Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms Publisher / National Gallery Washington Most of us long to

Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lost to agitation and worry

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

from bygone weather to the dinosaurs

the aesthetic is evidently shifting in surprising ways

Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms Publisher / National Gallery Washington Most of us long toHe spoke of a new kind of terre mauvaise, of strange regions, connected, indeed, with definite geographical limits upon the earth, yet somehow apart from them and beyond them. A poet comes to a fork in the road where three parallel destinies orbit the same violent fate; a childs rebellious escapade to the city becomes a nightmare when the portal to return is nowhere to be found; rather than abdicate, Kaiser Wilhelm II leads the High Seas Fleet on a