margin note
A question is a small lantern carried into a dark room. The room is not the problem; the carrying is.
senggack a think tank that refuses to sit still
A question is a small lantern carried into a dark room. The room is not the problem; the carrying is.
What if the library were organized by the color of its spines, and we had to learn a new taxonomy of hue?
Is it scholarship if nobody watches? Is it play if it leaves a mark?
(n.) thought; also: the weather inside a head.
We study the habits of thinking the way ornithologists study birds: patiently, with notebooks, and without capturing the bird.
a thought is a curve, not a line.
Every good idea arrives in the middle of another idea it is trying to replace. But what is the idea wearing when it arrives — a uniform, a costume, or the clothes it borrowed from the one before? idea /aɪˈdiː.ə/ n. — a small weather system that can change the forecast of a room.
If thinking is a craft, where is the workshop? It is anywhere you are willing to be wrong out loud, with other people present, and a pencil within reach. workshop /ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/ n. — a room where mistakes are allowed to age into method.
We keep a shelf of unanswered questions the way some libraries keep rare books: behind glass, but with the glass propped open. Whose fingerprints do you want on the questions you're still carrying? And whose footprints do you want to see in the snow around them?
senggack /sæŋ.ɡɐk/ n. — (1) thought, in Korean. (2) the act of holding a thought the way you hold a small animal: firmly, kindly, and with a plan. We are an organization dedicated to the second definition, with footnotes toward the first. Will you join us in the margins?
— the senggack think-folio, in progress
a compass rose, constructed from four flowing curves meeting at a center point.