Relentless Inquiry

… but sometimes you forget that you already know them.

We fix our own hearts like a lone man building a dam, or repairing a foundation. At some point, engineering principles are left behind, do not scale, and we are left helplessly to say, “this looks like it should go here”, or “let's see if this holds”. Yet the most elaborate and complicated structures can begin as a handful of mud daubed onto an empty space.

SR Chalup, A Walk by the Sea, 10/04/1995