Explore "30-Day Wonder" by Richard Wilson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
ALIEN, _n._ An American sovereign in his probationary state. -- Ambrose Bierce
It's pretty complicated to explain why a person who lives in New York State, as I do, has to go through New Jersey to get home from his office in New York City. It has to do with (1) the way New York's border slopes northwest from the city and (2) a straight line being the shortest distance between two points. People who half-grasp these phenomena remain convinced that my village, High Tor, N. Y., is a short drive from any old place in New Jersey.