An old New Year’s Day story <br />of the Chartres master <br />and teacher <br />Alain de Lille [Alanus ab Insulis] <br /> <br />who was asked to prepare a lecture <br />on the trinity at the University of Paris <br />and took a walk beside the Seine <br />to imagine the mystery <br /> <br />there he saw a child <br />scooping water from <br />the river with a bucket and <br />pouring it out onto the bank <br /> <br />“What are you doing? ” <br />“I am, emptying the Seine.” <br />“You will not empty the Seine doing that.” <br />“I can as easily empty the river Seine doing this <br />as you can give a lecture on the trinity tomorrow <br />thinking like that, ” said the child.<br /><br />Joseph W Greif<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/emptying-the-seine/
