I'm an architect and writer, working in Chicago. I want to know: how and where do blimps land? What are the origins of cyborgs? Is there anything better than escape from dystopia? How important really is one's GRE score?
Ann Lok Lui / annloklui [at] gmail [dot] com
With this meager funding, Bates spent eleven happy years of hard work in the Amazon. He headed out into the forest early each morning dressed in boots, trousers, an old hat, and a colored shirt with a pin cushion on the front for keeping six different sizes of insect pins at the ready. He carried a shotgun over his left shoulder, one barrel loaded with No. 10 shot, the other with No. 4, for anything from a small bird to an animal the size of a goose. In his right hand, he carried his butterfly net. A leather bag at his left side held ammunition and a box for insect specimens. A game bag on his right held further supplies, with leather thongs for hanging lizards, snakes, frogs, large birds and other specimens. And having spent a long day in the field, Bates often worked late into the night preserving his new treasures and protecting them from rats, ants, and other scavengers.
