The Badlands of Southwestern North Dakota Seem To Be Caused By a Considerable Layer of Volcanic Ash.
"What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding [Classical & Romantic] and unites them into one. Such an understanding will not reject sand-sorting or contemplation of unsorted sand for its own sake. Such an understanding will instead seek to direct attention to the endless landscape from which the sand is taken. … To understand what he [Phædrus] was trying to do it’s necessary to see that part of the landscape, inseparable from it, which must be understood, is a figure in the middle of it, sorting sand into piles. To see the landscape without seeing this figure is not to see the landscape at all. To reject that part of the Buddha that attends to the analysis of motorcycles is to miss the Buddha entirely.“
Ten miles East of Marmarth, ND. The Narrator discusses the dry lifeless processes of science and philosophical analysis.
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