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Blogs by William F DeVault
mental floss 3/23/2005 12:18:58 PM
I got two major emails today...okay, many major emails, but these two are for the ages...one was a blurb for the back cover of INVOCATO from a respected writer whose acquaintance I recently made online. I won't give a name, or any info from the blurb, but it was marvelous. when you see the back jacket, you'll grok.
The other was from an editor of a poetry ezine that has, in the past, both published my works and reviewed my books (and very positively)...she declined to blurb my book, critiqued the format of the book (which has not been finalized), my grammar in my introductory notes (I write as I speak) and the "obscurant" school of many of my works.
sigh...so little time, so many saracens. good thing I quit slaying infidels, or I'd be in jail by now.
kids: twenty years ago I would not have accepted the first email as being accurate to my position. the second would have devastated me.
guess that, although the artist in me hates it when I am rejected, the existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God (this is the exact sort of circumstance that had me coin that phrase the first time.)
now, on to more interesting material like my (currently non-existent) sex life. need to do something about that.
I realized yesterday, in the words of Billy Cryystal, that my life is, at this point a "do over". I am forever being mistaken for being in my mid-thirties, I am at the height of my creative powers. still gotta drop some more weight, but that's happening. I am pondering pulling an Elizabeth and becoming married to my work, my writing, and taking a vow...nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
God has been kind to me. I'll try to be smarter, wiser and a better steward of the good fortune that has been visited upon me.
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