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Crooked Roads takes its name from the famous line by William Blake in his Proverbs of Hell: Improvement makes straight roads, but crooked roads with Improvement, are the roads of Genius. When I was younger, I used to take pride in staying off the beaten path, walking the proverbial crooked roads and seeing where they led. I was confident, of course, they they would ultimately take me to the pinnacles of glorious success. Now that I've gotten older, I've come to see that if you truly want to pursue your own artistic vision, you are going to have to walk those crooked roads, those frustrating circuitous paths that may lead to great satisfaction and accomplishment--or may lead to nowhere. The awful and wonderful truth is that you just have to keep walking. Flaubert once defined talent as a long patience. This gives me hope that if you have the patience to keep walking the crooked roads, they may still take you to places that the straight paths could never reveal.