Saturday, October 18, 2025

Siblings #2

Koan:

The girl over there, is she the elder or the younger sister? If the student is a woman: That guy over there, is he the younger or older brother?
Gradually I've been learning that there really is no “over there.” Photographers say that the subject of a photograph is the photographer. Perhaps the subject of a koan is the reader.

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