No.108
Not necessarily gentle, but then whoever said Saturdays had to be gentle all over—I think it's probably important to take the word 'tormented' with a pinch of salt, but this quote definitely encourages a person to view certainty, or what we like to refer to as certainty, a little differently, which is no bad thing.
(Fools are we, often, to believe such a sureness could ever be.)
(I do actually think gentle Saturdays are well worth everybody's time.)
WORK-RELATED NEWS:
For reasons unknown, readers in Italy and Piccolo libro illustrato dell' universo seem to really be getting along. I'm hugely pleased to report that the Italian edition of Eating the Sun has kept appearing (below is a feature in the Italian daily newspaper la Repubblica). One of the stranger parts of having a piece of work printed in different languages and countries is seeing whether or not, or how much, people like it—seeing the transferring of my intentions and feelings-about-physics into languages that for the most part I cannot read is not going to become normal, not cease to seem magical, anytime soon.
THIS WEEK I FELL IN LOVE WITH:
These 19th Century cross-sectional maps, of geological formations, land and sea, the cosmos. Initially intended for classroom use, they were published in 'Geographical Portfolio – Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' by Levi Walter Yaggy in 1887, as large two by three-foot posters.
Details for the most part, the original posters can all be viewed here (via).
He looked at me and said something sensible.
The end.
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