How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?’ Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn’t know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?’ Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn’t know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

– Russell Hoban –

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

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