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When Kevin McCallister slides across the floor on toy cars, he is not fighting. He is dancing with the void.

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The next issue — — is already in development. Until then, lock your doors. But leave one window unlocked. Just to see who visits. When Kevin McCallister slides across the floor on

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In our lead essay for this issue — “The Booby Trap as Mandala” — staff writer Lenore K. argues that the classic Home Alone traps are actually meditative tools. The act of stringing a wire across the staircase, of greasing the steps, of heating a doorknob: these are rituals. They are the lonely person’s way of having a conversation with gravity, with physics, with the inevitable.

Because mainstream Hollywood got it wrong. They told you that being home alone was about defending your territory with paint cans on strings. We argue the opposite: