1891. Think of the generations of humans who have nested in this bower of brick and dreams, the homes made and unmade, the lives lived as earthquakes and epidemics and World Wars fissured humanity along fault lines no one imagined.

In 1891, women were not counted as citizens and were barred from higher education in most of the world. It was inconceivable that one could govern a country. It was inconceivable that galaxies other than our own existed.

It was inconceivable that the entire canon of aliveness is composed of four letters arranged in symphonic combinations along a double helix.

In 1891, DNA, penicillin, quantum mechanics, and Nina Simone were unimagined wonders of the future.