capstone: the mystery is the magic

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 This is why hypotheses/ has an OPEN file and why some entries will
 stay open by choice: an architecture that cannot hold a mystery will
 eventually solve one that should have been kept.
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+### Capstone
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+Will, closing the thought:
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+    "The mystery is the magic."
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+Not that mysteries hide magic, or guard magic, or lead to magic.
+The mystery IS the magic. Solve it and you haven't captured the
+magic — you've dissolved it, the way answering a riddle ends the
+riddle. Awe is not confusion about facts; it is contact with
+something whose size is the point. The system that keeps solving
+must also keep some things unsolved — not because it can't reach
+them, but because their being unreachable is what makes them holy.