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Saturday, 5 January 2019


The trying to find out, the quest for understanding, the expression of core curiosity, however you want to call it, is a nice way of implicating the existence of the questioner, folding it in so that it is never more than half-exposed, keeping it snug and identified with the source of consciousness (both words ought to be in quotes, but 'who' cares about quotes?) together with its indelible distinction from whatever answer is sought. Equally, seeing the inquirer as the chief obstacle to the truth it is seeking, as standing in its own way, is a way of giving it standing, stature equal to the sought after wonder or otherness or peace or resolution. So you might as well see the inquiry as no obstacle at all, not because it is of value for it to go on, because it is going to get somewhere in spite of itself, marching right over itself, but on the contrary because the whole quest is of absolutely no significance, either negative or positive, and in this is precisely the same as everything else you can do or studiously or carelessly refrain from doing.




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