With A Pencil And Paper,

You Get Into The Habit Of Being Angry And Hurt By Life, And Then When Something Good Happens You Can't Accept It Because It Doesn't Fit The Pattern.

Nature Can Seem Cruel, But She Balances Her Books.

When Other People First Became Aware Of The Cow, They Expressed Concern And Anxiety. They Suggested Strategies For Getting The Animal Out Of Molly's Parlor: Remedies And Doctors And Procedures, Some Mainstream And Some New Age. They Related Anecdotes Of Friends Who Had Removed Their Own Cows In One Way Or Another. But After A While They Had Exhausted Their Suggestions. Then They Usually Began To Pretend That The Cow Wasn't There, And They Preferred For Molly To Go Along With The Pretense.

The Fashion Pages Of Magazines Such As Cosmopolitan Now Seem To Specialize In Telling The Career Girl What To Wear To Charm The Particular Wrong Type Of Man Who Reads Playboy, While The Editorial Pages Tell Her How To Cope With The Resulting Psychic Damage.

There Is A Peculiar Burning Odor In The Room, Like Explosives. The Kitchen Fills With Smoke And The Hot, Sweet, Ashy Smell Of Scorched Cookies. The War Has Begun.