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This book is for my mother,

who knew right away that the Beatles were important,

and for my father, who never once complained about the noise.
Acknowledgments





Thanks are past due to Steven Brust, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey,
Pamela Dean, Pat Wrede, Cyn Horton, and Lois Bujold; they
always want to know what happens next. Thanks also to Terri, who
thought it was a good idea; Curt Quiner and Floyd Henderson,
motorcycle gurus; Pamela and Lynda, for the cookies; Val, for
comfort and threats; Mike, for the keyboards; and Knut-Koupeщ, for
all the guitars.

For the singinТ and dancinТ: Boiled in Lead, Summer of Love, Tъtes
Noires, Curtiss A., Rue Nouveau, Paula Alexander, Prince and the
Revolution, First Avenue, Seventh Street Entry, and the Uptown
Bar.

But most of all, to Will, for the whole shebang.
On the Folly of Introductions





Ideally, works of fiction donТt need to be explained. When I see
one of those scholarly and well-crafted essays that always seem to
precede a volume of Jane Austen or Dorothy Parker, I skip it. Yes,
I do. If it looks promising, I come back and read it when IТm done
with the fiction. But IТd rather not know beforehand that a character
is based on the authorТs brother, or that the author had just been
cruelly reнjected by his childhood sweetheart when he began
chapter 10. I like biography; but Charlotte Bronte isnТt Jane Eyre,
and Louisa Alcott isnТt Jo March, and I donТt want to be lured into