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This, I’m told, is this issue’s loose theme:
“Off the beaten path.”
Okay.
It’s not as though my mind is teeming with themes, and it’s always nice to fit in. So I free-associate: “Off the…hmm. Beaten…path…hmm.” And I come up with… Oh no! Not that! I come up with the chunk. In my New Orleans courtyard, the chunk sits just inches downriver…
(That’s how we do directions in New Orleans: lakeside, riverside, upriver, downriver. Though there may be no water
