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T H E G O D S Nowadays I confuse the gods. The Greeks with the Hindus. The Egyptians with the Norse. I pray to Venus for bountiful crops. I ask Thor for a beautiful mate but he only snorts. I know how he must feel. Sometimes people stop me on the street and call me Steve. They start talking about the good times we had in Algeria. They sing the chorus of an Arabic song and then laugh and I’m supposed to laugh too because that’s what this guy Steve would do. To compensate for my fading memory, I’ve made a list of all the gods and what they’re responsible for. I carry it with me everywhere I go. You never know when you’ll run into a god on the street. And I don’t want to make a fool of myself. Like those strangers with all their talk of North Africa. And their idiot friend named Steve. 32 ...

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