Ghost Writ: The Desert Wells Dialogues of Gilmartin Jacobsen (a fugue)

 Imagining the life of a mind . . .

In the end, everyone gets what they want 
but not necessarily what they expect.
                         (from Coda)
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NB: Afterword—a work-in-progess to be completed by 9/9/2021:  200 years in the future the lost early works of Joshua Cryst are recovered, with serious implications for the story of the American Republic since the late 21st Century. 

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View Download		 Not just the life of my story my muse/You are the story of my life.    183k v. 1 Jul 12, 2017, 7:21 AM Joshua Cryst
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View Download		 Something is given, some things are asked, everything is answered, and nothing ignored.   1107k v. 2 Apr 20, 2017, 8:50 AM Joshua Cryst
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View Download		 We think we know that we know what we think. Or not.   6440k v. 1 Apr 20, 2017, 8:50 AM Joshua Cryst
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View Download		 We see but cannot hear and hear but do not see, as we seek the future in the past.   2249k v. 2 Apr 20, 2017, 8:50 AM Joshua Cryst
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View Download		 Thinking and doing require imagination, and nothing worth anything is easy.   2050k v. 1 Apr 20, 2017, 8:50 AM Joshua Cryst
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View Download		 We wander from present to past and back again, beginning where we end and ending where we begin.   4325k v. 2 Feb 12, 2018, 8:48 AM Joshua Cryst
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