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A labyrinth has only one path. So you cannot get lost in it unlike in a maze that gives you choices and dead ends. Yet walking a labyrinth feels like being lost. I first met the labyrinth in a child’s magazine decades ago, in the story of Theseus. A monster at the centre, a hero with a sword, a girl with a ball of thread. It was a simple story of courage rewarded. It took me years to notice what the story quietly assumes: that the labyrinth is a problem to be solved, an obst...
