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06-NOV

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Unforgettable

Exhausted! by G.Garchar (2022)
Sutro Tower by G.Garchar (2022)
Presidio of San Francisco

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. What do you see?–Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.

But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster–tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. 

How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here? But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.

Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.

No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.

And there they stand–miles of them–leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues–north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite.

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Gibson Girls by Charles Dana Gibson

23-OCT

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Santana Row by G.Garchar
Almaden Quicksilver County Park

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Let it drain you of your all, cling onto your back, and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.

Let it devour your remains – for all things will kill you, both slowly & fastly – but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

Kinky Friedman

20-OCT

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Seduction

Who but an atheist could think of leaving the world without having first made up his account?

It is then he will find in what mighty stead that heathen goddess, that virtue, which you and all other deists of the age adore, will stand him.

Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding

Avoid at all cost the priorities in your life that aren’t in your top five, because they’re the ambitions insufficiently important to form the core of your life, yet seductive enough to distract you from the priorities that matter most.

Oliver Burkeman

16-SEP

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Economics

Anomie Theory describes the effects of early industrialism and the resulting social division of labor with rising suicide rate. Accordingly, in times of social upheaval, “collective consciousness” is weakened and previous norms, moral convictions, and controls dwindle.

Durkheim

12-AUG

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Psychosis

Faked or Flawed

“Computer,” said Zaphod, “tell us again what our present trajectory is.”

“A real pleasure, feller,” it burbled, “we are currently in orbit at an altitude of 300 miles around the legendary planet of Magrathea.”

“Proving nothing,” said Ford. “I wouldn’t trust that computer to speak my weight.”

“I can do that for you, sure,” enthused the computer, punching out more tickertape. “I can even work out your personality problems to 10 decimal places if it will help.”

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)

09-AUG

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Solitude

Sun Magazine

When you’re in a place of natural silence, you’re not alone, and you can feel it. Whether it’s birdcalls from miles away or the proximity of a giant tree whose warm tones you can feel, there’s a presence. It’s a quieting experience.

–Gordon Hempton, in August 2023 Sun Magazine

30-JUL

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Reflection

AM-arqstudio, Braga, Portugal (2021)

If the space terms predominate in the expression for the interval between event-points, the interval is said to be space-like, since it is then possible to select a co-ordinate system–belonging to an observer with an admissible velocity, in which the events appear simultaneous, and therefore separated only spatially.

If, however, the interval is time-like, the events cannot be simultaneous in any co-ordinate system, but there exists a co-ordinate system in which the space terms will vanish entirely, so that the separation between events will be purely temporal, id est, occurring at the same place, but at different times.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)