Thank you for the book recommendations and for tying this mysterious thing to something I do understand. How one moves that understanding out through the whole body--gesture, movement, expression, voice--instead of just out through the fingertips to the keyboard is the huge missing link.

This exercise is strangely exciting--or perhaps I should say "excitatory"--to my brain. I can practically feel the neurons sparking and lighting up new neural pathways.

I think I'll run up to Powell's for lunch and buy their last remaining six-dollar used copy of Advice to the Player. Whee!