Inside the academy pursuit of knowledge follows from a critique of that which forms the body of work around a subject, area, or artefact. In the monasteries, knowledge is transmitted from a teacher to a new seeker. I think about the nature of transmission that takes place and the quality and purpose of what is transmitted across these two modes. A graduate student immerses herself in the literature – it is some combination of monographs that focus narrowly on a small section

He muzzles his way through the glass door inside the cafe, curls up and dozes off.

How did we come to imagine the world in the ways that we do? How did we begin to use the categories we use? How did these concepts and categories acquire “meaning” so that using them we can make “sense”?