The Puzzle Master

Two tracks opened in my mind. One track held the world I knew to be real—the solid ground below me, the air in my lungs, the sun that rose in the morning. And on the other track, moving in the opposite direction, was a new reality, one I had never considered. On this track inexplicable things appeared, impossible things, ones that terrified me. One

“To collect is to organize the world in your own image, and Aurora Sedge clearly had a very strong sense of who she was. You can tell a lot about a person by what they collect.

expressed the difference between zero and one. The problem of zero, or nonexistence, obsessed Leibniz. How could zero—pure potential—transform to one, a whole and complete material object? The transition between nothing and something is the central question of…well, everything. All our spiritual and intellectual systems—religion and science, but al

That is the nature of the puzzle: to offer pain and pleasure by turns.

Anyone who didn’t allow dogs in her house had something wrong with her.