When Stewart was in pre-school (about age 4), they used to draw pictures and then describe them so the teacher could title them for us. This is what came home one day ...

• mystery
• indeterminate origins and indeterminate nature
• in essence, not defined
• without handles (unless slippery)
• non-specific suggestiveness that opens up rather than clamming up
• the pearl discovered inside the mundane
• trying to find "sonopoetics"
• craft?
• the thing well done is rare
• the cooked becomes raw
• food for thought and expansion further construction scaled to the needs at hand
• a gebrauchmusick for the soul
• like the ladder Wittgenstein talks about -- to scale the heights of concepts and then kick away
• from here you're on your own
• mysteries

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• I try to find a still place in my sitting but I have forgotten how.
• I look for a still place but, in my sitting, I have forgotten.
• Where is the point, the point of instigation, the point of investigation? Around what centers do I draw my circumference and my conferences?
• The targets enclose each other. And the arrow? Point. (blank) Range.
• An appropriate altitude is reached when you feel the wind whistling through the caverns of your mind.

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