assemble perception
…and my daughter said "Eleanor Rigby, that's the - oh!" What? She explained that the words sung by the singers had synced perfectly with the timing of the Gold - Bond - Flour blinking up in the sky, and it was just neat, that's all, nevermind, I can't explain.
Oh, but I knew what she meant. She's ten. The world is a big strange wonderful place that's completely understandable one moment, then throws some small lovely random synchronicity at you the next, and you start to realize that your understanding of things comes from the ability to assemble perception, recombine it, revel in your ability to adjudicate all this stuff. But you can't say that. Not yet; you nod, and say "Cool."
Because it is.
- James Lileks, The Bleat
Oh, but I knew what she meant. She's ten. The world is a big strange wonderful place that's completely understandable one moment, then throws some small lovely random synchronicity at you the next, and you start to realize that your understanding of things comes from the ability to assemble perception, recombine it, revel in your ability to adjudicate all this stuff. But you can't say that. Not yet; you nod, and say "Cool."
Because it is.
- James Lileks, The Bleat