Quotidiana

Patrick Madden is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit his Web site www.quotidiana.org.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things Laughter Remember Death Garlic Ego Vici Mundum Gravity and Distance Panis Angelicus Asymptosy Singing Hepatitis Finity

Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . There is a religiosity here, though not the usual kind. It's a glow on the horizon, a low light, something to think our way toward." - Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Charming and liberating." - Robert Birnbaum, Morning News