“Conflict is a condition of intellectual life, and, I believe, its pleasure.”
“… language—informed, shaped, reasoned—will become the hand that stays crisis and gives creative, constructive conflict air to breathe, startling our lives and rippling our intellect.”
“… the critical voice that upholds tradition and communal values and that also provides occasion for an individual to transcend and/or defy group restrictions.”
“just as we watch other life, other life watches us” (TM)
“The obvious stole over us like awe,
That it was our own silhouette we saw”
–A.E. Stallings, Sublunary
