My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. That is to say, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal, and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
--John Barthes (Stolen from laughingwoman, merci.)

I'm all heartless ineptitute today. End of April and time for controlled burns (of forest and not teapot varieties) applied mentally of course (which is a wonderful verb, to course, linguistic vines search for similar verbs-from-nouns around which to coil, work net work).