Q and A with M

Date	Asker	Question	M's Response
December 4, 2012	sensiblestupidity	Why are you doing this?	I’m doing this because I have a story to tell. A long one with many characters. Some of them are real, and some are imagined. As is the case with most stories, the real meaning is not immediately clear. I would love to skip to the end and present you with nothing but the meaning, but I fear that would be much like kidnapping a person and pulling the bag from his or her head in a strange and perhaps hostile setting. Some things are best done slowly, to avoid what I think would be the psychological equivalent of the bends. Thank you for your question.
December 4, 2012	tinybetsy	I have a nagging worry that I've missed something important. Is it too late for me? Is there a way to catch up?	Think of what has happened up to this point as the beginning of a song. Like notes softly played on a piano. There is information there, to be sure, but it is only the beginning, and only the piano. Soon other instruments will join, then others will join after those. Then the beat will drop, as the kids like to say. But to miss the first few notes surely doesn’t mean you’ve missed the song. The notes will repeat, as will anything worth repeating. We all meet people well after their stories have begun, and we still befriend those people, or hate them, or fear them, or fall in love with them. This story began well before I began telling it, and I haven’t even started. Thank you for your question.