[…] at that point my brain just goes totally smooth and all new concepts slide off it like so much melting cheese off oiled teflon (this is EXACTLY what it is like, I promise you) […] Webcurios 29/04/22 (via the incomperable maya.land)
This is EXACTLY what it is like! Quote in re math and physics concepts above a certain difficulty/complexity. I feel like I’ve tried to express this for myself about certain philosophical writing… I can’t find it in this post, so I must have taken it out to sound more confident?
Pretty much every book listed in The Tables as abandoned were abandoned for this reason. I cite “boredom”, but really boredom often isn’t the problem precisely; it’s that they slide right off my gone–smooth brain.