I don’t believe we have even begun to come to terms with our ‘sense of wonder’. We still have a lot to learn, particularly from those parts of the sense housed in the rhinencephalon – the old ‘smell brain’. Mysteries abound there, and reveal themselves only when we have the courage and the imagination to ask the proper questions. - Lyall Watson I find the cavils of self-appointed committees for the suppression of curiosity very tedious - Lyall Watson Illustration: Bottle from Perfume Series Lura Astor
My gift is my quiet ability to weave them together, synthesize them, create a tale, tidy them up so as to be presentable.
Luca Turin:
"Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. ... one needs better metaphors."
For interdisciplinarians, metaphors as a tool create language bridges, make cultural and sensory synapses, make knowledge more accessible to others, cross-translate languages of the senses.
