Thrown into Being

Reason for Being in the World, Chapter VIII

Frame from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey

Dear readers, you whom I fondly call Vitruvians, in the place I jauntily refer to as Planet Vitruvius, thank you for visting again. We are nearing the close of Reason for Being in the World, with only two more new chapters to come after today, in the new year. Then I begin redrafting behind the scenes toward the finished book while I continue to publish new pieces for American Samizdat and, in February, begin serializing my play What We Were Thinking Of. (I offered a snipped of dialogue from it on Notes the other day — incentive, maybe, to get on Notes, where I am active?) From what I understand from Substack, you may be seeing a special holiday subscription offer from them, in which case, apologies for the overkill — I think my offer below is better. You know, I hope, how much I appreciate your readership, and if you’re able, your paid subscription. The next year is going to be sadly historic. Here’s a way to support me in trying…