... a poetic image posted in reply to a Category Theory question [1] by user "Retra", some of whose comments seem similarly intriguing, e.g., excerpted:

• "You are free to leave until they detain you."
• "Theseus' ship is not a problem for materialistic explanations of anything; it's a problem for anybody who thinks the nature of a thing is governed by the words used to describe it."
• "Most engineering is based on mathematics because proofs are a powerful support for any idea you plan to implement."
• "The center of mass of a massless object makes as much sense as 'everywhere' being a location of anything."
• "Computers 'imagine' things all the time. The fact that we do not use the word 'imagine' to describe it is immaterial. Words do not dictate behavior."
• "Humans can already create humans that can outsmart them, and only every so often do they solve an interesting problem here or there."
• "Everything can be 'very different' when you ignore all the things that are the same."

... and in response to a critique of such comments, Retra's meta-comment:

• "We all walk a fine line between precision and conciseness, and sometimes we end up on the wrong side."

(typos fixed and comments extracted from context for impact) - ^z - 2019-04-27