Friday, November 18, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes
AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes:
"I knew a lad who went to sea and left the shore behind him.
I knew him well the lad was me and now I cannot find him."
"I knew a lad who went to sea and left the shore behind him.
I knew him well the lad was me and now I cannot find him."
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Friday, November 04, 2016
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
‘The woman is a disaster!’: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton
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Monday, October 31, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Small Fires In the Deep
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Small Fires In the Deep: I think understanding the world more (perhaps) than our remote ancestors did in no way reduces the awe and wonder.
Our ancestors saw the Milky Way and made up stories about goddesses spilling milk. But now, try looking towards Sagittarius on a clear, moonless night and remember that each of those minute glowing dots you see is a sun perhaps greater than our own, and the haze of light is composed of such dots too shrunken by distance to see - and the light you see from that direction started on its way before the invention of agriculture, before the domestication of animals, maybe even before we learned to make fire. A thousand generations that light has been on its way, for you to see it tonight.
More wonder, not less. And then, if you can see both parts of the sky on the same night, look towards Andromeda...
The wonder of Gods ability
Our ancestors saw the Milky Way and made up stories about goddesses spilling milk. But now, try looking towards Sagittarius on a clear, moonless night and remember that each of those minute glowing dots you see is a sun perhaps greater than our own, and the haze of light is composed of such dots too shrunken by distance to see - and the light you see from that direction started on its way before the invention of agriculture, before the domestication of animals, maybe even before we learned to make fire. A thousand generations that light has been on its way, for you to see it tonight.
More wonder, not less. And then, if you can see both parts of the sky on the same night, look towards Andromeda...
The wonder of Gods ability
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