IF YOU ARE AMONG THESE PAGES today, you are rich with words. Rich with teachers. You are one of the ardent-hearted, a philosopher, a student.
Though you may not always see it, especially with your nose in a book or a magazine, you’re in a massive city that includes ocean parks, apartment buildings, factories, sand hills, forests, bridges, distant bands of stars… You don’t know how far the limits of the city extend, but it doesn’t matter, because you will never reach them, not in this lifetime, not as yourself.
You don’t really get it — why this city, why you in it — but after a couple decades among its people, trees, schools, and buildings, you come to the conclusion that your job is to map it. It is…
