Prolegomenon
Threshold to the Work
This section establishes the conditions under which the work unfolds.
It names the order, scope, and internal logic of Catch-52 before any disciplinary claims are introduced.
What follows is not argument, instruction, or persuasion.
It is preparation—an alignment of language, orientation, and expectation—so the work may be encountered as it was designed.
Catch-52 does not unfold randomly. It advances with deliberate structure, paced movement, and internal coherence. The reader is not asked to agree, arrive, or perform—only to enter with attention.
Orientation, Not Initiation
This is not an onboarding sequence.
No conclusions are offered here, and no outcomes are promised.
The Prolegomenon functions as a threshold: clarifying how the work moves, what kind of attention it requires, and what it does not attempt to do. It signals that this is a constructed intellectual environment, not a collection of ideas.
The reader remains sovereign.
Order Before Assertion
Catch-52 proceeds by architecture rather than urgency. Concepts appear in sequence, not because they persuade, but because they belong.
This section names that order without revealing its internal mechanisms. It establishes that the work operates through layered progression rather than extraction or consumption. Meaning accrues through placement, pacing, and return.
Nothing here needs to be memorized.
Nothing needs to be mastered.