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What We Can Say

1

“The traumatized rats practiced excessive self-grooming.”

Thinking is practice.

The idea that we can improve

is a form of self-grooming.

Adjusting to the rapidly changing orientations

of figures on a screen

can feel like having a succession of ideas,

each of which must be incorporated

into our current attitude.

To incorporate change without disorientation

is to win.

2

“Ideas link things in novel ways.”

We might say that music

attempts to make time

into space—visualizable, repeatable.

(We may have said this previously.)

Or we may say music

attempts to make space into time

so that between the current

stances of the musicians

there exists something like flow.

But there is really no direction

in comparison,

only the desire

that two entities

become one,

as if reduction in number

were the purpose

of all thought.

3

Though it’s also true

that one gets bored.