Dear Nick, Thank you for your letter. We won't be able to meet in Belmont next week, because I have an automobile reservation to Nantucket on Sunday, October 20, at 9:15 a.m. My return reservation is for November8, but possibly I will return sooner or stay longer. Impressed as I am with the eloquence of your letter, it would be presumptuous of me either to claim or to deny that I understood what you have written. "Aporetic" is the descriptor sometimes applied to Aristotle's writing. It articulates contradictions without stipulating solutions. aporetic | Origin and meaning of aporetic by Online Etymology ... https://www.etymonline.com › word › aporetic aporetic (adj.) "inclined to doubt," c. 1600, from French aporetique, from Greek aporetikos, from aporeein "to be at a loss, be without means or resources," from aporos "impassable, impracticable, very difficult; hard to deal with; at a loss," from a- "not, without" (see a- (3)) + poros "passage" (see pore (n.)) I myself have found aporia to be a convenient and comfortable refuge from ignorance. Glancing back over my life, I find that I have spent the last eighty-five years mapping the escape tunnels to aporia from innumerable facets of experience where I would otherwise be trapped. Best wishes for your trip to San Francisco and beyond. EJM