I spent the best part of my mortal years embracing one very broad proposition – that this world is an amazing place. The circumstances of my life were such that I could not have avoided an investment in this philosophy, even had I wished to.

Even today, it is what keeps my fire burning. Night after night, I am born into this world again, the prospect of adventure and discovery beckoning like an open window of hope and possibility.

But I was born into this world once, first of all, many years ago, when that window of hope and possibility never did slam shut on the rising of the sun.

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