Hey Trevor, here are my thoughts
the title of Baker, and science immediately puts food, creating, patience, recipe's, experience into my head
"She eyes the flour and, needing more,
scatters pinches in precise places,"
I think these two lines going along with the title of science. Science is very methodical and requires reproducibility, but with baking if you have enough experience your own science becomes something that you don't even need to exactly measure out, you can just "eye" measurements, and that's your own personal science.
I like the imagery of galactic swirl - I think of the milky way
shoves the tray - forceful, contrast between calmness of sipping tea and observing.
She eyes the flour and, needing more,
scatters pinches in precise places,"
"She has no knowledge
to explain this transformation,"
difference between maybe practical knowledge from experience vs if you went to culinary school and were trained formally - or just looked up a recipe. I feel like there is more exploration and individual expression with this method since the individual baker with their own tastes and experiences are judging,not what someone else told them.
I like the contrast between formal exact science of how the world works, how humans have been able to create things to complete daily tasks, and the inexact science of going off of feel and trial and error.
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