Thursday 3 September 2009

A thermometre is not heat

A rain guage is not a torrential downpour, a doctor is not sick patients, a reader of emotions is not "emotional", a shaman is not the madness that he diagnoses.
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1 comment:

rayo said...

'a shaman is not the madness that he diagnoses' i love those words, love the poetic sound it has to it and i love its meaning!

7 September 2009 at 08:55

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