--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@...> wrote: > > .. I guess the preface does warn you: "It is all first-draft material, which > he did not live to excerpt and polish." > > SW > Nevertheless, there's something remarkably powerful and insightful in that very small volume. Perhaps in some ways we benefit from the lack of ex post facto self-editing, second guessing and continued efforts to say it better in this case. Sometimes, as my wife once quoted Allan Ginsberg with whom she studied poetry, as saying: it's really "first thought, best thought." SWM ========================================= Need Something? Check here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrslinks/