[my Father] Loved Me Tenderly And Shyly

Death Tripped Down The Corridor, Changing Step, Struck Out Here And There, Danced Pirouettes; Often I Felt His Breath On My Face When He Was Miles Away; Often I Fell Asleep And Dreamed While He Stood Leaning Over My Bed.

Man Has An Irrepressible Tendency To Read Meaning Into The Buzzing Confusion Of Sights And Sounds Impinging On His Senses; And Where No Agreed Meaning Can Be Found, He Will Provide It Out Of His Own Imagination.

The Real Achievement In Discoveries... Is Seeing An Analogy Where No One Saw One Before... The Essence Of Discovery Is That Unlikely Marriage Of Cabbages And Kings — Of Previously Unrelated Frames Of Reference Or Universes Of Discourse — Whose Union Will Solve The Previously Insoluble Problem.

In The Pun, Two Strings Of Thought Are Tangled Into One Acoustic Knot.

As Modern Physics Started With The Newtonian Revolution, So Modern Philosophy Starts With What One Might Call The Cartesian Catastrophe. The Catastrophe Consisted In The Splitting Up Of The World Into The Realms Of Matter And Mind, And The Identification Of 'mind' With Conscious Thinking. The Result Of This Identification Was The Shallow Rationalism Of L' Esprit Cartesien, And An Impoverishment Of Psychology Which It Took Three Centuries To Remedy Even In Part.