August 2011
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‘Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb. But whereas the fruit of the plant, the fruit of the animal, the fruit of the mother’s womb, assume autonomous and natural forms, art, the spiritual fruit of man, usually shows an absurd resemblance to the aspect of something else. Only in our own epoch have painting and sculpture been...
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Astronaut. Astronauts (plural).
Noun
Something that makes a space for itself.
Synonyms (in the old tongue)
Projection, Plan, Coordinate, Word, Organism, Xenogeny
Originating from Astronaut, A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth’s atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and...
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And now I’m mad about space junk I’m all burned out about space junk Walk and talk about space junk It smashed my baby’s head, space junk And now my sally’s dead, space junk
the blue buuus
is callin’ uuuus
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"Trailhead" by E. O. Wilson →
“By the time the colony had reached its full mature size, two years after the nuptial flight of the Queen, it contained more than ten thousand workers. It was able, in the following year, to rear virgin queens, and males, and through them to give birth to new colonies. By that time the Queen was producing eggs at the average rate of one every fifteen minutes. Heavy and torpid, she lay in...
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QUEEN GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
THE HAM No, black is the only colour I will ever wear!
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What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
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