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Where to Begin

There is something, this month, about beginnings. Stay with me, they insist, at varying decibles.
A sketch of a circle, from a medieval text about the origin of the cosmos. From Utriusque Cosmi, by Robert Fludd, via the Wellcome Collection.

There is something, this month, about beginnings. So often, they act like flirtations — sometimes aggressive, other times coy, always with an agenda. Stay with me, they insist, at varying decibels.

In this issue of , the beginnings are not

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