“We first address the uniqueness. If there were two rigid motions carrying the first figure to the second, then composing one with the inverse of the other would yield a nontrivial rigid motion leaving one entire figure in place.”
Kedlaya, Kiran S. Geometry Unbound. 2006. p. 24.
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“A common stratagem, when trying to prove that a given point has a desired property, is to construct a phantom point with the desired property, then reason backwards to show that it coincides with the original point. We illustrate this point with an example.”
Kedlaya, Kiran S. Geometry Unbound. 2006. p. 37.
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“One of the most elegant ways of establishing a geometric result is to dissect the figure into pieces, then rearrange the pieces so that the result becomes obvious.”
Kedlaya, Kiran S. Geometry Unbound. 2006. p. 33.
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“Runoff from the dirt road above the stadium, rather than trickling or rushing down into the estuary, will seep into the ground through the permeable pavers and then through layers of silt banked in tires and plastic bottles.
The tires are layered in such a way as to present a scalloped edge, in which hundreds of natives were planted. A politician, in a random and rare act of civil cooperation, came in to clean the area up and yanked all the natives out, believing them to be weeds. Gradual replanting is happening.”
Stern, Lesley. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. p. 24.
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“The ribbon of water has widened and forms a pool perhaps twenty feet wide, and the vista opens up as the wetlands stretch out and the water laces and disappears into an expansive ocean. I stop, filled with wonder, then turn my back on the ocean to face inland toward a land that is scarified.”
Lesley Stern. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. p. 19.
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“Unmanifest things, lacking names, remained unmanifest until the violence of God’s sense of isolation sent the heavens into a spasm of procreating words that then became matter.
God was nowhere until it was present to itself as the embodied names of animals, minerals, and vegetables.”
Howe, Fanny. The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2003. p. 12.
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"You came down from the mountains to the shore with your
father's voice ringing in your ears, saying over and over again the
call to prayer.
The stairs leading down to the water are cracked and marked by
awakening. Awakening in the south the morning sun shines lemon
yellow for eleven months, the leaves of the trees telling a book of
eleven dreams.
In this book, the sky is sometimes lavender. In this book are
colors like you have never seen before.
In this book is the taste of white peach.
The blue-black sea turns milky under the noon-sun.
In the twelfth dream your father is saying your name kindly and
gently, whispering into each of your folded ears.
In the year of summer you came south into a city of yellow and
white, and what was told of this city is told in trees, and then
in leaves, and then in light."
Ali, Kazim. "The Year of Summer." The Iowa Review 35, no. 2 (2005): 31.
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“At the horizon, where my line of sight touches the edge of the great globe itself, I watch ships slowly disappear, first the hulls and then the tall masts, bound on voyages to unknown ports 10,000 miles away. From beyond the horizon come the waves that break rhythmically on the beach, sounding now loud, now soft, as they did long before I was born and as they will in the far future.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“Talk for example runs along the margin invis-
ibly attaching itself to every scrap of possibility
including the empty possibility of what might have
been
Euphemism, ellipsis, digression, delay and
then night at last never going on ahead slides by side
by side with narrative one, narrative two, narrative
three, narrative four, sound track to sight track with
variation attained”
Hejinian, Lyn. Slowly. Willitis and Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 2002. p. 28.
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“In this way, we find that there were more than 365 days in the year some 400 million years ago. If we assume that the moon was nearer to the earth, then the earth was rotating more rapidly on its axis and the days were shorter and the years the same length.”
Urey, Harold C. "A Review of the Structure of the Moon." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 115, no. 2 (1971): 72.
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“To be truly free one must take on the basic conditions as they are—painful, impermanent, open, imperfect—and then be grateful for impermanence and the freedom it grants us. For in a fixed universe there would be no freedom.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 5.
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“The counterperson brings my tea in a bowl. The sound of a jet completely fills the sky, then fades away.
Elvis sings of the Bossa Nova. Next morning, the kitchen and dining room still smell of meatloaf.”
Silliman, Ron. "From "Under"." The Iowa Review 26, no. 2 (1996): 176.
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“Foals, still dripping with amniotic fluid, spend a few minutes bucking around to get the feel of their legs, then join the herd. Not so with humans. We come out limp and squalling and utterly dependent on round-the-clock care and supervision.”
Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. p. 117.
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“Repeat the same motion opening the next chakra, then the third chakra, then the heart, the throat, the eyes the third eye and then extend the arms upward with palms open gathering energy from the universe.
Bring the energy down to the crown chakra then guide the energy down the center of the body and store the energy in the dan t’ien (located below the navel) with the palms.”
Oliveros, Pauline. Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. New York: iUniverse, 2005. p. 8.
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“Delta
A river almost always rules itself.
It rules itself by choosing a load of
sand & mud & pebbles. When Lincoln
told clearly what democracy means, the
water of a river struck the sea. It
is his famous Gettysburg Address. In
most cases a river cannot carry its
government. It drops first the pebbles,
then the people. It may drop the idea
of democracy, so much that a fan of
land is built up. Such a fan of land
is called a delta.”
Notley, Alice. "Little Stories Of The World." Ambit, no. 43 (1970): 44.
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“They often feel the world is a grotesque enigma, that they are that; the
people, the billions of souls. At first they marveled, but then they discovered
they were dying of hunger for…
I am as hungry to be lonely as I am for the sound of the filmmaker’s steps
on the floor. But I’m most hungry to have made all there is, for you.”
Notley, Alice. From "Eurynome's Sandals." Chicago Review 54, no. 3 (2009): 141.
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“Lightly, lightly they lodge in the brown grasses and in the tasseled needles of the pines, falling hour after hour, day after day, silently, lovingly, — all the winds hushed, — glancing and circling hither, thither, glinting against one another, rays interlocking in flakes as large as daisies; and then the dry grasses, and the trees, and the stones are all equally abloom again.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 182.
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“The snow slowly vanishes, and the meadows show tintings of green. Then spring comes on a pace; flowers and flies enrich the air and the sod, and the deer come back to the upper groves like birds to an old nest.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 162.
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“We still remain – to use the old word – within metaphysics. Now by traversing these networks, we do not come to rest in anything particularly homogeneous. We remain, rather, within an infra-physics. Are we immanent, then, one force among others, texts among other texts, one society among other societies, being among beings?”
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 128.
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“And, without moving more than a few inches, I unfold in front of your eyes figures, diagrams, plates, texts, silhouettes, and then and there present things that are far away and with which some sort of two-way connection has now been established.”
Latour, Bruno. “Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands.” Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present: A Research Annual. Volume 6, 1986. Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press. p.14.
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“No doubt it is fascinating to read just how a scientific discovery is made; the misleading experimental data, the false starts, the long hours spent chewing the cud, the darkest hour before the dawn, and then the moment of illumination, followed by the final run down the home straight to the winning post.”
Crick, Francis. "How To Live With A Golden Helix." The Sciences, 1979, 6. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-604450-8.50006-7.
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“The underlying mechanism may be simple, but if the process is biologically important, then, in the long course of evolution, natural selection will have improved it and embroidered it, so that it can work both faster and more accurately.”
Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 69.
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“Because they fit together so precisely, each chain can be regarded as a mold for the other one. Conceptually the basic replication mechanism is very straightforward. The two chains are separated. Each chain then acts as a template for the assembly of a new companion chain, using as raw material a supply of four standard components.”
Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 66.
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“HAVE A HEART
Have heart Find head
Feel pattern Be wed
Smell water See sand
Oh boy Ain’t life grand
OH OH
Now and then
Here and there
Everywhere
On and on
WINTER
Season’s upon us
Weather alarms us
Snow riot peace
Leaves struck fist.”
Robert Creeley, “Gnomic Verses.” The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. p. 422.
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"HERE
Outstretched innocence
Implacable distance
Lend me a hand
See if it reaches
TIME
Of right Of wrong Of up Of down
Of who Of how Of when Of one
Of then of if Of in Of out
Of feel Of friend Of it Of now
MORAL
Now the inevitable
As in tales of woe
The inexorable toll
It takes, it takes."
Robert Creeley, “Gnomic Verses.” The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. p. 421.
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"ECHO
In the way it was in the street
it was in the back it was
in the house it was in the room
it was in the dark it was
FAT FATE
Be at That this
Come as If when
Stay or Soon then
Ever happen It will
LOOK
Particular pleasures weather measures or
Dimestore delights faced with such sights."
Robert Creeley, “Gnomic Verses.” The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. p. 421.
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For No Clear Reason
I dreamt last night
the fright was over, that
the dust came, and then water,
and women and men, together
again, and all was quiet
in the dim moon’s light.
Creeley, Robert. “For No Clear Reason.” Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
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“Since this is not the occasion for a searching discussion of that issue, I conclude by noting that when different and substantial constituencies of sane, decent, kind, and thoughtful humans disagree about the moral permissability of an action, then tolerance and mutual respect, not self-righteousness, coercion, and intolerance, are the virtues that ought to prevail.”
Churchland, Patricia. Our brains, our selves: Reflections on neuroethical questions. Bioscience and Society. 1991. p.84
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“But when the eye moves from the legible signature of a ship in a storm, or pictographic figures racing along the shore, and then plunges into the vast illegible confusion of storm and spray, when it returns to what is legible, vision brings with it the sense of terror in obscurity, and displaces the charge on to the floundering ship and the racing men; these now carry the affect of panic.”
Bryson, Norman. "Enhancement and Displacement in Turner." Huntington Library Quarterly 49, no. 1 (1986): 47-65. doi:10.2307/3817191. p. 60.
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