Category: Beast
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The Enforcer
After dinner at the year-end Cub Scout banquet, I was invited on stage to assist a magician in performing one of his tricks. Up to this point his performance had been quite convincing.
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The Exaltation of the Beast
I’ve always enjoyed the climactic scene of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz when the Wizard, the little, unimpressive man behind the curtain, is exposed as a fraud.
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The Nature of the Beast
I am of an age when the expression “chip off the old block” was used to describe a son who resembled his father in some characteristic way.