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¹Although, this of course raises the question of “what is an essay.”  To which there is no good answer, and to which there are many good answers.^{1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e}

^1aA good essay is like a lonely cat: it rubs up against everything, until it finds something warm.

^1b Or a good essay is like Thomas Edison, playing with filaments until something lights him up.

^1c Or a good essay is like an unremembered injury, which seems to throb only until its cause is remembered.

^1d Or a good essay is like your mom.^1d†

^1d† Or a good essay is really like your mom: warm and loving an comforting, but resolutely insistent that you own your shortcomings.

^1e Or a good essay is like a writer with no paper and no shoes: too many footnotes.