I just happened across this excerpt from Montaigne and remembered your blog. Maybe it will help you get started. When you're ready of course...
"I have no doubt that I often speak of things which are better treated by masters of the craft, and with more truth. This is simply a trial of my natural faculties, and not of my acquired ones. If anyone catches me in ignorance, he will score no triumph over me, since I can hardly be answerable to another for my reasonings, when I am not answerable for them to myself, and am never satisfied with them... These are my fancies, in which I make no attempt to convey information about things, only about myself. I may have some objective knowledge one day, or may perhaps have had it in the past when I happened to light on passages that explained things. But I have forgotten it all; for though I am a man of some reading; I am one who retains nothing."
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ReplyDeleteI just happened across this excerpt from Montaigne and remembered your blog. Maybe it will help you get started. When you're ready of course...
ReplyDelete"I have no doubt that I often speak of things which are better treated by masters of the craft, and with more truth. This is simply a trial of my natural faculties, and not of my acquired ones. If anyone catches me in ignorance, he will score no triumph over me, since I can hardly be answerable to another for my reasonings, when I am not answerable for them to myself, and am never satisfied with them... These are my fancies, in which I make no attempt to convey information about things, only about myself. I may have some objective knowledge one day, or may perhaps have had it in the past when I happened to light on passages that explained things. But I have forgotten it all; for though I am a man of some reading; I am one who retains nothing."
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