title: An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things
abstract: Do Titans also have helpless childhoods, awkward adolescences, and false starts that would noiselessly fall by the wayside, were it not for the masterpieces that followed?Or are bits of later genius somehow extractable from everything a Titan writes, at any stage, and thus worthy of our reverent recuperation?So deep are the shadows cast by masterpieces that the work that precedes them can be dismissed as a mere preliminary and at the same time-paradoxicallyenhanced, hyper-scrutinized for hints o
journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks