In the Center of Redefinition
B. W. Beath
If you were there, would the place itself lend you some of its energy? Would it teach you to pick up your pace? Would it impart to you a quickness, a driving rhythm? Would it infect you with its vitality, its eagerness, its impulsiveness? Would it teach you the secret of its endless regeneration?
Or would you be overwhelmed by it? If you were living there, would you find that the world was too much with you? Would you become involved in the squabbles that preoccupy the culture? Would you grow angry? Might you become political, a political person, even a public person? Would your work suffer? Would you neglect it?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertram W. Beath, “BW” to those who know him best, was for a time a restaurant reviewer for Boston Biweekly. He is now a peripatetic flâneur, wandering here, there, and everywhere in search of beauty and pleasure. Beath is the alter ego of Matthew Barber, a boyhood friend of Peter Leroy, whose memoirs, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, are a voluminous work of fiction by Eric Kraft.
ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION
In the Marketplace of Ideas will eventually be incorporated in a longer work. However, this standalone edition is limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies, of which three are designated proof copies and fewer than ninety-seven are for sale.
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