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What do humanities and sciences have in common?
They tell us that making sense out of our experiences is an intricate task -- you might say "a difficult task", but I think the point is more fundamentally about complexity than about difficulty.
They also tell us not to despair, because they allow us to imagine the possibility of making sense of our experiences.
The epigraph to Neil Gaiman's Coraline is
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.(G. K. Chesterton)
But there is a cautionary note in these fairy tales: even if the world is ruled, or our lives are ruled, by some order, the world is very large, and larger than you expected.
Atom from atom yawns as far
As moon from earth, or star from star.
(R. W. Emerson, "Fragments on Nature and Life")
There's a lot of space everywhere. I just re-read Gardner's wonderful essay "Surprise". I still say you can only do that essay justice by reading it all by yourself at midnight on a train ride across the country. (Come on, what are you waiting for? Get the book, book your ticket.) There's a lot of space everywhere.
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