Acount Ability

       Coursing Without Borders Series

“Those things for which the most money
is demanded are never the things which
the student most wants.  Tuition, for instance,
is an important item in the term bill, while
for the far more valuable education which
he gets by associating with the most cultivated
of his contemporaries no charge is made.”

                                        Thoreau

WE know what counts and it isn’t always what
COUNTS —in fact: it may never be what COUNTS.

What we can count isn’t what COUNTS.
On the other hand it Does Count—we would
be fools to say it does not. But still, and all,
it doesn’t COUNT, or as we sometimes say:
it don't COUNT count.
 
The two (what counts and what COUNTS)
are actually “hostile” values &  incommensurate.
Don’t let the inadequacy of the language trip you
up or get in the way. It’s inadequate, sure—we
all know that. But it’s also ADEQUATE, yes?

Or we’d be dumb struck. 
 
It’s certainly awkward and somewhat
embarrassing and even demoralizing
when we let what counts and what
COUNTS collide—a mash-up, a mix-up.
the same word (counts) counting two
different ways in two different “realms”
 
Are you with me?  Am I making “sense”?
Can you say what the 2 different “realms”
of count counting unaccountably  are?

(It counts for you to come at 8:oo in the
morning, but does it COUNT? And which
kind of accountability counts MOST for you? )

Language: can't live with it. Can't live  without it.
Got to love it or I'm screwed. Screwed anyway--
that's for sure. No doubt.

xxxooo