Missing?

Patrick Kurp, " You Want to Be Immortal? Disappear ," Anecdotal Evidence (August 3, 2-26): What has disappeared? Ambrose Bierce, Weldon Kees, Jimmy Hoffa. Aristotle s second book of Politics , three-decker novels, rhupunts. Typewriters, payphones, civility. Perhaps he meant Poetics instead of Politics . Hat tip: Eric Thomson.