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NOTA BENE » issue four
Someone once said, “You can’t have a salad without lettuce.” I don’t know who, or in what context, or how this even applies to what I want to say here, but it sounds nice when you start off with a quasi-inspirational quote. I am not going to talk about salad.
Rather, I’d like to explain why our issues are playing musical chairs. The thing is, our inaugural manifestation appeared as “Winter 2009,” which is lovely, but when we decided to go quarterly that was going to be a problem, since there would be another “Winter 2009” issue. So that pesky 9 changed into an 8 one day without warning—graphics and everything. But now we get so many fantastic submissions that, as far as I can tell, we’re a monthly gig. So “Winter” became “January,” and I promise not to change it again. Hey, I don’t control the forces of the universe. This was supposed to be some little Rutgers thing, but it’s outgrown its Pampers and stormed off like Godzilla across the literary metropolis.
I had someone do some calculations for me. He was wearing an actual lab coat and holding a real wooden clipboard while he did this. Issue 3 filled up in a month (granted, it’s overbrimming). Issue 4 filled up in half a month. So by extrapolation, Issue 10 will fill up in 5.6 hours, and it will be difficult to get in a bathroom break. I cannot imagine how Issue 30 is going to work.
So: thank you very much, everyone who has contributed so far. Thank you very much, everyone who has yet to contribute. Thank you very much, everyone who reads this publication.
There is one last thing I’d like to mention, which is that we have our first annual PDF print issue coming out in December. It’s PDF so it can be free, and it looks like a 17th-century book. That should be enough incentive to get you to check it out. I invite you now to cease reading this and start reading all the wonderful pieces we have to offer this issue. They are the lettuce of this salad.
Kevin Dickinson
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