As for the final calcula-
tion, it's hard to explain:
you just know it is right.
What .. I realised then
was the importance of in-
termittency.
Not just scientific intermittency, but mental and emotional intermittency, too. How, in a world of disintegration and endless renewal .. one must find one's own rhythm exactly by recognising the incompleteness of the melody.
It was a great gift, because incompleteness is what points to that ideal of the whole. It shows the way to whatever is emergent at the limits of any system, from an ant-lion's nest in Nyasaland to the ever-expanding edges of the universe.
Giles Foden
Turbulence
op. cit.
Even music has its silence.
ReplyDelete