world wide copyright 1996, Henry Warwick, all rights reserved.

PREFACE

What you are about to read is a rambling incoherent account of some fictional events in my life. I hope you find them interesting.

I would like to thank my wife, Beth, for her brilliance, spirit and support. She is the very best of the very best, and I thank God every day for the privilege of being her husband.

I also thank Alan Herrick for being such an excellent friend and asking me to contribute to this effort of AIM. I wish him and this magazine all the best.

I would like to thank my parents. My mom for being so strong and my father for being so lost. He showed me what not to be, and she showed me how to find that inner spirit which has enabled me to survive.

I would like to thank my friends without whose love, caring, and patience with me, none of this would have been possible.

I would like to thank the United States government for being the single greatest betrayal of the human spirit in recorded history (tip o' the hat to Billy B) for without this depraved disaster called modern industrial American Life, none of this would have been necessary.

This is being presented to you, dear reader, on the internet. But I basically did not begin this exercise with the internet in mind, hence the paragraphs tend to be more than one sentence, and my grammar tends toward the more literal and less conversational. I recommend that you print it out to a paper copy and read it at your leisure.

Thank you and I wish you all happiness and peace,

Henry Warwick