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I am indebted to Tom Walsh for demonstrating time and again over many years the immense grace and power of a life and a pen that draws from the head and the heart as opposed to just the former.

Similar gratitude flows to Tim Sciarillo who’s been tenaciously needling me into ever-greater levels of consciousness and critical awareness since the day many years back when fate (and the Dean of Housing) first brought us together.

I feel only mystery and wonder (if there any more sublime expression of gratitude?) before the fact that Itamar Even-Zohar, a true visionary and a polyglot of the type that this world may never see again, decided for some strange reason two decades ago to begin sharing his cosmic levels of knowledge and humor with me.

I would be a very different thinker and writer without my dialogues with Gustavo Remedi who, during our 15 years spent working together, constantly and joyfully challenged me to consider new things in completely new ways.

But I fear I might not have been able to listen to either of these extraordinary people had my Galician “brother” Alberto Sacido, not previously showed me the importance of coming to the table, in good times and bad, to feed the body and renew the mind through shared words.