Some Really Exciting NEWS! My second book of essays is coming out (hopefully)!
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Wow. So this is happening!
Exactly two years ago, I pushed down a green button, launching a Kickstarter that would later enable me to publish my first book of essays called Things I Have Noticed. Now two years later I am doing it again and I am terrified/excited/bursting with joy.
– Crowdfunding is nerve wracking.
And I think of a parable by Kafka called “Before the Law”. I read it the first time many years ago at University and I remember getting highly frustrated with it. It’s about a man from the countryside that is trying to get entry to the law. But before the law sits a gatekeeper that is not allowing him to get in. The man is asking him if he will let him in later and the gatekeeper tells him that it is possible but not at this point. So the man waits hours and years. Trying everything to get access. Bribing the gatekeeper, questioning him. But the gatekeeper doesn’t change his mind. He also tells him that he is only the first gat…