As Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman embodying Luke Jackson, promises "I
can eat fifty [hard-boiled] eggs.". My promise to
write
two thousand essays was as daunting. To ante up something like
that, is what you may call my impossible promise. It's one I
made to
Werner
during a conversation for expanding
his work's
internet presence.
Sitting
with what I'd given
my word
to, I got that fulfilling such a promise would have at least two
impacts: firstly, realizing the
work in progress
goal of exanding
Werner's work's
internet presence;
secondly, realizing my own investments in fulfilling such a
promise:
Werner's
and
the latter of which is whence
this internet series of essays
derives its title. I estimate I'll fulfill my promise to
write
two thousand essays, two to three years from now. Now that there
are one hundred essays remaining, this is no time to ease up or
rest on laurels, having been
writing
them now for
twenty years.
In
these twenty years,
there's been an ongoing real sense that these essays
write
themselves - as strange as that may sound. Said in
another way, there's been an ongoing real sense of being called
to write them. Their subject matter presents itself. I simply
transcribe it. The titles present themselves. I simply make note of
them, and then I wait until the subject matter follows. It's been
said about
Werner
"You'll talk about him forever.". It's true. These essays are
evidence of that. And it's not so much evidence of the fact that
there's a lot to say about him (and there is that too). It's that
transformation is irrepressibly calling for itself to be shared.
And the more it's shared, the more it wants to be shared. It's its
own perpetual motion machine. There is nothing else like it.
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