This shimmering view through the thick medieval glass windowpane arrests me. The call to Halt, look, see again, seems to whisper into the air that hovers just above me, or all about, or even deeper within. This wavy scene—a thing of beauty itself—in which I recognize yet also see anew the centuries-old traditional European half-timbered …

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Are you ever tempted to read the last chapter of a book before you have even begun reading the first chapter? Or, if you’re somewhere in the middle of reading it, have you been tempted to skip ahead to the end to see if you really want to read the whole thing? Or maybe you …

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