I'm back to the idea of "writing in public" and so of posting parts of the book as I write them, if only as a tool to get myself to actually write them. The chapter I'm working on now is in many ways the hardest: it's the one I started with, but I've never been happy with it, and so a lot of my anxiety about the project is lodged in it. Now I think I've finally figured out how it should work, but I'm still struggling to get myself to work on it. Here is the Intro which includes an overview: let me know what you think. The woman stands with her head bent down and turned slightly to her right. Her thick locks of hair continue this downward movement as they extend down and out over her chest and shoulders. One lock on her left side stands out as it extends straight down, crossing over the prominent horizontal bars of her ribs, and leading to her breasts. Here the shape of this lock of hair is repeated, reversed, magnified, and multi...