"loss and guilt" was written during what i believe to be an inspired time in my life. the bulk of this site was scanned, written and turned into html in just three days. since then it's won numerous awards, and changed my life in ways which at the time i could not fathom. instead of adding to or changing this site, i've decided to leave it just the way it was when i finished it.

i created "loss and guilt" out of the need to deal with my feelings concerning my divorce, loneliness, and growing older in a society which worships youth. for the most part these feelings have been dealt with and resolved for me. now it is time for me to move on to other things, but i wish to leave this site intact as a photograph of the inner workings of my life during the time which i created it.

the original concept for the opening sequence of the site was that it would just be one very wide, tall page, viewed through a small window, thus the arrows. although this worked great when run locally, the bandwidth required to load such a page over the net isn't available to the average surfer. so i broke it up into a number of smaller pages, each containing one of the images plus its corresponding navigational arrows.

i am truly honored that this site has received as much attention as it has in the last few years. i hope you enjoy viewing it as much as i have enjoyed creating it. there's a lot here, and i encourage you to delve into the depths of this site.

thank you,

robert

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