“ Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: One, it’s completely impossible. Two, it’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along. ”
Arthur C. Clarke discussing a space elevator
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.This is the epitaph C.S. Lewis dedicated to his wife. This quality of the “single mind,” that it contains, reflects, and affects “the whole world”: it is in this sense that every death is the obliteration of an infinity, the end of a reality. In this light, calculations about life and death are absurd. What can justify the destruction of the stars, water, air, field, forest, and everything else one has within oneself?
That is not to say there are no other ways of thinking.
Beautiful. I love that man.
Dear John (movie trailer)
Directed by Lasse Halström and based on the novel by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, DEAR JOHN tells the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John’s increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas—correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences.
I am very comfortable in my masculinity and I want to see this movie.
Librería El Ateneo is a bookstore in Buenos Aires that was once a theatre called Teatro Grand Splendid. (Photo by chenick.)
My two favorite things!
“ To know how good you are at something requires the same skills as it does to be good at that thing. ”
On “tortoise enclosures.”
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