1. "The Lab," #15220.

   This is a framing narrative for the essay I am deconstructing. The institutional and pharmocological setting parallels (and contrasts with) the institutionality of Marie Martinez's essay.

2. "The Salt Marsh," #15397.

3. "The Path," #15400.

4. "The Creek," #15405.

   The above three spaces transpose excerpts from Marie Martinez's essay into the MOO. I have added the descriptions of the soldiers to make explicit the arbitrary way in which the editors have defined "nature."

5. "The Editors' Commentary," #15239.

   This space represents a classroom with two signs in it, "Figurative Language" and "An Inappropriate Figure of Speech." Both of these signs contain excerpts from the editors' commentary on Marie Martinez's essay. In these excerpts the editors' condemn the comparison of the salt marsh to a "soothing drug," while lauding its comparison to "van Gogh" or "motor oil."

6. "A Reference to Drugs," #15412.

   This space should indicate some more political reasons for the editors' choices in what they consider an appropriate prose style.

7. "The Chapel," #15410.

   This space should sum up everything that has not been summed up yet. The Preacher's sermon makes explicit the connection between the editors's ideological orientations and their suggestions regarding Marie Martinez's figures of speech. I intended this to be something of an alternative to the confined definition of nature the editors have--thus, the large open windows blur the distintion between the inside and the outside of the building, between nature and institution. Of course, there is some self parody here.

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