For all the artistic types who wished they were Leonardo Da Vinci, here's your chance to express yourself. Now you can Botox "The Mona Lisa."

APPOINTED ROUNDS

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor gloom of night shall keep the postman from his appointed rounds? Well, we hope so. But what about choice reading matter?

Your piece about The Realist brought me back to the summer of 1963 when I was a 19-year-old college student delivering the U.S. mail in Forest Hills, N.Y. One of the mail carriers had a Realist subscriber on his route and that copy of the magazine invariably wound up in the men's room, where all the Post Office employees read it to ribbons before it was returned to the routeman and delivered a few days late. No mail was ever lost, only delayed, to the intellectual nourishment of the nation's postal employees.

— Peter "Hurricane" Carroll

It's reassuring to know that Krassner's subversive literary enthusiasms infected at least some federal employees. I feel certain that America's prototypical if contradictory subversive, Thomas Jefferson, would have approved.