Any attempt to learn something, to increase your knowledge about a certain subject, is nothing more and nothing less than an attempt to become intimate with it.
Students have two open roads ahead of them.
One which implies a lot of wooing, patience and a certain degree of self appeasement.
The other asks for a direct, almost blunt, approach.
While the first is more like the student dancing around the subject, the second is akin to a hands on combat.
The results are, obviously, different.
Not exactly different. Only fundamentally.
The difference is very much like the difference between courtship and rape.
The end result might be a child. But…
Same thing with art and science.
It is true that in order to have sex, both partners need to be, at least somewhat, naked.
But there is all the difference in the world between having sex and making love!
The end result is only apparently the same!
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