An infant,
plunging its hands into a jar of honey, is instantly involved in contemplating
the formal properties of solids and liquids and the essential relations between
the subjective experiencing self and the experienced world. The viscous is a
state half-way between solid and liquid. It is like a cross section in a
process of change. It is unstable...soft, yielding...the boundary between myself and it. Long columns falling off my fingers suggest
my own substance flowing into the pool of stickiness. Plunging into the water
gives a different impression. I remain solid, but to touch stickiness is to
risk diluting myself into viscosity. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Great post. I've never considered honey quite this way before. Oh snap, face it: I've never considered honey at all. But I will! :)
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