13 Azar 1404
Quatrain 27 of 75
“Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.”
Reflection · Autumn 1404
In autumn this verse is lived experience rather than prediction. The summer's pursuit — whatever argument you followed eagerly through the long warm months — arrives in Mehr at its conclusion. And the conclusion: the same door. The one you started from. About it and about — the circuit of arguments, the loop of theology and philosophy and science, all of it eventually returning you to the fundamental questions unanswered.
The autumn self that comes out of the argument is the same as the spring self that went in — but it knows more about the shape of the door, the texture of the threshold, the particular quality of the light on the other side. Which is its own kind of knowing.