I have now begun building a traveling commons--an eight-foot round redwood table atop four wheels and a car engine. I, and whoever else ends up joining me, will drive the table around the world. Talking, cooking, writing, sculpting, playing billiards ... the table escapes narrow definition of purpose.It will be a drama in which many people, with all their stories and concerns, thoughts and passions, will be the actors, the landscapes, the backdrops. It will be a community based on what people have to give--and there is everything to give. Some may offer food, wine, and a place to park; others, content and inspiration. The traveling commons is the stone in stone soup, the sand in the oyster. It is a magic carpet that flies--not above people, but through and within them. There will be a library, dictionary, typewriters, cameras, easels, and elegant china stored in compartments below deck. We will stop at universities, parks, capitals, housing developments, and sometimes even red lights--the traveling commons transcends class and country. We might stay in a place for weeks, or just a couple of minutes. As we gain recognition, and take on the momentum (wobble?) of a pottery wheel, we will sometimes write ahead, inviting artists, writers, and thinkers for a meal and a chat. Over the engine, using the heat of combustion, we will bake bread and make coffee. We may also have a zucchini or two growing in a well in the center of the table.

Engineered to operate on diesel fuel and light fuels such as JP-8 and kerosene, the DE Series units are designed for Euro 2 and EPA Tier I and Tier 2 emissions regulations. Plans also call for continued DE pump development to assist engine manufacturers in achieving Tier 3 emission regulations in 2006.The pumps are offered in three design configurations with progressively added features, according to Joseph Paganini, product manager, Electronic Pump Products, for the Windsor, Conn.-based fuel systems manufacturer. The configurations are defined as the DE 10, DE 20 and DE 30.

"Well you see, Officer, the truth of the matter is I had this going-away party, and it was such a great party I just had to leave afterwards." With one big breath I continued, "It was in the Phoenix Iron Works warehouse and hundreds of people came and whole motorcycle gangs rode through the darkness toward the bonfire which raged 40 feet high ''cause Jenny kept throwing on whole pallets and the concrete floor was exploding from the heat but Eric kept on barbecuing fifty chickens and tapping Bison Brew and people gave away cigarettes and motorcycles and secrets which you couldn''t hear because the musicians who were lit by red stage lights and looked a mile away blasted notes till morning and Steven jumped off the bus and hung upside-down on the rope swing to fly right through the flames emerging again to applause looking rather singed and two shades darker but grinning nonetheless like he might have seen something in the fire and then Big Dave heaved the top of the VW Bug over his head like the skin of a fierce animal and danced while Kate sang to the flickering shadows of the steel girders with her legs swinging from the speakers and poets sat around the table typing messages full of spirit and mystery such as `xjbacl qroty spark'' and what I''m getting at, Officer, is that I love my friends but that the table strives to overcome itself and reinvent itself again and again so after that party I just had to leave." The policeman had been growing paler and paler. When I finished he looked like he wished he''d never stopped us.

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