After you've netsurfed around the world a few times, your imagination, creativity, and desire to participate in this phenomenon will come together […]

Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees.

The new socialists seemed to be just tuning in, uttering empty words, doing as the others did, following them, not sticking out, “chameleonizing” to the environment and to a socialist way of life.

And especially my wife Patricia, who spent weeks tramping with me through Lovecraft country