Excerpt from a conversation with Diana…

I just wanted to share this…

Diana: When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
what do you think when you read that?
[cry]
Sent at 10:13 AM on Friday
me: the wizard of oz
Diana: ahh its a poem by Walt Whitman
I do not know how do dissect something like this
My teacher: Read Walt Whitman’s poem below. What implications may it have, not just for this course, but for your journey toward a master’s degree
Sent at 10:16 AM on Friday
Diana: any thoughts?
Sent at 10:17 AM on Friday
me: when someone is capable of giving the answers, and explaining things to you, the magic is stripped, and you are left feeling empty, where the wonderment has been eradicated…
Diana: Wow! that is amazing… I get it now!
me: but, you are capable of taking this new found knowledge, and seeing it for yourself, and setting out to use it, and be able to look at things differently
you are then able to look at these things once more, with reflection, and better understanding, and then you realize that there still is more that you do not know, and that the journey will continue…
i dunno…
Diana: you are writing my response for me lol
me: that’s just my take…
that’s why i came up with the wizard of oz…
remember, Dorothy and the gang set out to find the wiz, found him, and then did his bidding, to later find that he was just a man…
the disappointment of this set in, but then, through further discovery, they found that the old man was still as important, if not more now, for they knew a bit more about him
i guess, that my interpretation is ok…
the thing is, no answer would be correct – remember the human element in everything…
well, anyway, i’m gonna get back to work…
love you…
Sent at 10:23 AM on Friday