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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Touch Wood
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'Framing my work in the context of this topic can be done, but please excuse me if I come at it in a peculiar way. Superstition does relate, in some ways, but far more in my life than in my work, but obviously the two things are not mutually exclusive. I have never been superstitious in the usual sense of the way we use the word. I have never broken a mirror, but I have certainly crossed the path of a few black cats, so to speak, and it never bothered me. What I am cautious about, though, is giving power to ideas by speaking them. I have had many experiences in my life when careless words said in jest have forecast grim tidings. This may sound silly—and yes, superstitious—but I figure it can’t hurt not to tempt fate. Allow me to explain.' 

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    y separately published work icon Sūdō Journal no. 4 August 2022 25078564 2022 periodical issue 'For the fourth time, we find ourselves at the beginning of another volume of Sudo Journal. There was never plan for anything after volume three -  from here we all find ourselves in strange new territory.' (Wayne Bradshaw Editor's Introduction) 2022 pg. 16-19
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