Astray

In a sense, the thought precedes the thinker, waiting for him, W. says. In a sense …

W. dreams of the thought that he might habve, which awaits him at the end of his Denkweg, his thought-path.

But he knows that the path to thought is never linear. That you never come to thought through some kind of methodical process.

Thought comes from without, W. says. Thought reaches you from outside.

It is oinly when you wander from the path, that thought comes. Only when a vista suddenly opens, when your thought-path opens into a glade, that thought becomes possible.