https://www.tuirgin.com/tags/essay/ Recent content in Essay on On the Backs of Turtles Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us blog@tuirgin.com (Christopher D. Walborn) blog@tuirgin.com (Christopher D. Walborn) &copy; 2018 Christopher D. Walborn [Some Rights Reserved](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:25:00 +0000 https://www.tuirgin.com/post/201207141425-playful_seriousness/ Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:25:00 +0000 blog@tuirgin.com (Christopher D. Walborn) https://www.tuirgin.com/post/201207141425-playful_seriousness/ <p>I remember my father reading to me. He made the stories into a spectacle of elaborate, silly voices. That spectacle became ingrained in me, and goes with me into the daylight spaces of my own adult life. This childlike play acting, the art of verbal exaggeration and caricature, has perhaps been my only salvation from an unbearably melancholy disposition. My father taught me many things, but the unintentional lessons have been the most cherished. </p>