In a Conchshell

The attempt to summarize the significance of Jan Cox led me to recall his stress on the new, on attending to the edge of consciousness, as methods, to strengthen one's talent to remain alert. This peculiar alertness is blunted by words.

His was an ancient quest, a quest which when successful, raised for the modern westerner, a perhaps separate issue: how to remain, how to return, to a perspective bordered by quiet.

The quest starts and ends, with the physical. Probably.