EMBARK embark/im-'bark/ vb [MF embarquer, Fr. OProv embarcar, Fr. em- (Fr. L im-) + barca bark] vt 1: to cause to go on board a boat or airplane. 2: to engage, enlist, or invest in an enterprise. 1: to go on board a boat or airplane for transportation. 2: to make a start: COMMENCE <~ed on a new career> Begun. Perhaps not the best of beginnings. Still. Having begun impossible not to.       A solid lump of substance will just sit there harmlessly       (say, a lemon or a melon), but:       beyond the critical point, the system suddenly       attains the capacity for self-reference, & thereby       dooms itself to incompleteness A pretty thot. Without the threat of a dog barking at one's heels       or a gun to the head.       A critical point is inherent which triggers an explosion How water knows to freeze at 0° C & boil at 100° C       or uranium becomes a bomb. Not 'know' that kind of 'know' yet in a limited sense. I HAVE NEVER HAD AN ORIGINAL IDEA IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Unable to step into that same fucking river twice (or once, even) without picking up something I say I 'know'. Like, what we name a thing makes a difference. Why a rose is not a palindrome or a quark or a river (tho we can image a river of roses, a golden braid of river       flowing deep within the rose). Why this rose is not this rose. Or cold water turns hot at the suggestion & raises a welt. Tricks performed without mirrors & nothing up the sleeve. Except. The head of this rose with enuf critical energy       to explode any river back to its beginning. No lemon, no melon.