Late this January, encouraged by the sheer familiarity of a vertical motion — snow’s impersonal descent over the neighborhood, creaking freshly underfoot; its vicious rise, so steep, to the mnemonic occasion — questions around the ugliness of everything began to take on renewed urgency across the mind’s more circular regions. To help make much-needed headway on This Truly Fascinating, Very Subtle and Entirely Sincere Question, facilitator Leon Teener . . .