This image ultimately stemmed from the reflections of the sky on the water of the small pond in front of this father and son. The feeling of a vast elongation of the world through the mirroring of water and sky laid out before the two of them made me think of one of the defining books of my childhood, Sophie's World, one of the messages of which that a child (and, ideally philosophers) have an endless capacity for wonder and discovery. For that little boy, there was no break between the solid world in front of him and the untouchable mystery of the blue sky, only an infinite world of possibility.
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