You've probably heard someone say this kind of thing before: "Now that you know how it works, doesn't that take all the fun out of it?" Plenty of people endeavor to study subjects they feel inexorably drawn to—and certainly not to rid them of their fun or magic. It's like explaining the joke; as if …
Tag: astronomy
Poem: A Beat Behind
A Beat Behind Kant says we are removed from these moments of our lives and we only know their effect just as our vision of stars’ light, living on after their technicolored deaths, is distant from the star itself, heaving gas and heat, a flame – no, a frame of light just visible and always …
Easy to Forget
Below are a few brief thoughts I wanted to share with you all before I get back to doing what I should really be doing. (That ever-growing pile of clothes next to my bed isn't going to fold itself?) A wonderful description of love I came across today, from this poem: "I have one way …