Mark Cunningham

Second Story

Box   

        When things go wrong, you have a practice room, a model of how to behave.  Carton books when their messages bore; realign the yin and yang of shoes when they get under, rather than on, the feet.  But be careful.  Leave something inside too long and presto!--mildew and silverfish.  Even at your most ambitious, aim for less than magic, say a shift in varieties of the mundane.  B. F. Skinner used a box to teach pigeons to play ping-pong and pace in figure eights.

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