This second volume of John O'Loughlin's 'Collected Short Prose' dates from 1982-4 and differs from those prose pieces in the first volume, 'Two Sides of the Same Coin' (1976-81), only in the sense that some of the ones included here are, by and large, more ideologically conditioned, the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism having begun to sprout from the soil of his fertile intellect around 1984, and therefore coinciding with a number...