Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Vicissitudes of Publication

Afore embarking on a sweeping exploration of The Jungian Jungle: The Archetypal Punctle, our Speaker’s troubled fancy falls prey to the whip of a biting whim:

“Most Beloved and Esteemed Reader,

The nobility of Academe implores that I hold my authorship accountable for inconsistencies in publication shedules; and yet I conjecture: does not the fickleness of a gentle muse, mutable and wispy in her tendency to withdraw at the slightest provocation, pardon the creative mind’s inconstancy? Genius does not acquiesce to Chronian demands! (If naught else thy cerebrum appropriates from my life’s devotion, this adage do consider).

Fervently,

Yours truly”

Following this proto-prologue (affront the luminance of a steady screen) she heralds forth the first droppings of a creative flush—fidgets on her stool as she pushes on letters that spring:

“In the beginning there was pause.
And the book was without form, and most promising; and space was on the face of the page. And the muse of the creator wrote upon the page of the space.
And the creator said, Let there be words: and there were words.
And the creator saw the word, and it was good; and the creator divided the word from the space…”

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