Now see this, dear reader, imagine the scene : Of a submarine hunting the sea. A brain and two eyes inside spy through a viewer, Thinks: down here, ze ships can't see me ! All it takes is one look, and doing some sums Tells me where and how fast the ship's going. Launch a torpedo to meet when it comes, In bitz the gut ship be a-blowing. But what if Heinrich was unable to fathom how A boat was a-coming or going ? Ist starboard port when stern becomes bow ? Mein Gott ! Sums have no way of knowing.
The ship that he saw, yet did not, had been Dazzled. Camo -, but not, stalled his thinking. Two hundred + ships, painted starboard + port = Thousands were saved from a sinking.
See — confusion has function before it is measured. Brown cows lazy dogs in equation. And what we can't fathom should therefore be treasured. Look-stopping is good on occasion.
– " These Woodcuts Could Safeguard a Nation !, " Will Holder, Dot Dot Dot #9, 2004
Edward Wadsworth,
Camouflaged ship in dry dock, 1918,
Woodcut, 51.2 x 41.2 cm