Mike Nelson's Mind over Matters

Chapter One

Do Not Disturb
(I've Got That Covered)

Faced with a choice between two doors, behind one of which is a pack of ravenous tigers and Siegfried—and Roy (!)—and behind the other a pleasant stay in a hotel room for several days, Id have to say, "Bring on the big cats—just please keep those German guys away from me."

My illustration, which started out as a simple device to show my dislike of staying in hotel rooms but ballooned into a complicated and overpunctuated attack on Siegfried and Roy, should not distract from the fact that I don't like to stay in hotel rooms. Not by myself, anyway. And please don't take that to mean that I like spending time in hotel rooms with Siegfried and Roy, because nothing that you could conceive of, ever, could be further from the truth. All right, I could conceive of, I suppose, a room large enough, a suite, with locking doors between all the rooms, where I might be able to spend time with Siegfried and Roy—under duress, mind you! And without their opening act. That guy's the real troublemaker.

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