This entry is a prelude to my next entry which wanted to incorporate an idea I had in a university English Composition class far too long ago. I didn't save much of my college work, as it wasn't worth keeping, but this class - and in particular, the instructor, really inspired me. I think I was taking a course in rhetoric contemporaneously, so my thoughts were clearly informed by that.Through the magic of Optical Character recognition - and Knuth's "Computer Modern Roman" font - resurrecting my old composition from paper was a trivial effort. I've included it here as an historical artifact. It was written so, so long ago, with a prose style that one would expect of an undergraduate. I've resisted the temptation to revise it so you - gentle reader - may simply wish to skip it and wait for the next post which really does have something to say and will excerpt a couple of sentences from the essay below the fold.
I'm also trying to forget that my copy of this essay has begun to yellow around the edges.
