Introduction

This is the story of a conversion. We would like to tell you a story about it in the hope you will understand it. This is not a story about the conversion of a person to a different way of thinking or doing the things that they do, like a religious person would think, nor it is a conversion to a set of ideas. It is more like when someone makes one of those cutesy dragon sculpture out of hubcaps, or when a woman is getting a little bit old to walk unaided, and so calves herself a stick from the branch of a tree. It starts with some strings