ABSTRACT

This chapter contains what I generally skip when browsing, the boring explanation of why the author feels that the common language has failed him and he must devise a new vocabulary to express his unique views. Still, I judge the risk of confusing you to be greater than the risk of boring you, and so I hope for your indulgence. If you are at all interested in what I have to say and still skip the next few pages, you may have to return to them when you are in a much less receptive mood. Be warned. If you have read this far, you will have noticed that I refer to beginning and ending rather differently than other writers do; it is time to make those differences explicit.