Mr. Kukla is being entirely unfair to both Mr. Locke and to me in 
lumping me with Mr. Locke -- for whom, by coincidence, I was about to 
press "send" on a modest proposal of my own.

The adding of my word count to Mr. Locke's has no more meaning than 
would the averaging of our phone numbers. That's a potshot that I did 
not earn, Mr. Kukla.

Nor have I earned either the tone or the content of the rest of what you 
say about my work unless you have read my 7000-word essay at 
TJscience.org -- and even then there's more to say. I originally 
prepared that essay according to the standards of The American Scholar, 
which rejected it. Then I tried The New Atlantis, which liked it but 
rewrote it in a way that harmed it, so I withdrew it. By now it was over 
a year old, and in another sense nearly a decade old. Then Jurretta 
Hecksher challenged me in this forum -- just as you are doing now, but 
without your tone.  At that point I decided to stop fiddling with 
journal editors and to post it online myself. It seems to be doing its 
job there.

If you read the essay, Mr. Kukla, I hope you'll criticize it.

Please stand by for my own proposal to Mr. Locke.

Steve Corneliussen

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