The Associated Press recently reported that a man in Michigan encountered an alligator in a corn field. Leaving aside the obvious opportunities for terror this provides Halloween corn maze aficionados, this event strikes me as a bad sign. Anyone who has read Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins knows to be on the lookout for vines sprouting through cracks in the concrete. Perhaps vines are nothing if alligators are now taking up residence in places like rural Michigan and cities like Chicago, Boston and New York.

Pick out your room at the nearest Howard Johnson motel. Begin to stockpile Vienna sausages, Campbell soup and Early Times whiskey. Things are getting interesting.

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