On Relooking

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Lessons on looking again

THE DUCK RABBIT has been my constant companion since I was

your age. If I were a character on Game of Thrones, this would be the sigil of my house; I would have duck rabbits embroidered on all my bath towels and fine Westeros linen. The Duck Rabbit, you see, is forever and always two things at once. He is in a state of marvelous, simple uncertainty. The duck rabbit never resolves for more than a split instant into one thing. Because once a thing is only one thing, it loses the ability to transform. Sherry Kramer, faculty member from her 2014 commencement speech


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