the readiness is all
February 1, 2009
How I’ve not made this quip before, waiting for the T, I don’t know:

“It’s not that the muffled majesty of authorship doesn’t here ostensibly reign; but I catch myself again shaking it off and disavowing the pretence of it while I get down into the arena and do my best to live and breathe and rub shoulders and converse with the persons engaged in the struggle that provides for the others in the circling tiers the entertainment of the great game. There is no other participant, of course, than each of the real, the deeply involved and immersed and more or less bleeding participants …”
How I’ve not made this quip before, waiting for the T, I don’t know:
