Doug
without a scientific background, I've always taken it as a given that
we don't know what most of everything is, whether 95 per cent or not.
It possibly helps having grown up in Brummagem, where everyone is in a
continual state of surprise about anything, but I also know that most
of we don't even understand what goes inside each other's heads, let
alone the most distant galaxies, the scents in stardust, the
beginnings of time, who really runs the local council, the behaviour
of traffic wardens or what that strange guy in the pub was on about.
Best
Dave
2008/11/8 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Yes, what a land/word/scape viewed from above, Peter. I really like both, as
> moves toward what horizon...
>
> Doug
> On 8-Nov-08, at 3:09 PM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
>
>> At least this moment, for at least this
>> moment<http://ciccariello.viewbook.com/this_moment>
>> ** * * *We had a predilection for flying*
>>
>> At least this moment, for at least this moment
>> We had a predilection for flying,
>> Sitting far back in seats 146b or 175c
>> Next to the window, the back of the plane
>> And if sometimes, passing over the marble steps of the palace
>> or the hidden interior of our own secrecy or sometimes after barely
>> clipping
>> our abyss
>> Of reluctant assimilation to reveal the mournful solitude of our dreaming
>> We would wake again drunk with the wind and everything that was flying
>> with
>> us
>> Over this dense black mirror of ocean everything that was supposed to be
>> guarding us and
>> Our practiced stumbling our flight out of the tunnel our reeling into
>> The blinding light that we surged past now as if we were unaware again
>> As if we had just thrown ourselves up into the air and reached our hands
>> out
>> to fly
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> We now know that 95 per cent of the universe is made of the something other
> than those 12 particles. And we have very little idea what the other 95 per
> cent is, which is kind of embarrassing.
>
> Brian Cox
>
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