Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Inorganic Chemistry
Quad's son, age 6, traveling across town, windows down:
"That smells like someone ate popcorn that wasn't organic and then spit it up."
Mouths of babes.
Coral streaks this morning in a blue-grey cloudbank reckoned at 50% chance of rain. Bloomsbury.
In Indonesia, in the Minangkabau uplands of West Sumatra, Naipaul tells of Pitapang families with the gift/curse of rain: weddings are showered. It does not pay to pay the dukun.
Further:
"Perhaps it is this absence of the sense of sacredness - which is more than the idea of the "environment" - that is the curse of the New World, and is the curse especially of Argentina and ravaged places like Brazil. And perhaps it is this sense of sacredness - rather than history and the past - that we of the New World travel to the Old to rediscover."
"That smells like someone ate popcorn that wasn't organic and then spit it up."
Mouths of babes.
Coral streaks this morning in a blue-grey cloudbank reckoned at 50% chance of rain. Bloomsbury.
In Indonesia, in the Minangkabau uplands of West Sumatra, Naipaul tells of Pitapang families with the gift/curse of rain: weddings are showered. It does not pay to pay the dukun.
Further:
"Perhaps it is this absence of the sense of sacredness - which is more than the idea of the "environment" - that is the curse of the New World, and is the curse especially of Argentina and ravaged places like Brazil. And perhaps it is this sense of sacredness - rather than history and the past - that we of the New World travel to the Old to rediscover."
