16 November 2008

The Wisdom of Mme. Faux-Sophiste

As "Pheidippotamus" might have indicated, it is a semi-goal of mine to build myself a little world around "Velocipedes and Dirigibles." A couple of Wednesdays ago I made another addition to the literature, but I neglected to post it. It is this:

The Wisdom of Mme. Faux-Sophiste
Know you not what knowing not will do
for knowing what to see
and knowing how and knowing who
knows how and what to be
besides a knowing one who knows
no seeing but a thought
of one who sees and then burrows
to know what has been wrought
not seeing but not knowing much
but one and all to know:
not foxes, but hedgehogs and such,
and an armadillo?

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