Monday, November 06, 2006

Another beachcomber

Probably, bubbling somewhere just below the surface in the turbid soup of my creative subconsciousness, this famous, beautiful line was making its contribution to the little poem in my last post:

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

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