Tag Archives: knowledge

Major Joke: That kid makes up questions for himself, and even those he can’t solve

Major truth: He is truly awe­some. Or at least, so I believe. When Lock­hart said, In fact,  if  I  had  to  design  a mech­a­nism  for  the  express pur­pose  of  destroy­ing  a  child’s  nat­ural curios­ity and  love of  pattern-making, I couldn’t pos­si­bly do as good a  job as  is  cur­rently being done. I didn’t quite agree with

If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear…

“If a tree falls in a for­est and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”  I believe, if you’re a friend of mine, you’ll pretty instantly say yes. If you’re not, you might, or might not. But I don’t care about the ques­tion. I strongly hold the answer to be