Who ever really knew?
Who ever really knew conversation?
:- Doug.

Why care if the work accords with current thought academic or otherwise? It is a work of imagination. It stands on its own feet. It need only accord with itself, and that only when it suits its purposes!
:- Doug.
Converse asks you to become unmindful. Unmindful of past and future, gain and loss. Yes and self. Perhaps also to be unmindful of your Thou. Leaving only only.
:- Doug.
Mystery is a place to call home, a place that gives me rest, nurtures me, and sends me out again into the surprises. No richness without surprises.
:- Doug.