Like most people, Alfie seems to act on things at face value. I used to share her apparent presumption that face-value perceptions are sufficient sensors of reality. I did not know enough to question whether they are. Now I do. Now I understand that the greatest thing one can learn is that learning is a process, that in the great ocean of understanding, we have barely wet a toe. To come to know less than one knew: that is the key that unlocks the universe.
