the world a letter

Ok, I'm going to post a draft and then, in a day or two, delete it. It is likely to change dramatically before it is un-drafty anyway, this is maybe the first section of sections? Not that I expect ^you^ to read it, but I'll read it differently here, I'll read it ^as if^ you are reading it, and maybe see something I hadn't before.

(p.s. If I owe you an email/letter, I will get to it soon! The crush of things-to-do along with my spastic memory means it goes slowly (and there's even two which are months overdue, I'm sorry), but I'm moving on it.)
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