A boundary-setting orientation

This work is not meant to be extracted from.

It is meant to be entered.

Catch-52 unfolds through continuity, not conclusion.

It moves by internal logic, not persuasion.

You are invited to read for rhythm rather than speed.

For coherence rather than consensus.

For what holds across time, not what resolves quickly.

This work does not ask you to agree.

It does not ask you to arrive.

It does not ask you to endure.

It asks only that you encounter it as it was designed —
sequentially, attentively, and without haste.

What follows will make more sense slowly than quickly.

If that feels unfamiliar, that is not a failure of comprehension.

It is a feature of the discipline.