Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.

It has, after all, been almost twenty years, and as Norma reminded me, a lot can happen, artwise, in that amount of time.

There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.

The loop was more than twice as fast after I had applied peephole optimization.