Cover for What Is the Whole Story: title in dark ink and deep blue on a cool slate ground, a faint branching tree and a large pale pilcrow at the right.

What Is the Whole Story

The whole story is usually pictured as the longest honest telling, the one with nothing left out. Derived from the foundation’s primitive that the Past is one settled totality and not one branch, the phrase turns out to weld two things together — and no telling becomes the whole by getting longer, because the difference is between a branch and the totality, not between less record and more. … readWhat Is the Whole Story

Pale amethyst cover with geode-like concentric rings and a faint P8, titled What Is a Discovery: the naming is discovery, the mark is invention.

What Is a Discovery

“Who discovered it?” is usually heard as a question about where a thing started. Derived from the foundation’s eighth primitive, the verb already carries the answer — a discoverer is, by the word’s own grammar, not the origin of what was found — and “discovered or invented?” splits cleanly: the naming is discovery, the mark is invention. … readWhat Is a Discovery