To W. Gray Long

[herm melville]

W, Gray Long:

    Yes, I would like to converse. I am certainly curious how you have gone about your writing. Who are you? When did you join ishmail? How can one write to you? John Gretchko

melvil...@gmail.com

[W Long]

Hi John, I am unsure if I failed at properly posting a response to this message. So I will give it another go. After much wrestling with format and cornerstones, I have gone about the writing with very deliberate and conscientious intention, admixed with a touch a playful wonderment and magical enigma to make the whole thing fun. Having a formal background in History, Philosophy, and English Lit, I am an independent scholar (made so by curious forces) who has dedicated too much of my time and life in trying to break through (what appears to me) to be an unreasonable barrier to getting this thing out there in the wild. I joined Ishmail some years back, six or seven years ago, let's say. I have emailed your provided address.