20 YEARS LATER — by Steve Nadis
Maybe it’s nothing to brag about. Maybe I should just keep my mouth quiet. But I can’t help feeling pleased about publishing something that I first wrote 20 years ago. I did, of course, revise it and amend it and so forth in that time, but the final printed version is not dramatically different from the original version. And I have to admit, it was gratifying to see it in print after many tries and many close calls. Others, who are not particularly fond of this particular effort, think I had so much trouble publishing it because it wasn’t so hot in the first place. Maybe I should have let this one die a quiet death, they say. And maybe they’re right. But such an act would have required far more restraint, maturity, and wisdom than I have yet attained. So there it is, my little essay having its run in the published literature–enjoying its 20 minutes (or 20 seconds) of fame, 20 years later.
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