An individual molecule of water can spend 200,000 years undisturbed in an icesheet in Antartica whereas in the ocean it may spend some 40,000 years. The same molecule can manage 1000 years in an underground reservoir, 10 years in a lake,10 days in the atmosphere. The same molecule in an animal’s body will endure only [...]
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Is God Out There?
Posted in religion,, tagged God, nature, physical form, speculative philosophy, spiritual aspect, temporal life, time.space on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oscar Wilde
Posted in anecdotes, tagged conversationalist, disgrace, gay, Irish wit, James Mcneill Whistler, tabletalk, trial on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wilde had an uneasy friendship with the artist James McNeill Whistler. In the autumn of 1883 Punch parodied one of their conversations about the Divine Sarah. Wilde cabled to Whistler, ”Punch too ridiculous. When you and I are together we never talk about anything but ourselves.”
Whistler cabled back: “No, no Oscar when you and I [...]
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