Welcome to January – the month of beginnings and ends. Where do things start and finish? And, while we're at it, when? Everything gets a bit mixed up when I try to focus on finity (no such word, but perhaps there ought to be), let alone infinity. To be sure – or even certainly – the more I think about it, the more I lose certainty. Here's a dialogue between a child and an adult about the nothing – or is it everything? – that lies beyond the edge of the known world, as it then was. Non Plus Ultra And what is it that lies beyond beyond the Pillars of Hercules? The waters, child, that endless ocean as far as the eye can see. So beyond, what lies beyond past what my eye can see? Never ever ending ocean like time, which never ends. But if I travel long enough might an end come into sight? I do not know. I cannot tell what it is the future holds. Does the ocean hold the future as the past sets with t