"New writers often find beginnings difficult...because they take the word 'beginning' too literally... Your story... must begin in medias res, in the middle of things." - Bernays and Painter, I.1

And that's the story of our lives--our beginnings sit inside the unfinished, half-told stories of others.
In medias res.
and that's the way it traces back

some rare books came in today.
it was a privilege to be able to read them, and a pleasure.
i hate not being able to touch books with my hands though, it just makes handling more unwieldy if i can't feel and weigh what i'm reading.

i generally don't like to answer when people ask:
favorite ___?

But my favorite poet, time and again, is T.S. Eliot
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