Where should we start? As always, it is best to begin in the middle of thing, in medias res.
Will the reading of an [email] do?
Sure, it offers as good a
starting point
as any.
--Latour, Reassembling the Social

Following Latour, I too begin in the middle of things.  While he
begins Reassembling the Social with the reading of a newspaper,
I begin with an email I received February 11, 2003 at 12:21.