With our patness for phrasemaking, we sometimes mesmerize ourselves into assuming that since we have cleverly labelled something, we have somehow magically solved the problem it presents.
With our patness for phrasemaking, we sometimes mesmerize ourselves into assuming that since we have cleverly labelled something, we have somehow magically solved the problem it presents.
“Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.”
Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon