#thejunket

#bitburger #beerfordinner #thejunket

"The notion of knowing by heart may well be a linguistic throwback to the period before the intellectual faculties migrated to the brain, but its idiomatic safeguarding in everyday speech suggests that when we do earnestly memorize a poem or piece of music, we prefer to associate it not with the rigour of the head but with a version of memory that is more intimate, more valuable, and perhaps more vulnerable. Our language can still imagine storing vital types of knowledge in the heart."