The Bearings, Vol 5, No 16
Articles in this issue
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Allegorical dialogue in hell in which Satan identifies a new arrival as a Chicagoan from his business card featuring Satan astride a firecracker.
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Satirical sketch in which an editor's request to St. Peter for photographs of celebrated scorchers is redirected to the third brimstone pool, where a Kodaker takes their portraits on a red-hot cinder path.
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Comic verse about a young man named Michael who finds bicycle riding too dangerous and switches to a safety, seeking a machine that can handle bricks, boulders, and bumps.
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Observation that a pavement laid over dirt makes a good road, but dirt allowed to accumulate on pavement makes a bad one — a rule that does not always work both ways.
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Wry musing that if wheels remained as perfect as they seem in the showroom, the world would have fewer pessimists and more angels.
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A wheelman cursing a repeatedly punctured tire is told he is right to invoke Job's patience, for Job himself may have been thinking of a pneumatic when he questioned filling one's belly with the east wind.
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Brief verse contrasting the boundless optimism of youth, where failure is not in the dictionary, with the sobering realities that await after a racing career ends.
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Comic verse declaring that while the author is no pessimist, one thing is certain: the English professional is even blacker than he is painted.