The Academia Game Caught into the whirlpool of Abstract Mode. She was writing abstracts for work, for admission to conferences for competitions and exhibitions. Became so abstracted that she became very good at writing these paragraph length bite size chunks of research concentrated information. She forgot how to write deep, how to write long and how to write wide. She is in the research zone but so far away from a conclusion of any kind, a standing up stance of any sort or a side to come down on. She is with it but running to catch up collecting seeds of information all useful stuff and gathering it into her research basket, only to throw it away over her shoulder as she moves on to other seeds. Jumping to catch a glimpse over a tall crowd of authors and thinkers She thinks she is getting it but is it just the foot of an elephant? image: wiki commons , the Walk of Ideas Berlin.