21 November 2006
What reality is
"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more." --William Blake
consensus reality
is like a fragile raft
of lashed-together coconuts
floating on a roiling sea
of unlashed coconuts
and innovation is like wrestling
a new unlashed coconut
out of that roiling sea
and lashing it firm
to every other coconut in the raft
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