Notes
1. Though I share the author's doubts about empiricism's ability to cut to the real chase (176), I still have enough respect for it to try to spell people's names properly. So, Martin, my name is Alun not Alan as it appears in the preface. Perhaps we are condemned to another aspect of our historicized existence – our invariable inability to correct proofs properly?
2. I'll say that as most of my critics have damned me in such language – though to be so criticized I do take to be an honour judging by those who usually do it but it is still inaccurate for too many reasons to go in to at this juncture – but if you want to know what they are email me and I will happily discuss the matter at length.
3. Prose refers to ‘ordinary’ or ‘everyday’ ‘non-verse’ language. It is usually written. Prose, unlike verse, has no formal metrical arrangements.