Curiosity and Intellectual Loneliness

A question is an offer, which is why curiosity carries a loneliness that no appetite for facts would explain. Curiosity reaches outward. It offers a question or an unfinished thought and waits for someone else to take it up. When the offer is returned with another question, both people enter ground that neither occupied before. When it meets a shrug, a joke or a quick change of subject, a bid for…