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You are about to experience Magellan's Log, a unique on-line magazine. We suggest that you first consider the following questions:

1. Are any of the following important in your life?

Boyd McDonald, Dalton Trumbo, Allegri, Kinky Friedman,
Germaine Greer, Lascaux, Hank Williams, Sr., Bertolt Brecht,
Roky Erickson, horny Christians, Mary Shelley, Thales,
Emma Kirkby, Tranquillity Base, Gottschalk, Shiva, George Grosz,
The 1962 Cadillac Eldorado, Wilhelm Reich, Gopi Krishna,
tomandandy, Novalis, Leonard Cohen, Las Vegas, Lao-Tze,
The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver, Tuli Kupferberg),
Quilting, Marshall McLuhan, Josquin Desprez, Masturbation, Puritans,
A.S. Neill, optical illusions, Albrecht Dürer, HAL 9000,
Brainteasers, Interstate highways, circumcision, J.M.W. Turner,
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Hölderlin, CB radio, ESL,
Marissa Piesman, Paul Goodman, Emily Dickenson,
Time travel, mantras, Aldous Huxley, suspension of disbelief,
Stan Cutler, Michael Nava, Wolfram von Eschenbach,
Wittgenstein, Texas mysticism, Herculaneum, Donald E. Westlake,
Frank Wedekind, Saul Bellow, David McKay, Eadweard Muybridge,
Derek Jarman, Mary Renault, Lang Lang, Philip Johnson,
M.U.L.E. , flowers, Tiananmen Square, Douglas Traherne Harding,
Chinese landscape painting, Fellatio, Goldberg Variations,
Bill McKibben, Wagner, Jane Jacobs, homophobia, linguistics,
Raging hormonal Imbalance, Beauty, Tobacco, Oak Creek Canyon,
Heinrich von Kleist, Lisztomania, Natchez Trace, trees, Lieder,
pH, Yo Kubota, Mojo, Desiderata, Chapel of St. Basil,
Iris Murdoch, SETI, Herman Kahn, Martin Waldseemuller
Neural Nets, Pacifica Radio, Joe Klein, Zen Buddhism
Gershon Legman, Big Bend National Park, Jane Roberts, Georg Büchner,
Patanjali, The 1950 LeSabre, Caravaggio, Robert Venturi,
Richard Dadd, Michela Petri, Handel, Marcia Ball, CU-SeeMe,
Quantum Theory, Alienation, Greek Sculpture, Clouds,
Norman O. Brown, Meditation, Cunnilingus, Alamogordo,
J.W. Dunne, Mark Rothko, P.I.S.P.A., San Juan de la Cruz,
Sedona, Filippo Brunelleschi, Hermann Rorschach, Sengtsan, Doris Lessing,
Joe Klein, Thomas Cole, or, of course, Paul Krassner.

2. Do you think the chances are excellent that a hundred years from now Myra Breckinridge will be considered one of the great 20th century novels?

3. Do you consider it a great loss that Glenn Gould died at the age of 50?

4. Was what Enrico Fermi did in a makeshift laboratory beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field in Chicago more important than what Neil Armstrong did on the moon? (Hint: In that unlikely location, Fermi in 1939 achieved the first controlled, sustained nuclear reaction.)

5. Do you find that, as historic sites go, Seneca Falls is of more lasting importance than Gettysburg? (Hint: The world's first international women's meeting was held there in 1848.)

6. Would you agree with the following analogy:
Greed : America = The Bubonic Plague : 14th century Europe?

7. Do you think that contemplation of nature, whether a blade of grass or a forest, is a powerful balm for what ails you?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you may well enjoy Magellan's Log. If you answered mostly "no", well, what the heck? It's all just more Internet blather, right? You might as well come on in and check it out:

Magellan's Log I*
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*Hmmm. What, you may ask, is this Roman numeral "I" doing here? It's not a volume number, and doesn't really refer to first in a time-sequence of pages. Think of Magellan's Log more as a structure, a building, a castle, if you will, with several large "rooms" from which other wings of the structure branch off. So, when you get to Magellan's Log I, you will notice there is also a Magellan's Log II, a III, etc. They are--if you'll excuse the Zen-speak--all the same and all different.

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