John William Waterhouse, “I am half-sick of shadows, said the lady of Shalott”
Today’s puzzle represents the equivocal position of the crossword-constructor vis-à-vis society: forced to draw upon it for words and phrases, and yet confined within a self-sufficient, cryptic world of numbered blocks and dark spaces from which there can be no escape. It’s tragic, in a way, but oh so beautiful.
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A crossword of mine will appear Thursday, September 2nd, in the Wall Street Journal.