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Now, to the business of being a good Freeper...
Don’t excerpt your own blogs. Others on this site will accuse you of blog-pimping, which none of us like, nor is it necessary.
If you are going to excerpt, perhaps you could include enough to at least start getting to the point of the headline - and I would think that you should be able to do that within the first 2 or 3 paragraphs.
I’m just saying...
Very good piece, very well written, erudite, even EXCEPT- if you are very good with words you should not throw crap on your work by not proofreading it. The piece is full of errors of the affect/effect, retrospective/retroactive variety. I guess it is some kind of literacy disability but I find it difficult to follow a piece that is full of solipsisms like this.