Unless you've developed a time machine, it would seem to unfortunate that you'd prefer one over the other. [ he doesn't disagree. dictionaries in multiple languages, encyclopedias, textbooks, theorems- each of them serving their purpose and all of them biased. an educator may only teach one way of solving an equation while there are several approaches. and it's there down to the grit he can imagine under his fingernails again. it's in the way that his artwork never quite satisfies his.. hunger.

exquisite. exact. but neither one replaces watching someone squirm on the floor with blood gushing past their teeth, spine misaligned, screaming. descriptions and depictions never suffice, unless they're the only choice. he says one thing, thinks another. it isn't dishonest because it wasn't a question. ] And yet I can agree that there are particular experiences no man (simple or otherwise) could recreate with words if he tried. Take war, for example. [ a personal declaration: ] So many accounts, loosely accurate and none of them truly capture or magnify the brutality or the compression of the human mind under pressing circumstances. Paintings don't give you hypothermia if you touch them and journals don't carry the stench of the soldiers they threw into the fires.