"The diary is full of Michaels's rage and frustration; it is also full of a wild kind of humor that can, under extreme circumstances, be the heart's only alternative to feeling--to paraphrase Swift's epitaph--lacerated by indignation."--From the preface by Michael Moon

Preface to the Duke Edition, by Michael Moon ix
Foreword, by Paul Foss xvii
Introduction, by Simon Watney xxi
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