The subject of this week’s newsletter is transitional objects. But I immediately admit that such polysyllabic clatter is a ruse, an attempt to lend respectability to our real subject, which is the mythological significance of teddy bears. Teddy bears are not our only subject today, it’s true, but, still, they and their stuffed-animal relatives are the starting point of an exploration that will expand to a cosmic circumference. I am well aware that this sounds perfectly silly.