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structure” as Turner popularized it with the tactics and goals of the computer games. Aren’t there any computer games out there that deconstruct these overdone “mythopoetic tropes” and envision something more all-embracing? Finally, Jason Stacy’s paper “Containing Multitudes: Whitman, The Working Class, and the Music of Moderate Reform” analyzes Whitman’s Leaves o f Grass and its 1855 edition Introduction to explore the poet’s complex and ambiguous ideas regarding working-class reforms. Stacey includes an historical summary of both the radical and conservative debates centering around the issue in his detail ing of Whitman’s “symphonic vision. ” Readers may notice that I’ve been hinting at a more interactive approach to our intimate journal in this issue. The editorial staff has had the brilliant idea of opening up our world to yet more opinions. So many of us don’t have the time (or the AudreyT^...) to create an entire article for publication, but why not our own Letters to the Pop Culture Audience? Sends us your thoughts, your musings, your tirades on our articles (and “our” Introduction...) and in the next issue we will incorporate yet another aspect of Popular Culture - The Responses. Once again, PCR promises to tempt and torment, amuse and rile, but mostly, to inspire, its eclectic audience. Read on! Juli Barry, Ph.D. Associate Editor Popular Culture Review IV