“Thinking is forgetting differences.” Borges
[ The crucial equivocation on ”think” was a response to the commentary in Moeller and D’Ambrosio Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi (Columbia, 2017)]
I run into you
on my way to see the ducks.
“You think they’re happy,”
you say. ”Right,” I say.
“But you’re not a duck,” you say.
“As you say, I think;
if you knew how I think, you’d
see ducks are happy.”
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Metaxyturn Diaries 
You get right to it, here. I love this not-so-little little poem. “So much depends, etc….”
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