Preface to "Self Portrait in 200x"

One thing I know I am. I am the contents of this pamphlet. I have gone from someone with a title and a path to established stature to a struggler at the very foot of convention. Many dreams were abandoned in my life, I think more than most lives. But there are a couple of things I know I am. I am a stinging brain and a body of lines and circles. I present myself here.