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About the Author
The author is a master of the written word, a journeyman social scientist, a neophyte guitarist, and an occasional philosopher. He blogs under a pseudonym for no particular reason other than that he enjoys the idea of it, and he is known to change his pseudonym now and again. He is a lifelong learner, political observer, and partisan of the word. His other work includes numerous newspaper articles, a few academic projects, much unpublished poetry and short fiction, and an unsuccessful attempt at a first novel.
Current projects, other than this blog, include academic research in political philosophy and international law; an attempt at a second unsuccessful first novel; and the architecture of a lasting peace between the ascendant nation of the image and the ancient nation of the word (he is a member of the latter but also empathizes with the former, having worked as a photographer, dabbled with paint now and again, and witnessed the advent of MTV).
When he is too poor to pursue his own projects and still keep a roof over his head, he hires himself out to the highest bidder as an editor, writer, and perception manager par excellance.
About the Title and URL
ARG is an acronym for Alternate Reality Game. ARG!!!!!! is what Lucy says when she gets kissed by Snoopy. ARG!!! seems a good compromise and is well-suited to the long-term vision for this blog. A rabbit hole is a point of entry into an ARG, which is in turn a reference to Lewis Carroll. 108 is the sum of the six eerie numbers which recur throughout the ABC television show Lost. It is also a sacred number in Hindu and Buddhist thought, and an important number in many other religions, numerologies, and systems of thought. It is appropriate, then, that this particular set of words should reside in Rabbit Hole 108, c/o wordpress, which, when translated into the language of the Internet is expressed as www.rabbithole108.wordpress.com.
Use of Material from This Site
Lost, The Lost Experience, and all related images, names, etc. that can be legally protected are the property of the network and parent company which produces them, so be very careful.
Original material published here is published for the entertainment of everyone who is able to read it. If you like something enough to snag it, please abide by the customs of blogging courtesy and the standards of fair academic use. This means you should keep direct quotes to 250 or fewer words unless you email for permission to do a longer quote. It also means that anything you take from this blog should be accompanied by a hyperlink to this blog. Trackbacks make everyone more happy than they would be without them. On the extremely unlikely chance that you cite work from this blog in non-internet work, please include a citation which lists the URL and credits the original author.
From time to time, you may see an essay here that would lend itself well to submission as a freshman or sophomore writing assignment in some liberal arts discipline or other. If you’re having as much fun in college as I did, you may be tempted to use such an essay to meet a deadline. Resist that temptation! If you do it, you will probably be busted by Turn It In or some such program, which means you’ll surely fail the assignment, probably fail the course, and possibly end up on probation. It goes without saying that if you use them for writing assignments above the sophomore level, the consequences are likely to be even worse.
If you are lucky enough to still be working under a professor who admirably doesn’t believe in scanning papers, you should keep another fact in mind. You are dealing with the work of an experienced writer who has developed a distinctive voice – one who has spent two decades learning to mediate the subtleties of tone and tempo into print. So unless you talk exactly like the author and regularly use the same archaic rules of punctuation that he prefers, you shouldn’t take the chance.
The author does not profit financially from this blog in any way, does not solicit advertisements, and does not sell space on the blog.
He does consider the fun and relaxation that he gets from blogging to be a form of profit, and he is thankful that no one has yet discovered a way to measure and tax this particular form of profit.
