So a lot of people – even decades out of school – still have variations on the Test I Didn’t Study For dream. I wonder whether that’s a… dream ecological niche that was filled by something else before compulsory formal education?
“There I am, trying to stampede the herd, and I realise I forgot to dig the pit!”
“I’m collecting roots, and I’ve left my basket at home. So I’m looking for some reeds to weave one real quick, and I can’t find any, and my arms are just full of roots that I keep dropping…”
Show up at the harvest and realize you forgot to plant anything…
trying to prove i can knap flint to my prospective mate but forgot to bring the flint…. just sitting there banging chunks of granite together like an idiot… whole tribe laughs at me…….
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
“but how could thor and the other asgardians have been completely unaware of their people’s violent history as a conquering and enslaving empire?!?” have you ever met an english person
pervasive doubt 