Other people egg me on by saying «hey, isn't that illegal? To publish something already published, without asking first?». But i don't care much for laws or binding contracts, especially as they pertain to a word called «copyright». This word is an archaic word that needs to be removed from our vocabularies. It no longer means anything in this world we live in now. I don't respect the word copyright, but i do respect respect. And the fact that this same sequence of words & perhaps others was re-published in this new book & this publisher that did the re-publishing didn't respectfully ask or acknowledge where some of these stories or versions of these stories first appeared shows a lack of respect & common decency. This is a big-small publisher, or small-big publisher—there is a difference, just like there's a difference between a wolf in sheep's clothing & a sheep in wolf's clothing—that at first said no to publishing this book of mud. So brother came to me with this muddy book & of course Cal said sure without even needing to read this book as Cal would publish any words coming from this brother. Cal's house is brother's house, is our house. It made sense for this book of mud to belong with its two brother books, to form a sort of trilogy, all under the same roof. But when this small-big publisher, whose name i'm not even sure how to pronounce if i wanted to, heard that Cal was willing to publish this book, this small-big publisher all of a sudden decided he wanted to publish this book of mud after all. When brother told me that this other brother that was not brother to me wanted to publish the book of mud after all, brother gave me that look. He gave the look that hurt the eyes of the one doing the looking. But in the real world brother is more than a brother, he is a father. He is a father with hungry mouths to feed. So this father-brother had to do the best thing for feeding these mouths that depended on him, as this brother Cal was not a brother that could float him currency in exchange for his words, unlike this other brother that is not brother to Cal—at least not currency that could then be exchanged for food to feed hungry mouths. And publishing with this small-big press meant meant more eyes, different sets of eyes, more brothers & sisters, would be exposed to this book of mud & the words of this brother of all brothers.