And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.
James AgeeTags: infinity darkness nothingness
It's called the Infinity Effect.
Edward M. WolfeTags: energy power infinity funny apocalypse gullibility effect disaster apocalyptic radio catastrophe mirror disasters catastrophes post-apocalyptic mirrors battery nuclear silly nuclear-bomb batteries in-the-end wolfe gullible apocalipse edward-wolfe b-o-b bug-out-bag carries-energy energy-company first-strike mushroom-cloud particle-wave power-company power-outage transistor transistor-radios transistors
[Infinity is] a journey around the earth on a plane that goes forever.
Kate HosfordTags: infinity kids-point-of-view
He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: truth infinity insight value-of-life
Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied. Then one more guest arrived. So the owner moved the guest in room number 1 into room number 2; the guest in room number 2 into number 3; the guest in 3 into room 4, and so on. In that way room number 1 became vacant for the new guest.
What delights me about this story is that everyone involved, the guests and the owner, accept it as perfectly natural to carry out an infinite number of operations so that one guest can have peace and quiet in a room of his own. That is a great tribute to solitude.
Tags: solitude infinity cantor
Dreams are real; dreams exert influence
Elaina J. DavidsonYou're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.
Jenny SampirisiTags: hope infinity gratitude head leap swamp biological-determinism ribbit
I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. . . .
H.P. LovecraftTags: poetic death madness stars infinity shadows daemons
Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: truth love power freedom infinity awareness desire divinity limitation
When I lie back and close my eyes, this farthest lip of beach right next to the end of the ocean feels like being up close to an enormous breathing being, the bass drum surf thump reverberating through the sand. Living out here with no lights, alone, you would indeed become sensitive to seasons, rhythms, weather, sounds- right up next to the sea, right up under the sky, like lying close to a lover’s skin to hear blood and breath and heartbeat.
Paul BogardTags: nature stars wonder infinity ocean sensuality night-sky stargazing
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