halfway

um, wow.

i can't help but think that this says something significant about the
state of the western world, or perhaps of academia or writers -- how
incredibly small we can make our intricate worlds! would even Proust have dithered so much on every sentence he wrote? (would he have lived long enough to finish anything if he had??)

then again, maybe they are just trying to get at the same thing as polanyi
(summed up in a slate article on books people found most influential in college)

"Polanyi's gist was that we know more than we know we know, and that
without this connoisseurial, "unsayable" knowledge, science and society
can't function."