"An appealingly extravagant wit," The Los Angeles Times. "Sheer intellectual bliss," The Los Angeles Times. "A Passionate and erudite critique of American culture," Library Journal. One man's time capsule, lovingly gathered and carefully packed and then deliberately dropped from a great height, shattering on impact into brilliant smithereens. A tender, funny, language-drunk mix of autobiography, confession, commonplace book, humanist battlecry, it's completely wonderful," Michael Herr, author of Dispatches.