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In an essay from Upstream titled "Swoon," Mary Oliver writes an essay that is mostly about closely an observing a spider over some weeks in her rented home. Towards the end of the essay (125), she writes;
This is the moment in an essay when the news culminates and, subtly or bluntly, the moral appears. It is a music to be played with the lightest fingers. All the questions that the spider's curious life made me ask, I know I can find answered in some book of knowledge, of which there are many. But the palace of knowledge is different from the palace of discovery, in which I am, truly, a Copernicus. The world is not what I thought, but different, and more! I have seen it with my own eyes!
There's value in discovering on your own. The discovering requires attention and patience.
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