But then, as Allan Little, a BBC journalist, says in a short but moving essay in the book, "Why did we become so enfolded...by a war that was not ours".
Reynolds' story, and Thompson's tribute to it, weaponises the three defining American technologies of our time: the semi-automatic gun (Castile was shot at seven times in a matter of seconds); the smartphone; and social media's viral capacity: the "electronic envelope" that McLuhan anticipated in 1968 and which we're now all so enfolded within.
There was a funeral going on at the cathedral in Chartres when we arrived, the soaring gray columns enfolded in black at their base.
The Window Trail, around the same length, began with a descent rather than a climb, and gave us the feeling of being enfolded by the mountains as we hiked into a green canyon, hopping rocks to cross a stream at the end.
It is as if the environment we evolved in during the Pleistone were now irremediably enfolded in our molecular make-up.
Today we must rewrite that line to reflect the complexity that enfolded this life the same way complexity enfolds all human life.
Calder, at least after the first blossoming of the circus, is, by choice, so enfolded within the larger story of modernist art that we can't help judging him as a character within its drama.
In Neoplatonic terms, one must think the unfolded universe we experience and all that is real in it as at once enfolded in the Creator on whom it depends.
"By looking at the history of the concept of magic, we can see how cultural assumptions have complex and potentially insidious ways of becoming enfolded in scientific ideas that anthropologists, and others, use," Jones says.
It enfolded them more closely within it.
Singleton, an enfolded Psych Corps agent, suspects that his assignment might be his boss's new variation on enfolding: "If this is some sort of treatment, or if we're supposed to be thinking this is treatment, he'd want us to be aware that we're aware of our own awareness of the situation".
