“Yours is a history of laying stones one atop another. Your achievements seem to you always so much more varied and nuanced than this, but watch how simple is the task of removing one stone from atop another to bring the entire structure level with the ground. You must learn not to build so high, but to live and work and love in other ways. I will be your sponsor and this new undertaking. But first, you must unlearn much of what you know.”
