Looking at the fairy tale in another way.
If we search with slipper in hand to find again the Cinderella (or Cinderfella) that it fits by placing it on every possible foot in the land is that what finds her? As much as we wish to find the fit and try as hard as we might to make the fit happen might we be carrying the wrong slipper? The wrong way to fit it to the foot? Focus on the foot is the most distant body object from the mind.
That would be a twist on the story! One that requires a higher level of abstraction defining what is fixed, what is variable. What is where. What is a physical slipper and and what is its conceptual nature distinct from its physical nature.
Failure to fit physically is not failure to find conceptually!
How chained to the earth we become by literal fairy tales!
They were not meant to be literal! It is a challenge to grasp the conceptual meaning.
How many dreams do we fail to find fit the attribute we assign to the slipper we carry with us? The key attribute that would otherwise find our Cinderella? Cinderfella?
The conceptual fit of the slipper.
The key and the lock.
A conceptual slipper is better but may often have the same result of not fitting the conceptual foot.
It is a plan B to plan A.
There is no plan C except to try plan A again.
Slippers are conceptually custom made.
Poetry is a princess that lives in a palace located in the lofty wonder of a high level of abstraction connecting our physical world to a high level wonder of conceptual beauty.
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