No, it is not what I expected (whatever “it” might be). It is not even what I hoped it might be. I hoped someone, anyone might care more. I had hoped my own opinion would be all that mattered. No. Attention must be spent.  

Or… What It Takes to Hunt a Mole (or Anything in the World or in You) Still close reading Marc Hamer’s A Life in Nature. Below is a video of that reading along with some translations.  Isn’t that all reading is–translation.  We extend the metaphor of an author into ourselves.  Unfortunately, there are so many truths…

For me, the word ‘explication’  has always been associated with poetry and religious exigesis.  I has morphed for me into the word “unfolding” and more recently has come to be associated in my mind with Nick Sousanis’ idea of “unflattening”. The Tiktok video below is both a metaphorical and actual example of this unfolding. It…