re: Only innocence can surmount them ... when we find ourselves able to listen to things, totally and intensely absorbed in child play. — Grothendieck Apropos

re: Only innocence can surmount them ... when we find ourselves able to listen to things, totally and intensely absorbed in child play. — Grothendieck Apropos is something another Frenchman once said: "Talent is long patience, and originality an effort of will and of intense observation." — Flaubert