Or, as my former student, Kelly said so succinctly, "Love before curriculum". What do you love about teaching and why?
"There was a fear of someone else, a fear of change," Adams remembered, later describing the mood succinctly as "contempt before investigation".
Of course I realise that what I really need to get my business going is "some catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor" (as the Project For The New American Century put it so succinctly a year before 9/11).
Some of the most successful of these gestures achieve evocative transformations without adding much: Martha Rosler's rope bridges, for example, succinctly conjure a world before cast concrete, while Karen Kilimnik proposes a layer of silver glitter inside and out, which seems both decadent and girly.
Standing in front of a Homo erectus diorama (now recognized as Homo ergaster) in Africa, which depicts a couple carving raw meat and warding off imposing scavengers on the savanna, the child asked his mother, "Mom, why don't we look like that anymore?" His mother paused a moment before answering succinctly, and surprisingly, "Because we left Africa".
Nor have I heard it framed so succinctly as a contextual narrative before.
Asked why he bothered, the father replied succinctly, "I've been wrong before".
When posed with a question, they usually let the question sink in before answering it succinctly, supported by sculptural references and formal transgressions.
"Never before had someone so casually, yet so succinctly, indicted my life's ambitions," Tyson later wrote.
