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Nº 13

The Nearest Thing

The part that comes first, published second

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Contents · 12 movements

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  1. 1.1The claim, and why it is not modestAvailable now, at no cost, to no one in particular2
  2. 1.2Four things called non-dualTable 1.1 — and which one this series means4
  3. Plate · the empty frameNothing in it. Look anyway.6
  4. 1.3The four doorsThe gap · the looking · the surrender · the given7
  5. 1.4What the evidence can and cannot sayIncluding the part the field is slow to print10
  6. Plate · the seamYou have never once seen the edge of your own seeing.13
  7. 1.5The instructionOne page. Six steps. Four minutes.14
  8. 1.6And then the hinge into Part TwoThe one thing recognition has never been able to do18
  9. VThe Five D InquiryDiscovery · Dream · Design · Destiny · Delight21
  10. The ruled pageYour own hand, on what you already knew24
  11. Works citedTwelve sources, and what each is doing here26
  12. ColophonAurora, the register of arrival29

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