Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

By all means break the rules.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.