A remarkable telescopic compression of the process of learning to map the world... and of the errors inevitably built into that process.
(I don't think we really "learn" by mistakes, save in learning to repeat them more or less automatically later on, without the original sense of play and discovery or the pleasure of all that...)
Sweet! As you so often do—two contrary motions that touch in the poet's perception, but elude each other out in the world....
ReplyDeleteA remarkable telescopic compression of the process of learning to map the world... and of the errors inevitably built into that process.
ReplyDelete(I don't think we really "learn" by mistakes, save in learning to repeat them more or less automatically later on, without the original sense of play and discovery or the pleasure of all that...)
Thanks, you two. It helps to have a granddaughter who can help her grandad "learn" from her "mistakes".
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