Parenting, not to be confused with curatorship –– it teaches asymmetrically.
Like Bell's palsy, the face one places before the child loses its nerve at random, fails to manage, and –– self-limiting –– reacts to seizure with blind attention.
1/ Homage to Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, and author of the screenplay for Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960).
2/ A shorthand for this vertigo of the unfolding epigram: the experience of an aphorism as it re-engineers the world, whether cruelly, or paternally, in the model sense of the word, as a house-husband delighting the orchid in its pram.