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THE WRITING LIFE Emilio DeGrazia
(A presentation delivered at the Institute for Theological and Interdisciplinary Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 17, 2017. Updated, March, 2021)
My website [no longer in existence] officially named “The Writing Life” lives a lonely life somewhere out there in the dark web. In a time when (to use Yeats’ words), “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” I prefer to have my writing life both ways. Because so many millionaires don’t pay taxes, I’ve lost faith that the only certainties are taxes and death, and I’m also uncertain about the public value of my writing life. I live with a mind clogged merely with possi