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I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.
Anne Sexton — The Division of Parts
You ask me to explain. You say you want to understand, and ask me to explain, and I wonder at your naïveté. Explain?
I can explain gravity. I can explain it in a way you will understand. I can explain that gravitation is not a force, but the result of the curvature of spacetime. I can discuss the history and evolution of gravitational theory, how the theories of Vitruvius differed from those of Bramhagupta, or how al-Khazini was the first to mark the distinction between force and mass and weight. I can explain the flaws in Newton’s theory. I can do all that and I can do it clearly, so you’ll understand. But why? When I drop an egg it will still shatter on the floor.
You ask me to explain, you say you want to understand. Though I don’t expect you to understand it, this is my explanation: the egg can never be undropped.
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