Response to Matt's Metaphor

Matt,

I think your idea for a metaphor is pretty cool, actually. The best thing about using the literary anthology is that you have such an enormous number of options. You could be spot on with your website's design, because your writing should (must?) always at least be reminiscent of something another person has published in the past. As Eliot wrote, the writer (or website editor) "is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living" ( "Tradition and Individual Talent").

-Ben