Now that legal tender has lost its tenderness, and its very legality is so often in question, it may be time to consider the zero— long rows of them, empty, black circles in clumps of three, presided over by a numeral or two. Admired, even revered, these zeros of imaginary money capture the open gaze of innocents like a vision of earthly paradise. Now the zero has a new name: The Economy. As for that earthly paradise—well...
From Coming to That by Dorothea Tanning. Copyright © 2011 by Dorothea Tanning. Used with permission of Graywolf Press. All rights reserved.