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If you have a loaf of bread and I have a euro, I can use my euro to buy your loaf, and at the end of the exchange I will have the loaf and you will have the euro. It’s a perfect balance, isn’t it? First, I had a euro and you had a loaf of bread, and after the exchange, I have the bread and you have the euro. It’s a fair transaction, but purely material.
Now, imagine that you have a Verlaine sonnet or that you know the Pythagorean theorem, while I have nothing. If you teach them to me, by the end of this exchange, I will have learnt both the sonnet and the theorem, but you will still possess them. In this case, there is not only a balance, but a growth.
In the first case, we had an exchange of goods; in the second, we shared knowledge. And while goods are consumed, culture expands infinitely.
Michel Serres, French philosopher [1930-2019]
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 🙏🏻
This was a bit more difficult than the last one, but you’ve done a pretty good job of it. Be careful when you glide over less important words not to eliminate them altogether. Just reduce the stress to a minimum.
Remember that “question tags” generally don’t require the rising intonation as they are usually just looking for confirmation:
“It’s a perfect balance, isn’t it?”
🙂
I read ” I’ll…” I tried it..
Got it. 🙏🏻
Really beautiful!
It does make an important point, I feel. 🙂
Truly important, dear Tony đź‘Ś