When I scored essays, I remember one student, commenting on the early morning routine, mentioned when someone spoke over the "innercalm" - how I longed to hear the innercalm first thing in the morning

he describes himself as possessed of idiosocratic approaches: he once spent 35 years entertaining thoughts of being one way or another; he once uncovered an ancient civilization in the back yard, which his beagle puppy promptly reburied; once, late in the evening, checking on some burning leaves behind the well house, he encountered a ring wraith who was lost, lonely, unfamiliar with the local customs. And that has made all the difference.

he describes himself as a containing thousands of monkeys furiously typing: simian battalions pounding out sonnets; rivers of lemurs placarding Shakespeare in the parking lot; Godot waits as well - now serving 37