Tetrogrammaton

It was a kind of a co-on for me,

working on revising something I wrote 30 years ago,

in part because the world has changed so much,

also in part because I've changed so much.

I mean, 30 years is 30 years.

And I kind of felt at the time that it was a pretty good book,

that it was nothing more that I wanted to do with it,

that it was kind of like I accomplished my goals at that moment with it when I wrote it.

And then there was an opportunity to come out with a 10th anniversary edition,

and they said, do you want to write a new forward to it? And I said, no, I wouldn't want

to touch the beginning of it, but I'll put an afterward on it, which is what happened. And then

20 years later, when I looked at it again, when they proposed this 30th anniversary edition, I realized,

I thought this book was fabulous, but I'm not that happy with it in a certain way.

But I'm not going to rewrite the whole book.

I mean, it's like, it's a piece of a certain time.

So what I'm going to do is put a new forward on it, put a new afterward on it that's got

part of the old one, and then everything that rings a bell as I go through the entire manuscript

that feels a little off or needs something else, I will just tweak it in whatever way feels necessary.

And that's what I did and that's what you've got.

It feels like there's something more than was in the original volume.

It feels more alive.

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