Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are. - Ralph Ellison

We shall demonstrate once again that in this great, inventive land man’s idlest dreams are but the blueprints and mockups of emerging realities, technologies and poems. Here in the fashion of our pioneer forefathers, who confronted the mysteries of wilderness, mountain and prairie with crude tools and a self-generating imagination, we are committed to facing with courage the enormous task of imposing an ever more humane order upon this bewilderingly diversified and constantly changing society. Committed we are to maintaining its creative momentum.

Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.