Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Who are we?

Putting things into perspective.

at 9/20/2006 09:34:00 AM

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tout est relatif... Bizarre mais je me sens d'un coup toute petite...
bise... et merci pour le lien vers mon blog ;+)
Magali

9/20/2006 3:54 PM
Anonymous said...

The reminds me of a poem by Thomas Campion:

What if a day, or a month, or a yeare
Crown thy delights with a thousand sweet contentings?
Cannot a chance of a night or an howre
Crosse thy desires with as many sad tormentings?
Fortune, honor, beauty, youth
Are but blossoms dying;
Wanton pleasure, doating love,
Are but shadowes flying.
All our joyes are but toyes,
Idle thoughts deceiving;
None have power of an howre
In their lives bereaving.

Earthes but a point to the world, and a man
Is but a point to the worlds compared centure:
Shall then a point of a point be so vaine
As to triumph in a seely points adventure?
All is hassard that we have,
There is nothing biding;
Dayes of pleasure are like streames
Through faire meadowes gliding.
Weale and woe, time doth goe,
Time is ever turning:
Secret fates guide our states,
Both in mirth and mourning.

11/13/2006 5:17 PM
Tony said...

Bonjour JoAnn! Thanks for this text, I really like Campion too (and not only because he was a scientist too ;-) )

11/13/2006 5:23 PM
jaysonmm said...

Wow thanks for the lesson in size Tony. It has really expanded my view of the universe.

11/27/2006 1:37 PM
Tony said...

So does it answer this eternal philosophical question "Does size matter?" ?

11/27/2006 1:48 PM

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