Posts by Islander
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to Emma Hart,
If another one happens in v.early September (I’ve a reading at the Press R&W fest.
on the ?2nd (I think)) – I’d be a Starter. Would Bring Heartland Chips… -
Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Lilith __,
My Grandma always insisted on “paper table-napkin”.
We still call 'em paper napkins...confuses the hell out of some people...
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Jake Pollock,
Awwww!
They got a real herd of them dang things!Act-u-ally, I find that really human/humane-
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Will de Cleene,
ah, I admit that metaphor needs significant plastic surgery. More apt aphorisms welcomed. Just how freaking awesome is the Hogg’s Bison?
Report
When it's coralled from the wild and me & mine can stroke it gently & welcome it into our 5-dimensional tepee-without wanting to skin or eat it -I'll know we have grown up as a species!
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Kracklite,
Ahem, one does not make leaps into the absurd within reason, one makes leaps into the absurd using reason taken to its extreme
That is one point of view...
I happily engage with absurdity & fantasy of all kinds - but prefer - indeed expect - an underlay of our species' kind of reason- when we're talking to each other-
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Kracklite,
Kia ora! Yes, I have seen TFIW - and I wasnt being absurd about the great molluscs!
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Lilith __,
Aint PAS enlightening & marvellous?
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Will de Cleene,
Imagine snails working out how to predict lunar eclipses. It’s that amazing.
Um, arnt we making a leap into the absurd here? (I thoroughly appreciate leaps into absurdity -within reason!)
Snails are excellent beings -but they dont do rational (let alone mathematical et al)
reasoning. Our species does.
What the physicists have done is in keeping with our species' abilities.If snails suddenly started cementing sand - iron!- granules togther & making high-arched bridges over hot-water streams...I'd call that an equivalent, and make an application to be one of the ambassadors to the Molluscan Republic.
But we all know the squids & octopi will get there first...
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Lilith __,
Yeeeessss, she said in an heartfelt fashion ( remembering the waste hours spent digging her first longdrop....)
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
When anybody was putting in a longdrop at Big O (we are talking nearly 40years plus ago) we'd wait for the Harbour board to come to reassess the wharf-piles - with the pile-drill - a leetle bit of beer & sweet-talking = really good long drop!