I'd been working on a long, drawn-out editing and encoding chore (a complex piece written back in '97, still unfinished), when suddenly I realized that an SPR epoch was horribly mis-representative.
[ For those of you who have no idea what I mean / Everybody else can scroll down to the next paragraph:
At my website, SPR, all my writings are divvied up by date into “epochs”, so that visitors can view work from one life-passage at a time, if they want to, since each epoch has its own (shorter) drop-down menu. (That is not, by far, the only way to read the pieces but, if curious, you can see for yourself all the many approaches I've devised over there. SPR is linked above you, upper right.) These so-called “life-passages” are defined by me in a not-terribly-typical manner: By personal spiritual evolution. Each of these spans of time —which vary in length— are given a title which in most (but not all) cases comes from a piece written within that epoch and which piece is evocative —or downright descriptive— of my essential spiritual focus during that epoch. (i.e., The title-piece is a stand-alone description of the Product —capital “P”— of that epoch.) In other words, when I “enter” a brand new phase in my spirituality (or “exit” one) the “event” or “moment” of that specific transition marks the beginning of a new epoch in my writing. ]
After spending some time figuring out exactly what needed done —and then doing it which, to truly wrap it up, involved a lot more grunt-work than you may imagine? or, at least, a lot more than I had imagined— I took yet another break from encoding/editing to review the remainder of SPR to see if there were any other similar oversights. There was: One.
So, in sum, I've reorganized SPR from 1971 through 1994 —everything else was fine as-was— to include two heretofore unrecognized epochs: Without them their following epochs, in both cases, were NOT truly representative of their spirituality or, to put it probably more accurately, not EXACT ENOUGH to suit the Rabbit's sensibilities. (I have absolutely no idea how I never noticed this before, but I really did not. Maybe I was too preoccupied with Life to notice, back when I coined the original SPR epochs? It was glaring to me, though, when I did see it.)
None of this probably makes much sense to most of you —and is of even less interest?— so I'll end in saying that, in order to do the work involved in the above tasks, what I've been preoccupied with is understanding both my lives[ 1 ] —either one as symbolized-within[ 2 ] its “other”, then both together as “One”— through the model of a more specific and better-defined sequence of life-passages. And in doing this I have created Sugarpie Rabbit's writing-epochs to reflect them most truthfully, since —I say, in risk of onerous ridicule from any number of you— my writing is, has always been, the “work product” of my spirituality.
This may, at the moment, interest only me —and it won't for much longer, now that I've finished— but I never do anything halfway. So now I feel satisfied that across the coming year, as I add more material to SPR, the growing epochs' contents —a couple of which are, as yet, grossly under-represented— will become more and more spiritually edifying. (One can hope?) At any rate, I personally learn much that way —and not just about “me”, or I probably wouldn't bother. (i.e., Doing this sort of thing for my website —and, ultimately, for print-volumes— actually serves at the same time to refine my faculties of discernment.) It's a useful discipline I highly recommend to all of you, no matter what forms your own personal “reviews” most naturally take.
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FOOTNOTES
1
It's no typo. Explanation of this odd statement can be understood from this narrative: http://www.wcwcw.com/spr/portal/poetry/brickstopshere-preface.html
(for a different reason, that URL is also given below)
2
I am dissatisfied with this word, “symbolized-within”. I replaced several choices, most recently “contained-within”. None of them really describes what I mean, which is (at least, for me) a visual concept. Sort of like snipping off the corner of a hologram only to discover the entire picture encoded there, as well.
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(continued)
Because I don't know that what I've done will TRULY interest very many of you (since epoch-prefaces are 100% biographical-ONLY), I am not inclined to add pastes of these to TCB, just to save you guys a few clicks from the main “In the Face of Love” page at SPR...
...and because, in addition to the prefaces I just wrote for the two new epochs, three existing epoch-prefaces also had to be rewritten (one MASSIVELY— that one, a real bear to do)...
...which is five epoch-prefaces out of a total of seven in all (and some of you who ARE interested may have never yet known to read even one of them?)...
...below I will just list URLs for all seven prefaces and indicate with a PRECEDING word (or phrase) those which are now changed. You can check out their webpages if you want to learn more.
(This is nuttin but a convenience: The “ordinary” way to them involves two extra clicks each, plus some “back” maneuvering, each time, to return yourselves to the WRITINGS page to get to another epoch-link. —Ain't she sweet?)
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DIRECT URLs TO ALL SPR EPOCHS-PREFACES:
Author's Preface to _end of a spring: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, 1966 through 1970_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/endofaspring-preface.html
NEW — Author's Preface to _blood: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, 1971 through Spring 1984_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/blood-preface.html
REVISED — Author's Preface to _black hole: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, Summer 1984 through Summer 1994_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/blackhole-preface.html
NEW — Author's Preface to _a sound: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, Autumn 1994 through 1996_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/asound-preface.html
COMPLETELY REWRITTEN, PLUS FOOTNOTES — Author's Preface to _In A Rib: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, 1997 through Spring 2006_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/inarib-preface.html
Author's Preface to _The Brick Stops Here: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, Summer 2006 through 12 February 2007_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/brickstopshere-preface.html
Author's Preface to _Gorillas in the Midst: The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, from 13 February 2007_
http://www.wcwcw.spr/portal/poetry/gorillas-preface.html
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