We've always been different. Somtimes it seemed like we saw only ourselves, and sometimes we did. We sort of went through society's motions (school, work, responsible citizenship), but we always came back to each other and strained to find the non-routine. We tried to make things different; we tried to have fun without yielding to society's cliched offerings. Many times we failed, but we never quit trying, and we occasionally succeeded.

Keasman Literature was one of our successes. By that reckoning and for that reason The Keasman Literary Guide is created.

The purpose of this guide is no more complicated than the title suggests: a guide to Keasman Literature, but it may serve different purposed to different people (entertainment, criticism, adivce, fame).

Perhaps there is no greater illustration of our dissimilarity than something as ambitious and "inessential" as this guide would seem to be. If you are consumed by such a frame of mind you have no hope for originality.

Chris Jones
Editor