On the Wing
“Franz Kafka, The Castle WHENEVER I RECALL this journey that I’m recounting for you, when I take the trip again in my mind, it seems to be a journey of a thousand mistakes. As Lao-Tzu probably would have said if he’d thought of it, the journey of a thousand mistakes begins with a single misstep, and each of the thousand subsequent missteps can begin a journey of a thousand more.
“I think I made a misstep,” I confessed to Spirit.
“You’ve been riding, not walking, so that is literally impossible,” she pointed out pedantically, not at all in the chummy, inquisitive, and speculative style of Mr. MacPherson.
“I mean that I must have made a wrong turn,” I said.
“Another wrong turn, you mean,” she said smugly.
“Yes,” I admitted irritably, “another wrong turn.”
“Volumes could be written on the wrong turn as a metaphor for the human condition,” she said. “Maybe they have been. You really ought to check. Perhaps when you get to the Faustroll Institute you could propose that as your thesis topic,... if the Faustroll Institute requires a thesis.MoreLess
“I think I made a misstep,” I confessed to Spirit.
“You’ve been riding, not walking, so that is literally impossible,” she pointed out pedantically, not at all in the chummy, inquisitive, and speculative style of Mr. MacPherson.
“I mean that I must have made a wrong turn,” I said.
“Another wrong turn, you mean,” she said smugly.
“Yes,” I admitted irritably, “another wrong turn.”
“Volumes could be written on the wrong turn as a metaphor for the human condition,” she said. “Maybe they have been. You really ought to check. Perhaps when you get to the Faustroll Institute you could propose that as your thesis topic,... if the Faustroll Institute requires a thesis.MoreLess
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