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Opening the Word Hoard

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UNCERTAINTY, IGNORANCE, LISTENING

Opening the word hoard is edited by Gillie Bolton. Items should be sent to her address at the end of her introduction.

 

The function of the writer is to act in such a way that nobody can be ignorant of the world, and that nobody may say that he is innocent of what it’s all about.

JP Sartre (p14)¹

Cut doors and windows for a room

It is the holes which make them useful.

Therefore profit comes from what is there;

Usefulness from what is not there.

Lao Tsu (p11)²

Life offers few certainties; three are birth, death and uncertainty. No one knows when or how exactly birth or death will take place (unless it is controlled); what another person feels, thinks or remembers; why we are born; where our essential self goes when we die; or what death and being dead are like. Yet we have responsibility for our . . . [Full text of this article]