Fourteen months of reading were supposed to take the guessing out.
They have taken out everything except the guessing,
and left it standing on its own in the middle of the floor where I have to look at it.

I know more than I did and I am less certain than I was.
That is not a defect in the reading. That is what the reading is for.
Nobody mentioned that it would feel exactly like failure on the night it finally worked.

The Book of the Scholar — Wall 41:7