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the moment before everything, dressed up as nothing and hiding all the courage
means The point at which something starts or comes into existence; the first part or earliest stage.
from From Old English 'beginnan,' to begin, built from the intensifying prefix 'be-' and a root meaning roughly 'to open' or 'to start.' It has cousins across the Germanic languages — German 'beginnen,' Dutch 'beginnen' — though the deeper origin of the verb is murky, one of those words whose earliest source has worn away with use. The '-ing' is simply the old verbal ending that turns the act of starting into a noun for the start itself.
- biggest bang
- The universe's beginning released all energy in one instant
- hardest part
- Studies show starting beats finishing for procrastinators
- word origin
- From Old English 'beginnan,' to attempt or undertake
- blank page
- Writers fear the first sentence most of all
- chemistry
- Activation energy makes every reaction reluctant to begin
big bang — universe's origin ~13.8 billion years ago according to modern cosmology
writing systems emergence — cuneiform in mesopotamia ~3200 bce, earliest recorded writing
industrial revolution — britain 1760s-1840s, mechanized production transformed society