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Welcome to our project!

Update Spring 2025:

We’re reconsidering our oeuvre.
Starting over from zero.
Try, try, trying again.

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Everything on this page below this paragraph we did like a million years ago. We can’t even remember what it was like to be those people that we guess we must’ve been back then. So long ago! We were still afraid of dinosaurs.

See below for novelty gifts, Pure Love ads/scams, links to Bartleby’s other sites, and an index to the poetry and assorted what-not Bartleby Willard—as isolated and mournful as a blue whale quietly circling the sevenseas—lobbed onto this site during the six years he was supposed to be staying on task.

I. The Corporeal Product Line (!Novelty Gifts!)
Step right up! Step right up! Hear ye! Hear ye! Check it out! Simple consumer goods a person in our trendy consumer society might anyway purchase, but here offered with some artistic and/or intellectual detailing for fancier prices. A novelty item! A gift item! A practical physical product, but that you spend some extra money on because it comes packaged with art, thought, panache, something to think about.

Our Zazzle store currently info-houses greeting cards, clothes, and more:

And for the consumer who has everything but wants to be reminded that s/he needs nothing:
Pure Love T-Shirts!

And from our friends at Wandering Albatross Press:

An Advertisement for an “Objectively Cute” Babywrap

II. Pure Love for Sale: The con, busk, contemplation.
Is it an advertisement for Pure Love?
But of course it can’t be.
So what is Pure Love for Sale????
You could also skip over our long-winded advert / critique of advertising and
just give into the hype already!: Hand Over The Money!! (Kind of like a tip jar, but less forthright and more shaken forsaken.)

III. How much Bartleby Willard can the world wide web sustain?
We’re not sure, but we’re pushing our luck with two further sites:
A Pure Love Shop,
And Languages & Literature — a site for English, French, German, and Spanish literary and language studies.

IV. This Blog is a Sketchbook

We’ve been lobbing essays, stories, poems, and freewrites into this infospace for many years. The Index of Essays, Poems, & Stories has some of them.

If you’re at least one ten thousandth as obsessed with Something Deeperism as BW & AW, you’ll be delighted to discover our new Something Deeperism Institute.

Oh, and hey! We’re in print! In the Curlew Quarterly (Issue #4 – Summer 2018)

Conclusion:
We’re trying to become real men of letters! So we’re working on writing, editing, sharing, getting paid; but we know that the most important thing is to stay grounded in that the having of which makes all OK and the lack of which leaves nothing OK. Dear Good Light, please help us!

Desperate Links:

• Buy the Books
• Pure Love Shop
• Languages & Literature
• Pure Love & Something Deeperism Cards & Etc!
• WAP Cat Totes & Etc! (ie: Novelty Gift Items)
• FAQs / Contact

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Copyright:
Everything on the site is authored by Bartleby Willard, who never was and probably never will be; edited by the equally implausible Ambrose “Amble” or “Andy” Whistletown, and copyrighted by Andrew Mackenzie Watson, who–at least to those of us mired in the realm of appearances–seems to be.

This is a production of American Turkey Printshop – “Ben Franklin says we’re a noble bird!”

This is a production of Modgepanc Bookmakers – “If it’s not in our mind-plan, it shouldn’t be on your shelf!”

This is a production of any number of other made-up enterprises.

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