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

and first observation of cosmic rays

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

Confucius and Mohammed as someone who revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a new way of living

Hocus Pocus Railroads so beautiful that they summonSome 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.