Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.

The tumultuous debate within me gradually was resolving itself into an icy purposivity midway between determination and resignation.

When, exactly, Europeans first stumbled upon the bones of an American mastodon is unclear. An isolated molar unearthed in a field in upstate New York was sent off to London in 1705; it was labeled the “tooth of a Giant”.

1657, October 3, William Clarke, Letters from Flanders; reprinted in: