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Our brains cannot see more than 20 events per second – falcons see 70–80; they are unable to recognize the 25-pictures-per-second moving image on a television screen. Seeing things closer together in time than we do allows them to stretch
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Our brains cannot see more than 20 events per second – falcons see 70–80; they are unable to recognize the 25-pictures-per-second moving image on a television screen. Seeing things closer together in time than we do allows them to stretch out a foot at full speed to grab a bird or a dragonfly from the air.
“If Sartre was right that hell is other people—then other people in a tour bus traveling through Poland may be whatever they call the place below hell … or at least one corner of it.”
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
“The true dwellers help you embrace
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
― Born A Free Spirit
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
― Born A Free Spirit
“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
“Here is the essence of Cather's far-reaching humanism: a reverence for the barbarous existence by beauty making civilization. Wherever humanity has made the hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of brutality, is a sacred spot. (refers to places like Mesa Cliff Dwellings in Colorado)”
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
“Comparing the Gaza Strip and the Warsaw Ghetto ... Which opens up the whole Mein Kampf-ed, blood-libel, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, rampantly racist full-on-fascism-to-keep-us-safe-from-vermin situation. MAGA Unleashed. By the time you read this, the camps may already be opening.”
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
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