Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir

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Re­ ver­ tigo Ter­ race Books, a trade im­ print of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press, takes its name from the Me­ mo­ rial Union Ter­ race, lo­ cated at the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin–Mad­ i­ son. Since its in­ cep­ tion in 1907, the Wis­ con­ sin Union has pro­ vided a venue for stu­ dents, fa­ culty, staff, and ­ alumni to de­ bate art, music, pol­ i­ tics, and the is­ sues of the day.It is a place where the­ a­ ter, music, drama, lit­ er­ a­ ture, dance, out­ door ac­ tiv­ i­ ties, and major speak­ ers are made avail­ able to the cam­ pus and the com­ mu­ nity.To learn more about the Union, visit www.union.wisc.edu. Revertigo An c Me­ moir Floyd Skloot Ter­ race Books A trade im­ print of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press O f f-Kilte r Ter­ race Books A trade im­ print of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press 1930 Mon­ roe ­ Street, 3rd Floor Mad­ i­ son, Wis­ con­ sin 53711-2059 uw­ press.wisc.edu 3 Hen­ rietta ­ Street Lon­ don WC2E 8LU, En­ gland eu­ ros­ pan­ book­ store.com Copy­ right © 2014 by Floyd ­ Skloot All ­ rights re­ served. No part of this pub­ li­ ca­ tion may be re­ pro­ duced, ­ stored in a re­ trieval ­ system, or trans­ mit­ ted, in any for­ mat or by any means, dig­ i­ tal, elec­ tronic, me­ chan­ i­ cal, photo­ cop­ y­ ing, re­ cord­ ing, or oth­ er­ wise, or con­ veyed via the Inter­ net or a web­ site with­ out writ­ ten per­ mis­ sion of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press, ex­ cept in the case of brief quo­ ta­ tions em­ bed­ ded in crit­ i­ cal ar­ ti­ cles and re­ views.­ Printed in the ­ United ­ States of Amer­ ica Li­ brary of Con­ gress ­ Cataloging-in-Publication Data­ Skloot, Floyd, au­ thor. Re­ ver­ tigo: an ­ off-kilter me­ moir / Floyd ­ Skloot. pages   cm ISBN 978-0-299-29950-7 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-29953-8 (e-book) 1. ­ Skloot, Floyd.   2. Au­ thors, ­ American—20th cen­ tury—Biog­ ra­ phy. 3. Au­ thors, ­ American—21st cen­ tury—Biog­ ra­ phy.   I. Title. PS3569.K577Z46    2014 818´.54—dc23 [B] 2013028359 For Bev­ erly His dizzy brain spun fast, And down he sunk.­ George Gor­ don, Lord Byron, from Don Juan, Canto II, 110 ...