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Annie Dillard says:

"When you write, you lay out a line of words.  The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory:  is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow, or this time next year."

I'm trying to follow the words as best I can.  Like a stormchaser, I try not to lose sight of them as they threaten on the horizon.  I don't know if I can catch the words, and I'm not sure I would know what to do with them if I did.  But no matter where the line takes me, I will leave this record, sometimes rough and often shadowy, of the hunt.

I am not sure if this is the story of Daphne and Apollo, or of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.  I just hope that some good will come of this, in one form or another.

- Joshua Brumett

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