What luck!  To have been educated somewhere between centuries and then to have lived between generations and to have traveled to a frontier between millennia is a passage that now turns the greatest time warp in history into a familiar habitat and the echoing void into a nest. I have come to love it.  After which the illusion of brevity created by age adds a special objectivity counter to the more sluggish delusions of time.  Pure form, pure possibility. My motto is Tao Now! Dare one ask for more?

True, the microcosm -- or macro, according to which way you hold the lens -- has been rougher.  A pesky sore throat seven years ago turned out to be an advanced cancer.  Told that only shockingly destructive surgery could save me, I chose the more ultimate proposition, but submitted to months of chemotherapy, minor surgery, and radiation.  The monster vanished. Five years later, against all odds, I was pronounced cured.  Ah, but stay.

Lightning hit again the summer of 1998.  No connection with before.  But this time they snipped out my larynx and threw a half century of articulation into the pail.  Thus did my romance with the voices of silence discover new and ironic intimacy.  The Hephaestus Principal has lent the other expressive faculties new muscle.  I have learned the mystery of spinning visual delight in computer graphics, only to find whole new reserves of expression in those magic corridors of shape and sensibility.

I think you may see signs here  of a kind of rebirth after my night in the dark circles.  The computer process is totally endless and has me enthralled.  What you have here is all my own photography and drawing and all done onscreen -- no one is more startled than I am or more grateful.  Imagine.

Note: Paul Waldo Schwartz was born November 17, 1938.  He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia School of Journalism.

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