Epigraph

Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!

Come in closed where everyone can see!

I got a tale to tell, it isn't gonna cost a dime!

(And if you believe that,

we're gonna get along just fine.)

-Steve Earle

"Snake Oil" I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is . . .

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden