When a student is ready a teacher
appears
so much jactitation(the twitching of a
limb or muscle)
(he preferred jactittation – the heaving of breasts)
when When a student is ready a
teacher appears is said when he
embraced itthoroughly imagined it he wondered
where his teacher was he had always
been a student-of-sorts but those he would justify as teachershis last teachers
were long ago Mr Wappler a well-known
Chicago Blackstone Group painter he asked him
if he would teach him how to paint but after
three weeks in midstroke he took the paintbrush out of his hand Boy he said as a-matter-of-fact Youre no
painter still their ensuing relationshipan
odd go-between between a nine year old boy and a 73 year old man taught him worldly
things that resonated today it was a
breathtaking relationship he didnt have a
teacher again until high school Mr Benthal his
mechanical arts drafting teacher Benthal(as
he preferred) told him that he was astonished by his unique ideas regarding architecturethat
he was thoroughly excited captivated and enthralled My God Im more your student
than your teacher Benthal told him he wasnt
familiar with anyone in the field who drew sliding exterior walls walls lowered
like drawbridges room partitions curtains hung from overhead tracks to alter or
arranged new rooms in an otherwise static structure Benthal called his architecture Organic
he confided in Benthal that he
wishedcould only wish he could manipulate some elementelements something like DNA
to incite pliable perhaps living
domiciles homes cells aggregating in the shadeand like of a human body
it had been a long time
apparently he wasnt ready
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days remaining or fewer Russian by
quote from Nnedi Okorafor The Book of Phoenix
Fela Kuti Shuffering and Shmiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y--5IlljO78
