never knowing whether the magic they bear will be enough to reverse the corruption wrought by Lord Foul

so beautiful that they summon their own share of smiles and tears

and first observation of cosmic rays

and that powerful weapon we call the Holy Bible

Hocus Pocus Railroads never knowing whether the magicSome get all the luck but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex Vietnam vet, ex college professor, and now a TB stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one ludicrous farce after another. Here, on scraps of paper pilfered from the prison library, he recounts his own story for posterity, revealing the hypocrisy and injustices of a world that just doesn't want him to thrive.