Open Self

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Morning was to be the time of beginning. But the words started to say themselves, and they would not remain pil lowed. So I write in a little room in this city where Whitman and Melville wrote of the colors and the shadows of this America, beginning a book halfway between midnight and dawn.