Author: Tim
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David Hart: “Conceptual grammar” allows knowledge
Something can be incandescently obvious but still utterly unintelligible to us if we lack the conceptual grammar required to interpret it; and this, far from being a culpable deficiency, is usually only a matter of historical or personal circumstance. One age can see things that other ages cannot simply because it has the imaginative resources…
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David Hart: “Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience…”
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience; it is the ability to see again what most of us have forgotten how to see, but now fortified by the ability to translate some of that vision into words, however inadequate. There is a point, that is to say, where reason and…
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Mistakes Become Doodles, #1
I have this irksome inability to just let messed-up sketchbook pages go. I have to niggle and niggle at them till I can’t see anything else to do. This is mentally unsound, and counter to all good advice from a thousand sketching gurus, who’ll counsel you to just be willing to mess up a sketch…
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What’s There
The mist collects to droplets on the leaves, slight inches from my eye. I stare. I do not see the force and law that forms the silver globes. I do not see what’s there, for spinning wild is how the atoms mean the world. I stare. Simple, still, and silent balls, the water drops just make…
