15Final Thoughts

Even though my instinct is always to leave the last words to those wiser than me, because, frankly, I already know what I have to say so I would rather listen to others, it’s a three-layer cake I promised, and so a three-layer cake you shall receive.

Which in other words means … one more time … drumroll please … Little ol’ me.

As mentioned in the very beginning of this work, this book has been—by far—the most comprehensive, ambitious and thereby gratifying project I have ever taken on. But as I come to its final pages, and my final hours with it before I send it out into the world, I can’t help but recall a moment from the very earliest of moments in this book’s lifecycle: in the fall of 2015, before I even put together a book ...

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