We Must Be Making Progress

Dear Transcendental  Romantics
(& colleagues across the curriculum)
 
    Coursing w/o Borders Series

    Final Transcendenistry
 
EGO : Latin for the first person   
              singular (I) 
           
         E UNUM PLURIBUS

  self self self self self self self
  self self self self self self self
  self self self self self self self
             self self self

         Go ahead: deny.

         Cover it up
 
Send  it to the cellar with Madeline.
Or up to the attic with Roderick
Put it in the cupboard with your
cupcakes.  

No man is an island, says John Donne.
 
“The opposite of a profound truth is
another profound truth,” says Niels  Bohr.
 
NO! Man IS an island—I say.
 
Every thing has 2 handles, says Emerson.
be careful which you pick.
 
The word “DOUBT” is diminutive
of the word "double. " 

Double,  double, toil and trouble
says Shakespeare.
 
On the one hand and then again
on the other hand.
 
Are you so single-minded you can’t
just as easily see the other side?
 
"I see we are approaching paradox"
(Bohr again): "We must be making
              progress."