If you have opened this manuscript, know that it does not behave like ordinary text. It resists interpretation, distorts meaning, and offers nothing without a cost. I have arranged the fragments as carefully as I could, though I no longer trust my sense of what is safe.
If, while reading, you feel an unease that is not your own, a presence behind the words, or a pressure behind your eyes, stop. Set the book aside. Not every page wishes to be read. Not every reader returns unchanged.