178 BETWEEN ISLANDS 1 If every eighth element listed by atomic weight is noxious, is that proof of intelligent design? 2 Here’s your far-fetched plan, glinting in slanted light – except “plan” is wrong. Thought comes before or after, but you interpose yourself and that red hourglass which you think nothing of. 3 Next to the thoroughfare, between the shopping plaza and the medical complex, a man in a straw hat leans on a pink pasteboard sign