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SALMAN ANSARI: Point Price

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I loved visiting the gallery, licking every piece clean with my eager eyes, running home to pour inspiration onto canvas, until that terrible day, when I was asked to critique, and I did, pointing and pontificating to an eager audience, lumbering home stuffed full of applause, but starved of passion.

Salman currently resides in Walnut Creek, California. He’s writing and illustrating his first book — a collection of fables. He also publishes a newsletter on creativity and self-awareness called Quick Brown Fox, and mentors students in the online writing course Write of Passage. He’s inspired by whimsical tales like The Little Prince, which deliver profound wisdom in a playful way.

JOHNNY LOWE: What’s the Theme?

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“Pride goeth before the fall.”

“Excellent,” the professor said. “Ms. West is correct. That is—in essence—the theme of Melville’s novel.”

Another student snorted.

“Mr. Jones?”

“Sorry, sir. It’s just…that’s too artsy-fartsy.”

“Really. Then what do you say the theme is in Moby Dick?”

“Never lean on the railing.”

Johnny Lowe has copyedited books for a university press. He recently edited an anthology of short stories titled What Would Elvis Think? Mississippi Stories. Lowe has also lettered comic books and dabbled in ventriloquism.