Masks

There will be time . . .
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; T.S. Eliot

Masks are void of all substance. They hide identity and project the image of another personality.
In tribal societies the mask is used to protect the individual from isolation, and to unite [...]



Here it comes again. . .

That feeling. It’s when a particularly long piece, like a novel, is finally in the bag. You know you’ve finished it. It’s over. It was your life for the last so many months, maybe years. And now it’s gone. It’s out in the world on its own little feet.
While you were involved with it lots [...]






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