Simply because I'm writing notes when the time and the circumstances
permit, this column takes on a form in which the main column becomes the
skeleton of the component parts, with that skeleton taking shape after
the parts are in place. Perhaps it should even be called
backward writing
in which only after I piece all the pieces together do I discover what
it was that I wanted to write. It may also be that because the topic of
this particular column is its very existence, the logical content of the
column is a discussion of how it took shape. Normally I create links while
writing that I fill out later. In this particular case each of the parts
starts to take shape on its own and then seeks a link, perhaps even demands
one, to which it can become attached.