The Boy, the Wolf, the Sheep and the Lettuce by Allan Ahlberg

Author:Allan Ahlberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141928050
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

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CARPET OF TRUTH? Do they ADD UP? They do not. If anything, they cancel each other out. I am left with less truth now than when I started. I sometimes think I would be better off writing an opera. Get all three of them – Boy, Sheep, Wolf – on stage together. Let 'em sing it out, a trio, simultaneously. Loudest wins.

This business of the truth poleaxes me at times, that's the truth of it. I read somewhere (George Henry Knott, I think) that ‘The little knowledge we have is like a clearing in a forest’, a forest which represents the unknown. The more knowledge or truth we acquire, the bigger the clearing, the greater our contact (i.e. perimeter – see diagram p.44) with the unknown. In other words, the more we know we don't know, or if you like, the less we know. It's a puzzle. There again, as the Sheep was later to observe, ‘E = mc2, that's a puzzle.’

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