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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do any­thing really good. — William Faulkner I’m fin­ish­ing a story right now that is frus­trat­ing me. First, I should be work­ing on the long project.  I’ve set myself a dead­line and need to keep on it. Sec­ond, the story is […]

A Japan­ese poet once wrote that there is no util­ity in metaphor, that in the mod­ern world the only valu­able expres­sion is of words that are spe­cific to one thing. This is lan­guage as the table of exis­ten­tial ele­ments: when used pre­cisely, words make an objec­tive real­ity that we can use to breach the gaps between […]