It has lately come to my attention, much to my enduring dismay, that the greater portion of writing upon this platform is, in truth, an unmitigated heap of rubbish. One might wander through it for hours and find a sentence worth the candle scarcely.
And so, compelled by equal parts irritation and misplaced charity, I have resolved to cast a modest light into this prevailing gloom, and to present, if you will permit the boldness, something approaching decent prose.
Read it slowly, if you please, and with a degree of patience not often exercised in these parts. I shall endeavour to keep matters from growing intolerably long, though I cannot promise to spare every delicate mind from fatigue. One must begin somewhere, after all.
Well then, do try to enjoy it.