A mermaid's map floats by on the rolling green

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On the brighter side, the table of contents for the inaugural issue of Stone Telling has been announced and it is, as they used to say in the days when cars were pop culture, a doozy.

You know, I am perfectly aware that Jack London was the writer's birth name, but it makes him sound like a genius of place. I wonder if he would have liked that. He was born in San Francisco.

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Ha, I never heard his name as place. (I'm really bad with names that way; I don't hear them as regular words, just sounds of a person's name). But now, as I imagine it, Jack London does not feel like what he writes at all. My immediate image was a London street at night, shiny with rain and a man with a top hat and cane and less than noble intentions. I think there's a melding of London and Jack the Ripper in that.

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My immediate image was a London street at night, shiny with rain and a man with a top hat and cane and less than noble intentions. I think there's a melding of London and Jack the Ripper in that.

It may be unavoidable . . .