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Make up people you don’t know. Give them names and fill them with every doubt. Then begin. Debate Heller while being Rasmussen. Debate Rasmussen while being Pace, Pace while Heller. In Google Earth, when you are looking at something, turn the orientation. Don’t look at everything with north at the top, or with your intended path in front of you. Look with north down, or to one side. Slant. Meander.
It will be as if you've been somewhere far away, for a long time, and have journeyed back to the very place where you now are, and when you arrive, everything is familiar in a different way, a clearer way that was always intimated. A road you always imagined must be there is there, just as the infinitesimal details and energies are there, to the infinite relief of the physicists who knew they must be.
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The new road turns above the old orchard, turns before you crest the hill, but below the road that you’ve always known and has always been plain to you. You turn onto the new road and it carries you around the hill to the front steps of an inn you've often visited, always from the orchard side.
Now you see there is a man with a sweep of long hair lying indolently across the steps down to the driveway. It could be Byron or Custer or J.E.B. Stuart or Oscar Wilde. How would you have seen him if you’d come by your familiar path? You must come at this place from every direction. It may be strange, but it will be less so if you take no compass with you, and see what you look at.
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Doug Logan
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