongo Pisgah's lines on the solstice.
Sperm Lit 101: On Reading Lee Child. Sylvia Sikeston.
*Tehuacana: A Novel. O.E. Yajagar. Metafiction.
Summing It Up. Chardo Blue Plains on what it all means, Alfie.
10.5. Douglas Milburn. Opening lines of unwritten books.
Ten Words: Introduction and Contents.
Ten Words No. 1: How I Inadvertently Redecorated the Church of St. Stephen in Montenegro. A short story by Sawyer Brown.
Ten Words No. 2: The Initiator. A short story by Sawyer Brown.
Ten Words No. 3. One Hundred Square Inches of Blue Sky. A short story by Michelle Furr.
Ten Words No. 4. Petrov the Good. A short story by Ceci Lumley.
Ten Words No. 5: White Elephant. A Short Story by Robert Odom.
Ten Words No. 6: The Calhoun Cure. A short story by Rean Rhyne.
Ten Words No. 7: Marion Beauregard Flagler's Last Day. A short story by Sylvia Sikeston.
Ten Word No. 8: Dangers of the Orgasm. A short story by Temple Duciel.
Ten Words No. 9: My Career in Art. A short story by Jerden Purmort.
Ten Words No. 10: Dragstrip Porsche. A short story by Angus Verspeeten.
Ten Words No. 11: Hover Craft. A Short story by J.M. Pyka.
Ten Words No. 12: Sleepy Lobster. A short story by Douglas Milburn.
Ten Words No. 13: Treehuggers at 10. A short story by Diebold Essen.
Ten Words No. 14: Milles Boners. A fictitious memo by Doc Cuddy.
Ten Words No. 15: Shade. A short story by Maurice Fitznuggly.
Ten Words No. 16: The Rebel of Orange County. A short story by Edward Hothi.
Ten Words No. 17: The Malvern Hills. A short story by Sylvia Sikeston.
Ten Words No. 18: The Golden Mean of Marfa. A short story by Elinor Hoefs.
Ten Words No. 19: Rez Rape. A short story by Bloce Kaibab.
*Texas Tao: The Wit and Wisdom of the Interstates. Hardy Metcalf, Ph.D.
A Thousand Hounds. Reppy Duart. An unlikely, all-stops-pulled review of an unlikely book.
3000 C.E. & the Great How-dun-it. Which of our books are they gonna be reading a thousand years from now?
Tibet, Tibet, Tibet. Ceci Lumley. Eliot Pattison's The Skull Mantra.
Toilet Training. Six sad and angry lines from Harriet Lobdell.
Tory! Tory! Tory! Bob Odom. On Florence King's Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
*Totentänze. Hurd Bohner. Poetic artifacts from the early 1960s.
*Tree Talks. Huang Xiao-Yi. Chinese nature poetry, and then some.
Tripping. Book review by Reppy Duart, D.D.
Two Cultural Icons Reconsidered. Sylvia Sikeston on Austen and, um, Mahler.
What Happened to Movies That Matter? Ceci Lumley.
What Most Becomes an Ant? New staff member Jason Twinhaft's inauspicious debut.
Wheel Words. Quotes picked up here and there.
The Willed Suspension of Belief. Douglas Milburn. Life among the sleepwalkers
With a Vengeance. Sylvia Sikeston reviews Eileen Dreyer's latest, excellent mystery.
The World's Shortest Book Review. Ceci Lumley.
Write Me! Sylvia Sikeston decimates The Da Vinci Code.
The Wry Above, the Mud Below: An Appreciation of Dave White's Exile in Guyville. Temple Duciel.
Wusser Britches Gets Lost.
Wusser Britches Goes Outside.
Wusser Britches Makes a Friend.
Wusser Britches Goes Shopping.
Wusser Britches Goes to Church.
Wusser Britches Visits the Vet.
Wusser Britches Takes a Vacation.
Yea & Nay: On Reading Alice Munro for the First Time. Temple Duciel and Sylvia Sikeston.
The Zen Writer's Progress. Ten tortuous steps on the brambly path of the wholly word-addled.

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The following books and writers are discussed at various places in different issues of Magellan’s Log.
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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams.
Alger, Horatio.
Bellow, Saul. Herzog.
Bellow, Saul. Humboldt’s Gift.
Box, Edgar.
Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
Brown, Norman O. Life Against Death.
Brown, Norman O. Love's Body.
Buechner, Georg. Danton’s Death.
Burdett, John. Bangkok 8.
Burke, James Lee.
Chee, Alexander.
Child, Lee.
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness.
Crais, Robert.
Crouch, Tom. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and
    Orville Wright.
Cutler, Stan. Best Performance by a Patsy.
Cutler, Stan. The Face on the Cutting Room Floor.
Davis, William C. A Way through the Wilderness: The
    Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern
     Frontier.
De Vries, Peter. Comfort Me with Apples.
De Vries, Peter. The Mackerel Plaza.
Dexter, Pete. Train.
Dunant, Sarah. The Birth of Venus.
Eileen Dreyer. With a Vengeance.
Dunne, J.W. An Experiment with Time.
Fennelly, Tony.
Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel.
Fiedler, Leslie. The Return of the Vanishing American.
Forster, E.M. Maurice.
Fowles, John. The Magus.
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams.
Friedman, Kinky. A Case of Lone Star.
Friedman, Kinky. Greenwich Killing Time.
Frye, Stephen. Hippopotamus.
Frye, Stephen. The Liar.
Frye, Stephen. Making History.
Frye, Stephen. Moab is My Washpot.
Goodman, Paul. Compulsory Mis-education.
Goodman, Paul. Growing Up Absurd.
Hamilton, Alexander. The Federalist Papers.
Handler, David.
Herling, Gustaw. The Island.
Herling, Gustaw. A World Apart.
Hesse, Hermann. The Glass-bead Game [Magister Ludi].
Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha.
Hiaasen, Carl.
Huxley, Aldous. Island.
Isaacs, Susan.
Jennings, Gary. Aztec.
Kanon, Joseph. Los Alamos.
Kanon, Joseph. The Prodigal Spy.
Kellerman, Jonathan.
King, Florence. COnfessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
Klein, Joe. Primary Colors.
Lao-Tze.
Leavitt, David.
Legge, James.
Leonard, Elmore.
Legman, Gershon. The Rationale of the Dirty Joke.
Lessing, Doris. The Four-gated City.
Levine, Paul.
Mailer, Norman. Why We Are in Vietnam.
McGarrity, Michael.
McKibben, Bill. The Age of Missing Information.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media.
Mosley, Walter.
Munro, Alice.
Murdoch, Iris.
Nava, Michael.
Neill, A.S. Summerhill.
O’Conner. Flannery. Wise Blood.
Paretsky, Sara.
Pattison, Eliot. The Skull Mantra.
Piesman, Marissa.
Powers, J.F. Morte d'Urban.
Reich, Wilhelm. The Function of the Orgasm.
Renault, Mary.
Rice, Anne, Interview with the Vampire.
Roberts, Jane. Seth Speaks.
Roth, Philip. The Human Stain.
Sandford, Rick. The Boys Across the Street.
Schneebaum, Tobias. Keep the River on Your Right.
Shames, Laurence.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Stephenson, Neal.
Strassman, Rick. DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
Tracy, P.J.  Monkeewrench.
Venturi, Robert, and Brown, Denise Scott. Learning
     from Las Vegas.
Vidal, Gore. Essays.
Vidal, Gore. Myra Breckinridge.
Wambaugh, Joseph.
Wedekind, Frank. Spring Awakening.
Westlake, Donald E. Bank Shot.
Westlake, Donald E. Brothers Keepers.
Westlake, Donald E. Dancing Aztecs.
Westlake, Donald E. Don’t Ask.
Westlake, Donald E. Drowned Hopes.
Westlake, Donald E. Humans.
Westlake, Donald E. Kahawa.
Westlake, Donald E. Two Much.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest.
Wilhelm, Richard.
Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

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