Part 1. When you were a child you were given the assignment to memorize a poem by Emily Dickinson: "I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too?" You stood in front of the class giving your barely-memorized lines and it felt so strange, you sensed a problem. It couldn't be detected when you were reading silently to yourself; it became clear when you stood in front of others to recite. "Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!" Speaking the words to the class did two things at once to you. The words spoke directly to you and implicated you in their self-deluded call to silence, you were their conversant about not conversing. And more, speaking them aloud, they became a performing that performs a desire to not perform. "How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog –"…
