essays
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Conditioning Produces Happy Utopia
[Published in the Emory Wheel, Tuesday, March 6, 1973, page 8, cont. page 12 (Vol 54 Num 17); typos and typographical mistakes corrected to match what I submitted. This was a follow-up satirical piece to The Idiocy of Emotion published a month earlier.] by D. J. Swift Recently I have read and heard of complaints
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To Let a Chemistry Building Grow…
[SInce this wasn’t satire, I submitted it anonymously under the pen name David Morningmist, which I’d never used before. In this case, I had to make myself known to members of the Emory Wheel staff, specifically a couple of students who were in my Sociology class that quarter. I met them at lunch, and we
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The Idiocy of Emotion
[I submitted this anonymously, including the fake intro (so they would understand it was satire) to the Emory Wheel. I didn’t expect them to publish the cover letter, but evidently they felt it helped identify the piece as satire. It was published Tuesday, February 6, 1973, on page 5, under my high school pen name,