René became one of my favourite characters and I visited him weekly for as long as he was a resident of the waste land. The crows never appeared to bother him... from his seat of old tires he must have had a terrific view of the garden and the fast dumping, free storing, happily recycling, seriously scavenging, darkly vandalizing, utterly baffled, giddily thrilled, successfully laden (or unloaded) regulars and junk struck newbies... visitors to the depot.
"Good sense is, of all things
among men, the most equally distributed…the diversity of opinions,
consequently, does not arise from being endowed with a larger share of reason
than theirs, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different
ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of
a vigorous mind is not enough, the prime requisite is rightly to apply it."
René Descartes...discourse on method |
