Clearly not a book for the ordinary reader. For me the transition from Sec.1.1 to Sec.1.2 was akin to starting with a quiet walk in the park, and then suddenly

Clearly not a book for the ordinary reader. For me the transition from Sec.1.1 to Sec.1.2 was akin to starting with a quiet walk in the park, and then suddenly finding oneself clinging to a rock face as a cloud of chalk dust drifts down from the climbers up ahead....