Be ready for this, people. Citations and quotes and all, but no formatting. I spent most of the night talking to Will and Heather, some of it to Sean, and got to bed only around 2 - 3am. Then I woke up at 5am to finish it off. I opened with Archibald MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and, would you believe, finished off with a quote from The Last Unicorn.
( Click for the full essay. It's got sections and all that! )