I've found it difficult to speak freely, from the heart, on my
weblog; maybe my wiki will be more freeing. Indeed, it has already
given me space to be messy, tentative, and downright wrong in my ideas
and fact-gathering. At the very least, I've not worried about literary
quality in this space. There is a blend of "high" and "low", really
refined pieces juxtaposed with a pastiche of URLs, cryptic phrases,
uncontextualized observations.

What drives this dichotomy? As Laura pointed out, perhaps it's because I've made a promise on this blog
to be rational, fair, even-handed. I've made no such promise on this
wiki. It's not that I don't embrace those qualities. Rather, I let
myself be freer to take on many other modes of communication -- and
that's what she observed to be missing on my blog. Hmmm....

Oh no, Laura, I managed to misrepresent what you said! How
embarrassing. Yet so appropriate. In my feeble attempt to write a bit
more freely, inspired by what I thought I had heard from you, I
stumbled. Will I now just stop writing now? No -- I must push on, write
first, and ask forgiveness later. Hmmmm....