“Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! The scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round the little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent..." ~ George Eliot

November 2, 2011

Transitions Series

So for the next few weeks I may have fewer or at least shorter posts as I am "guest blogging" on my colleague's blog, "constructing the academy" (see link in list of blogs to the right). I encourage you to visit his blog not only to read my posts (which will appear on fridays) but also just because his blog is brilliant :-).
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