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“...As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.”
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”, 1877)
An overview of the limits of what we can think and say in any language - based on the Compossible article.
“...As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.”
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”, 1877)
An overview of the limits of what we can think and say in any language - based on the Compossible article.