Lucas has a long and intriguing meditation on editing, craft, polish, and the unpolished. Some things to note. This is closer to what an essay is than what many of you write as an essay, in the manner in which it wonders deliberately and openly about an idea and follows it. Evidence is used, and the implications of the idea considered, rather than reporting on what is already secure.

And he’s on a roll. Concussion leads to thinking about minds and bodies. I think you’re mad if you think minds are at one with bodies. In much the same way you’re mad if you think bodies and minds aren’t deeply mutually intertwingled and codependent.

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