Daniel R. Midgett

Born in Southampton, New York. A student of a life spent traveling up and down the East Coast and into the Caribbean islands — chaotic at times, but always looking closely at one thing long enough to see the pattern in it, and then finding that pattern everywhere else.

The Oldest Language is the result of fifty years of that kind of attention. The seed of the recognition it describes reaches further back than that. Some recognitions take a long time to ripen, and this was one of them. What you hold is the distillation: a structural blueprint of how reality becomes intelligible, stated in language plain enough to be tested, precise enough to be useful, and open enough to accommodate what we continue to learn.

There is nothing remarkable about me, other than the fact that I am a human being just like you and everyone else that lives and breathes and reads this text. But if you really think about it, for just long enough, you will understand that being human is quite a remarkable thing in and of itself.