A Commonplace Book

... we have to remember we cannot ponder all paths but must decode only those necessary to get out. We must be quick and anything but exhaustive.

When revisiting places we once frequented as children, it is not unusual to observe how much smaller everything seems. This experience has too often been attributed to the physical differences between a child and an adult. In fact it has more to do with epistemological dimensions than with bodily dimensions: knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.