Deep Thoughts

"... in China there had been simple fisherman who could catch enormous fish... using cane-poles and a single strand of silk. 'A line breaks,' Titus said, 'at a stress point. But if the fisherman experiences no stress, and if he transmits this experience through his hands to his pole, to his line, to his hook, then there will be no stress point, therefore no point at which the strand can break.'"

- from "The River Why" by David James Duncan