STUMBLING, RUNNING,
charging into the next instant, slicing the Gordion's knot, Impatient Youth eyes
the carrot of imagination, reality far underfoot...Pieranski's knot, by which
entangled domains of thinking and problem solving are so intricately bound that the
mechanics of problem solving are hidden by the intricacy of the problem, thereby disguising the manipulations required to solve the dilemma......to transverse a walnut's shell is not to taste the flesh within....the kernel or the nut lies deep beneath pierian springs.....the answer may be ciphered in stone, but then it is buried deep within the flesh of mortality......
From the Lobby of the Cooper Arms by Robert F. Trucios
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"A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts,
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky,
Th' eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last;
But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthen'd way,
Th' increasing prospects tire our wand'ring eyes,
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!" ALEXANDER POPE
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