Lectori Salutem,
A wise man once said that ‘it is better to have your heads in the clouds, and know where you are … than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise’ [dixit Henry David Thoreau]. So, here I am, Lectori, and this blog is just a cloudscape of some of the things that tease my curiosity. You see, Lectori, another wise man once said that ‘wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot’ [dixit Samuel Horsley]. Indeed, ‘curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind’ claimed another Samuel (Johnson). So there you have it, Lectori, that recurrent pattern that gave birth to that blog: curiosity, head in the clouds, rational, wonder, mind. Now dive in and wonder, Lectori, for ‘a cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed … it feels an impulsion … this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons’ (dixit Richard Bach).
Joss Gillet