Field Notes
Essays written alongside the book. Each one stands on its own; none of them require the other.
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Field note no. 1
The Iron in Your Blood Was Forged in a Star
Put two fingers on your neck. What you can feel is being carried by metal that was made inside a star which died before there was an Earth for it to fall on. Not as a metaphor — as the arithmetic of the periodic table, applied to biology.
The next one goes to the list before it goes here.
A letter every few weeks, from inside the book — passages in progress, the research that did not fit, and word of where the manuscript stands.