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Academic lectures and scholarly articles do not ordinarily open with an autobiographical reflection. But then, there’s not much that feels normal or ordinary lately. Though it’s not all that customary, I hope you’ll forgive my decision to begin with a brief preface, a personal account of how this Bernath Lecture came to be. Or, to paraphrase Daniel Defoe, an explanatory prologue for this “journal [article] of the plague year.”
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