“But why am I to go? Who allows me to?
I am not Aeneas, I am not Paul
neither I nor any man would think me worthy;

and so, if I should undertake the journey,
I fear it might turn out an act of folly -
you are wise, you see more than my words express.”

As one who unwills what he willed, will change
his purpose with some new second thought,
completely quiting what he first had started,

so I did, standing there on that dark slope,
thinking, ending the beginning of that venture
I was so quick to take up at the start.

— Dante

While not everyone may be able to master the art, anyone should be able to become a practitioner through practice and implacable patience. It is my belief that only through the pressure of writing for a public will poor writers ever try to move from crock to craft. Hence this weblog is born and may life’s forks not lead you to rue this day.

I’m a rather old-fashioned geek; the best way to contact me is via email: norbert@pithyless.com