learning to fly (ESR vs FWN)

and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for
things–metaphors which correspond in no way to the
original entities.

With creative pleasure it throws metaphors into confusion
and displaces the boundary stones of abstractions, so
that, for example, it designates the stream as "the moving
path which carries man where he would otherwise walk."

These features suggest that the customs are not
accidental, but are products of some kind of implicit
agenda or generative pattern in the open-source culture
that is utterly fundamental to the way it operates.