νῦν δὲ λογικός εἰμι: ὑμνεῖν με δεῖ τὸν θεόν. (Epictetus)
Λογικοσ--of the logos, and of legein. The mind not as some abstract capablility in negative potential, but that which brings us into being. We speak, as birds sing, to have our being by giving an order to things, and separating things that are ordered together.
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Review of a new biography of (The Young) Tennyson in the Times. There's an anecdote about the time he processed into the Sheldonian to receieve an honorary degree, unkempt as usual, and one of the robed dons in the cheap seats called out, "Mum wake you early, dearie?"