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Stay as you are.
With man his knowledge and the process of obtaining
knowledge are of equal magnitude. Our ability to apprehend
galaxies and subatomic structures, as well, is a movement of
faculties that include and transcend them. The second-grader
who wrote the words above lives in a world much vaster than
any which a scientist today has instruments to measure, or
concepts to describe. As W. B. Yeats wrote of this reversal,
“The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is
no longer a dream.”
Associated with this transformation of the real world into
science fiction is the reversal now proceeding apace, by which
the Western world is going Eastern, even as the East goes
Western. Joyce encoded this reciprocal reverse in his cryptic