Is this not just the old
playing-card-covering-the-lip-of-an-inverted-water-filled-drinking-glass
problem?
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"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown.
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the
unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
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