The Project: Insatiable Curiosity
Although I can't speak from personal experience, I suspect that the Elephant Child's insatiable curtiosity equates to the common-or-garden two-year-old's persistent requests for explanation.
Why?
On the other hand, I'm speaking from personal experience when I suggest that some of us — taking a glance at the mirror — never lose it. Fortunately, once we've learnt to read and can find these things out for ourselves, the questions become unverbalised. A little further down the track, that curiosity can be curbed and channelled — at least for some of us — within the school curriculum or some external avenue of inquiry. But almost invariably, insatiable curiosity usually walks hand in hand with a tendency to accumulate information. Who knows? I might need to come back to that later. Inevitably, the accumulated who, what, when and where are accompanied by how and why. Much of that information is committed to memory; inevitably, some of it ends up on paper — physically or virtually.
And, when the accumulator decides to turn some of it into text, the decision delivers a dilemma to the would-be author. Although I know this, what about the reader?
