It feels like I've stepped through the looking glass and am wandering in a topsy-turvy world where the fixpoints we have lived with for decades have gone. Not just moved... gone.

She could only reply that I was welcome to any thing she could tell me in return for the kindness I had shown to Anne. But as she was not very quick and ready, at the best of times, in talking to strangers, she would beg me to put her in the right way, and to say where I wished her to begin.

For Jolas, the modern poet's function involved a rediscovery of the vertical elements in creation, establishing through art a Sense of the miraculous through new forms such as the anamyth (a narrative of what he termed preconscious relationships) and the psychograph (a hallucinatory prose text), both classifications which he might have used to describe Crane's The Bridge.

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.