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Transitions, shifts from one to the next, similarities, differences, complications; relationships; influences; the rippling, increasing in magnitude effects of a single action; comparisons, contrasts; the scale, the range from one extreme to the other (and the ability to go from one to the other in a blink). So dense with all of these and yet so light.

It keeps expanding (effortlessly and endlessly) — not only on the pages but also in your mind. And it does so in a captivating/meaningful/sensible (not just random) way. It’s like it runs out ahead of you and you catch up to it; but when you do, it’s like some part of you already knew it. This book is wonderful beyond words.