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\section{Prologue to Longing}
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\lettrine{I}{n} this book, we will mostly consider human longing.
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But first let's consider how Longing may be woven into the very fabric
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of the Cosmos itself.
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Metaphorically speaking, after the Big Bang,
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the Cosmos could have been ``content'' to remain an amorphous cloud of gas.
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But it didn't.
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You're here, reading this text, because it didn't.
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This is quite strange.
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In the chapter that follows, we consider Longing from a cosmic perspective.
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For me, perhaps the biggest challenge writing it was trying to wrap my mind around
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the time frames involved.
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In our culture we're trained to time frames of corporate quarters and
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two-year election cycles.
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But the time frames of the Cosmos and Life within it are millions and billions of years.
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Then we'll narrow our focus to Longing in mythology,
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some lives gripped by Longing, then Longing in each of us personally.
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We conclude the book by bringing it full circle with a story
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about Longing greater than the Cosmos itself\ldots
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