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    4 months ago

    As a beginner, you learn and memorize the basics.
    As an intermediate, you experiment, inject fresh energy into sketching and exploring outside the basic parameters.
    As a master, you have returned to basics but with a unique perspective, your added experience to the narrative.

    It’s quite beautiful.

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      4 months ago

      Exactly… I find it quite interesting how some perceive the theme of the comic as depressing while others find it beautiful.

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        The story goes that after Wittgenstein published his monumental theoretical treatise on theory - the Tractatus Philosophicus - he became a gardener, or elementary school teacher, maybe both, I can’t remember.

        But the point of the story, as I interpret it, is that the road of intellectual labor leads back to simplicity, and that is a comforting thought, also very Japanese, Zen-like.