Emily Who?

"In Amherst when someone leans out of a car window and asks the way to Emily's grave, one does not ask, 'Emily who?'" -- Robert Francis

The French philosopher Etienne Souriau observed: "Pour inventer il faut penser à côté." To invent, you must think aside -- that is, slightly askew. "My business is circumference," wrote Emily Dickinson, and her readers understand the serendipity of ideas and the rewards of looking "aside" to see those ideas' unlikely, or at least

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