UnCritic

Car doors burning bright red with a flash of lightning, yellow and loud, shouting like injured gazelles, the kind that screech in your dreams profanities unsuitable for this audience.The name is Detective Hitler, he says, and you awake with a start, and your heart jumps 1400 beats and you're dead, but death is transient and shallow, considering that brain tissue in rodents can be reactivated six hours after cardiac arrest; see citation 1, Charpak and Audinat, 1997.And the year is 1997, and you're still dreaming of car doors on fire, because you have nothing better to do but sit at home and watch television. Car bombings in Baghdad and Dama...