Wednesday, January 09, 2013  Moving to WordPress  After six
years with Blogger, I'm having serious technical problems and
I'm no techie. Perhaps Blogger bogs down after several years of
use?  I've decided to move View from Federal Twist to WordPress.
I'll provide a new address within the next few weeks. Meanwhile,
posts will continue here, and the old blog will remain
accessible.  Now for some diversion:  Anecdote of the Jar  I
placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It
made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.  The wilderness
rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was
round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air.   It took
dominion every where. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give
of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.    - Wallace
Stevens  From Wikipedia:  'This famous, much-anthologized poem
succinctly accommodates a remarkable number of different and
plausible interpretations ... Helen Vendler ... asserts that the
poem is incomprehensib