uncanny web


October 31, 2021

To do or not to do

Oh, just do it already.”

OK, but…as she said last March: “In advance, I'll say I won't be able to engage this much further. (I've already lost a bit of time I'm supposed to be working on something else); but again thanks for your reading of my work.”

I can’t be more perspicuous.

“You’re too amused.”

It’s Halloween Sunday. What can I say?

“All souls will wonder.”



I didn’t “do it.” I didn’t send the above email draft (initially titled “Literary life for a democratic ethos”). I recognized it might be frightening to her.


July 29, 2022

I deleted the above posting, late autumn 2021, but I’ve decided to make it part of a true story.