Paul’s Reviews > The Speed of Dark > Status Update

“There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias. So I think there may be positive darkness, and I think dark can have a speed.”

“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance.. Maybe my questions matter.”

“Learning is not hard. Not learning is hard. I wonder why they are not learning it for long enough to feel like work.”

“She told us the police think we have knives or guns in our pockets and that they have killed people who were just trying to get out their IDs.. I think that is wrong, but I read where the court decided it was all right if the police were really scared. Yet if anybody else is really scared of the police it's not all right for the scared person to kill a policeman. This does not make sense. There is no symmetry.”

“Autistic persons do not understand these signals; the book says so. I have read the book, so I know what it is I do not understand.”