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The microscopic cells that formed your face in the photograph your parents have hanging in their living room are gone, exchanged for others. You’re no longer who you were. The atoms may swap their places but nobody can control the dance of the quarks. And the same applies to the people you love.
— May 31, 2022 08:31AM
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How desperate is it possible to be?
That's something that's never been researched.
There are no statistics.
There are no graphs to compare oneself with.
No diagrams with uplifting figures.
— May 22, 2022 06:52AM
That's something that's never been researched.
There are no statistics.
There are no graphs to compare oneself with.
No diagrams with uplifting figures.
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I wish I could say I’d found it years later, than I’d tripped over it one day on a walk through the trees and dense undergrowth, but I never did, it was gone forever in the chaos of the afternoon, lost in battle, like so many of the things we don’t need, but that we mourn when they disappear, because everything that’s ever been, will be mourned, default-mode, more or less.
— May 18, 2022 03:37AM
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Some people wouldn’t want the whole world even if they could have it. Some people just want to be a part of a whole. Useful, if inconsequential. Not everybody needs the whole world.
— May 16, 2022 03:38AM
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With almost stationary velocity they crumble in your arms and you wish you could cling onto something permanent in them, their skeleton, their teeth, brain cells, but you can’t, because almost everything is water, impossible to grasp. And gradually every trace they left is gone, the house they once lived in, the drawings they made for you, the words they wrote on scraps of paper that vanished.
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Poetic. Not an author I have heard of - worth a punt?
Ray wrote: "Poetic. Not an author I have heard of - worth a punt?"I read it for the reading club Ray - apparently Harstad is now one of the five most popular authors of Norway. I have quite mixed feelings about this book, it has some poetic and fascinating lines and leitmotifs but it contains a bit too much detail and explanation to my taste - and as set mostly on the Faroe Islands I was disappointed not to find more (real) sheep in it, only wooden ones!
When Science meets Poetry. Thanks for sharing, Ilse. Lovely.Science is so much more beautiful then most people realise. Feynman taught me that. :)
Ebba Simone wrote: "Interesting!"Ebba, glad you thought so. The reading club often prompts me to read authors I wouldn’t have considered reading without them, and often it are Scandinavian authors. Even if sometimes a little more contemporary than my usual fare or taste, the discoveries I chanced upon this way make it worth it ;)
