Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Experience of Tangents

Tangents (no, not dark-skinned gentlemen) are essential to didacticism. Without meandering thought, delving intellectual stimulation, general brainstorming and imaginative exploration, how can we learn? Without experience, we retain our innocence and in that sense we also deprive ourselves of the wealth of worldly knowledge. If not for (often topic- or subject-focused) expression through apparently nonlinear thinking, we would never learn a thing.

We must be inspired by experience, and even going off on a tangent is a moment of blisfull experience. Every way in which a person may express thoughts is an invaluable tool of both literature and the general human experience. Poetry is a way of exploring the inner schemes of mind, man, nature and the existential state. I would argue that tangents are a form of stream-of-consciousness profoundly manifested in oral tradition. All forms of words are important, indispensable and infinitely intragle to didactic experience.

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