Challenge 1035

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In Gary Inbinder’s Blood on the Streets: What future violence is forecast in this chapter?
In Evan Witmer’s Capitulism: If Tyler can rent out unused parts of his brain to psychic tenants, where do the tenants’ bodies reside?
In Charles C. Cole’s Moving On: The narrator plans to rent himself out to a noncorporeal client. Does he get to choose who he will become?
In Douglas Young’s Looking for Bigfoot: How else might the story conclude in a way that would reunite Dudley and Zillah? Why do they look at each other rather than toward the source of the thrown rock? Might they run like crazy to flee the real Bigfoot?
In Gary Beck’s Aesthetics:
1. If art was created as consolation for or as a diversion from natural and human evil, does the aging out of performers and audiences for the classics cause or portend a descent into a barbaric age?
2. Did the classical musical composers cited in the poem live in a time that was less violent than our own and had audiences for their works that were larger than today’s?