Selections from this collection first appeared, often in somewhat different form, in a variety of publications. They were published with the following titles:
Arc Magazine: “Pictographic Sources of the Alphabet as a Medium for Poetry;” “Myth and the Open Imagination”
Descant: “Copious as Hydrogen;” “Colourless green etc…;” “Organic Stories”
Numero Cinq: “Fragments of a story;” “Letters ubiquitous;” “Questions and answers;” “Language as social consensus;” “Sacred and profane;” “Troy imagined”
Several of the essays here were included in a lecture titled Sacred & Profane delivered at the Maritime Writers’ Workshop at the University of New Brunswick.
“The growing dawn” first appeared as the Introduction to the novel, The Growing Dawn, published in 1983 by Quadrant Editions.
Many thanks for editorial suggestions to Nicola Vulpe, Chris Scott, and Allan Briesmaster. Any errors in fact (or fiction!) are mine alone.