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craft before craft — DIY RPGs and the meaning of a literary idea

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  cool engraver guy on a 47 Workshop letterhead  Let there be the clack of the shuttle flying         forward and back, forward and                               back, warp, wearp, varp: “cast of a net, a laying of eggs”     from *warp- “to throw”             the threads twisted for strength                        that can be a warp of the will.       “O weaver, weaver, work no more,”               Gascoyne is quoted:       “thy warp hath done me wrong.”  — from At the Loom, Passages 2, Robert Duncan With apologies to Lionel Trilling for the title. I was v busy between the end of the year at our middle school + grad school term papers + a brief stint in county jail (free Palestine!) and I'm th...