http://saintalbatross.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] saintalbatross.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] cincinnatus_c 2008-04-08 12:11 am (UTC)

I've been meaning to add:

The metaphor my father uses is a spiral staircase. If you're 'developing', or whatever, you keep coming back to the same things, but you're at a higher spot than where you were. I actually like the idea of 'deepening' or 'augmenting' (one of my favorite words) better - but it amounts to about the same thing. The spiral staircase emphasizes transcendence, while a 'deepening' emphasizes the total scope of one's being.

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