Reading in Goethe and the Greeks.
There is in the educated/intellectual world an unconscious assumption that “Truth” is there out-standing and independent…to be known and in relation to.
Whereas closer to reality seems to be that there are only relations to — perhaps more quests than a finding of — ”Truth” (even if, and when what is found in the search is seldom not, at least, departmentalized, and consisting of detached, ahuman, specific facts and reasonable conclusions, or generalities of ideas).
Or, as the cover of who I believed to have been a friend page, Smith’s book, cover, and contents had it:
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 