Author's Preface to _a sound

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a sound:
The Complete Works of Sugarpie Rabbit, Autumn 1994 through 1996

Author's Preface¹

a sound was created after-the-fact, as a correction to existing divisions of my work by epoch² .

Because the a sound epoch is so much briefer than the others, on that basis it would seem justifiable to consider it an interlude between epochs. In considering this contrast I did, however, uncover a fundamental spiritual event within its span, without which³ much of what I experienced across the next epoch — In A Rib — if happening at all, would have been incomprehensible or, at best, misunderstood. For that reason alone, even if atypical, a sound deserves its status as epoch at SPR.

This very brief epoch takes its name from a piece written in commemoration of its single, epoch-defining event, a sound .

Sugarpie Rabbit
25 September 2007

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¹ Prefaces to both epochs, a sound and In A Rib , will each be far better understood if read contiguously, as one. Click here to go directly to the other preface now.

² In the context of Sugarpie Rabbit(SPR)'s writings, "epoch" refers to an author-defined division of life so meaningful-by-theme of life-experience as to have uniquely shaped and/or directed the writing of its titles. These epochs are generally, but not always, either begun or ended (or both) by a hallmark spiritual event in the author's life. (For examples and more information in specific, see individual prefaces by epoch.)

³ Beyond the negative effect its absence would have had on writings immediately following this epoch, it is doubtful that SPR's life could have unfolded as it did, much less spawned [writing-] epochs similar to those which now exist. For additional information on the significance of the event represented by the poem a sound , see the preface to the following epoch, In A Rib .

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