Thank you so much.

Like all of Joe’s work, this piece has a multi-layered – one almost wants to say musical – structure to its argument, making excerpts a particularly problematic way of rendering its sense.

It is exhilarating to be characterized this way. My first major graduate paper, which I am working on publishing, was on Huxley and musical counterpoint; my first Valve post was on opera and narrative form; my dissertation is built around theses on Finnegans Wake, a novel that constantly assumes musical shapes. Musical form is central to the way I read and write, and I really blush to be read so acutely and generously.