Great Regulars: This, it seems to me, has much in common

with that fatuous exercise known as explicating poems. A poem is all of what it says in the precise way that it says it. To explicate a poem is simply to devise a parallel, inevitably inferior statement. That is because the constituent elements of a poem affect the reader simultaneously, while the explication must treat them linearly, one at a time.

The same is true of life and reason. Reason is linear. Life is three-dimensional.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Rationalism amounts to a misuse of reason

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