For a guy so enamored with inventions of the mind, one would think that Dream World would provide the ultimate escape from reality, a factory of imagination. My sleeping dreams, however, only magnify the frustrations and obstacles of my conscious existence. Trapped within my nighttime visions, I struggle to report for work on time, impeded …
As a youth, under the direction of Dad and the command of many Catholic school taskmasters, I got pretty good at looking up the answers to my own many questions, as well as the queries of others. I loved the encyclopedia, even though I often had to refer to a supplementary volume—the dictionary—to interpret the …