“If you were to commit a true act of miracle, if you were to abort the formation of the concept of the hair midway through the process through enlightenment and then … assert that a seagull mapped more closely to the truth to which your heart attends … then perhaps you would achieve the effect you noted. It would not be because you had realized that the hair might as well be a seagull, but because in bowing before the infinite majesty of the truth you decided in jest to veil it in a seagull’s form. Not ‘in jest.’ That was the wrong term. I do not have the words for it. … in a spirit of delight
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