Rabbit and Robot
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Andrew Smith. Rabbit and Robot
CONTENTS
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright
Cheese Ball!
I Am the Worm
Cager Messer’s List of Things He’s Never Done
Hocus Pocus, and Kansas Is Full of Shit
A Visit to the Hotel Kenmore
Getting On Board
Mojave Field
Rabbit & Robot
In with the Cogs
Are We There Yet?
Printer Ketchup
Like Nothing Else in Tennessee
Parker, My Valet
The Longest Elevator Ride of My Life
Dr. Geneva, and What Space Does to Teenage Boys
Of Clocks, Cogs, and the Sense of Smell
Captains Outrageous
Canard à l’Orange
Good King Wenceslas, and a Serious Obelisk of Friendship
Deck 21
I Am the Worm
Never Send a Human to Do a Cog’s Job
It Really Is Christmas
The Proper Way to Prepare a Curry
I’m Pretty Sure We’re Upside Down Now
It Happens Here, I Guess
A Pedestrian Assessment of Alsatian History
A Cruise-Directing Phoenix from the Ashes
Stopped at the Wicket
The Boy from First Class, and a Fire in the Bank
An Infinity of Nevers, and a Mission to Find a Can Opener
Captains Get to Do Whatever They Want to Do
Right Side Up, Upside Down
There’s a Bright Side to Just About Everything
Unless You Happen to Be Dying to Die
We Raise Our Hands
A Most Unfortunate Dane
Billy Hinman Goes to Church
Getting Out of the Memphis Hotel
Thanks for Not Killing Me
Out of Bed and Into the Tennessee
The Lost Girls, and the Boy in the Bucket
Duncan’s Horses
Put Your Welcome Faces On!
The Giant Blue Fetus in Space
He Makes a Great Gasket
Tricky Words
The Things We’d Never Seen Before
Happy New Year, Happy No Year
Freedom, and an Unemployed Cog in the Hallway
Billy Hinman, Billy Hinman
This Was theTennessee
We Dance, and Queen Dot Accounts for Mexican Cuisine and Human Evolution
In Which We Find Out Where King Carlos Is and Suffer a Blow to Our Self-Esteem
Herman Melville Would Be Pleased
Eaters and Feeders
First Night of the Neveryear
It’s Time to Eat Now, and I Become Aware of My Balls
The Cruise Ship to End All Cruise Ships
The Nicest Giraffe I Ever Met
A Sleep Sandwich
Dumb Pointless Optimism
You Better Watch Out for the Monkeys
Cager Messer’s Can-Opener and Push-Ups List
Times That Aren’t Now
A Normal California Boy
Getting the Wrong Idea
Shakespeare’s Crowbar
The Porridge of Officer Dennis
If Thy Right Eye Offend Thee
What Kind of World
Mooney, Mooney!
This Is What We Saw
Are You One of Us?
Moon to Moon
Just Like Home
Helpless, Helpless, Helpless
V.1 Human Beings
Caveman & Spaceman
The Unlock Code
Righting the Ship
The Doctor and the Reverend
Epilogue: It Took Dominion Everywhere
Acknowledgments
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For Amy Sarig King
—ELVIS COSTELLO
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“I think I should wait up here in the tree for a few more days, Cager,” Parker said.
“It’s only a tiger, Parker.” But I wondered when—if ever—in the history of humankind, anyone had ever said It’s only a tiger. “But he’s a cog. He won’t do anything to us. Watch. I’ll show you so you can climb down from the tree.”
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