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Carpe Diem: NASA Tracking Ocean Currents
Trippy. And not just trippy, but a reminder of the flux in which each of us tries to maintain a stable, prolonged, and individual identity. Good luck with that.
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Tagged climate, climate change, flow, global warming, NASA, oceanography, oceans, science, water
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Jack Kerouac: “I enter my page”
A great Jack Kerouac quote on the hollowness of pursuing fame: I can just see the shabby literary man carrying a “bulging briefcase” rushing from one campus to another, one lecture club to another, nodding confirmation with his hosts that … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, fame, holy, Jack Kerouac, life, love, music, narcissism, poetry, quotes, water, writing
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Dreaming about UFOs
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Tagged aquarium, Freud, jellyfish, Jung, Long Beach Aquarium, ocean, psychology, UFOs, unconscious, water
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Poem for a Weekend: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”
I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and … Continue reading
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Tagged elizabeth bishop, fish, fishing, lakes, life, nature, ocean, poems, poetry, rivers, science, water
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A Water World Like Earth’s?
Scientists have found one. So reports Ian Musgrave at Panda’s Thumb. The planet orbits a star in the Gliese 581 system: “Importantly, the orbit for Gliese 581d has been refined too. It is now definitely within the habitable zone of … Continue reading
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The Ancient Romans Were Big Water Consumers
So says Spiegel today: [In ancient Rome] there were thousands of fountains, drinking troughs and thermal baths. Rich senators refreshed themselves in private pools and decorated their gardens with cooling grottos. The result was a record daily consumption of over … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Rome, baths, ecology, environment, fountains, gardens, Phoenix, resources, Rome, water
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Walt Whitman: “To be indeed a God!”
O to attract by more than attraction! How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest, It is offensive, never defensive—yet how magnetic it draws. O to struggle against great odds, to … Continue reading
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Apollo and Dionysus, or Gilagmesh and Enkidu: A Nietzschean Reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh
In the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh there are two chief characters: Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Both are male, and it is striking that ancient Mesopotamian culture hit upon the same overriding tensions between these two characters as those that Friedrich Nietzsche, in his … Continue reading
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