from investigating the German activity there. The Germans had to be there for some classified reason. What was that? It stands to reason and starts to make sense that this trip by our government was of serious national security importance, and was absolutely handled that way. With all the massive resources used, and

popular culture is where we go to talk to and agree with one another; to simplify ourselves; to find our herd. It’s like going to the Automat to buy an emotion. The thrills are cheap and the payoffs predictable and, after a while, the repetition is a bummer. Whereas books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it’s full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.

Some evidence suggests they may have come up from some of those holes through the earth,