Songs of Innocence, frontispiece The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 (credits)

ragments, mostly. A paragraph from a book, a sentence somebody wrote four hundred years ago that still hasn't been answered. They're pinned up here in no particular order.

Where we quote, it's an old public domain translation and the link goes to the full text. Where a living or recent writer comes up we say what we think they meant, and label it, because putting words in people's mouths is rude.

	other minds — what is it like to be someone else
	the cave — shadows, and the walls we watch them on
	cogito — three sentences from three old philosophers
	restless — Augustine, and a cloud
	measurement — what changes when somebody looks
	forgetting — Ebbinghaus, and a curve that replicated
	purpose — a governor, a torpedo, and a warning
	notes/ — loose pages, unsorted