<i>OCCURSUS</i>: An Introduction to My Ghosts

The present occursus is a collection of amicable essays and a somewhat erumpent desire on my part both to escape and in doing so to thank those who have so generously and variously hobbled, impaled, expanded, dissected, tracked, uplifted, gouged, wounded, excited and obliquely improved upon the limitations of my scribblings. I am variously, to take the more exotic appellations, a mouse, an infected space, a heterosocialite, a crow with an arrow through the eye, a dreamer, an aporia, a scandal, a spectre, an errancy, an intersection, a promiscuously polyamorous textualist, a threat, a satirist and a critic. So many faces, such introitus, a zarzuela of the laws of love. Whatever else is to be made of these missives familiar and philological, they force a reckoning, a reflection upon the paths taken, the uncertain trajectory, the dreams and the hauntings that fall under the equivocal designation or aporia of a life.