“The difference becomes clear when the meaning is blurred, for in the confusion you know that you want.”
“And what do I want?”
“The truth, and you won’t have it if you grasp it, cut it up, boil it down into syllogisms. You’re like a man trying to eat a steak by lecturing on cows.”
“I just want to understand—”
“But understand what?”
“What’s happened.”
“You have to see it first. You must open up your mouth before you can chew. You’re not going to see it if you first try to understand it; if you try to force the new thing into an old; you’ll only see the old thing.”
A cascade of diamonded light streamed through the wounded clouds, and a voice, too great to be heard, spoke in our hearts like the rumbling thunder. Such are words, and it is beyond me to speak.
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