The point is to capture something before it gets away. Verbal snapshots perform the same function. They aren't meant to be pretty crafted texts. They might exhibit moments of grace, but accidentally, not as the result of painstaking effort. The point is to capture an idea.
Ideas are slippery.
They can get away while we're diddling with craft. The texts collected here are attempts to seize a moment. They may be pithy, sometimes witty, sometimes infuriatingly incomplete, but if they are provocative we'll consider them successful at what they are intended to do. 21 January 1996 We would like to add to the collection. Please submit or nominate texts you think would be worth saving and sharing.