Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:19:42 12/23/00
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Hi Tim: Sensible words are yours. It remembers me a book by Henry Miller entitled "The Colossus or Maroussi". There Miller tells the reader his experience with another writter, Lawrence Durrel, when both visited the astronomical observatory of Atenas around 1939. The scientists there tried to impress them with numbers, as usually scientist does when facing lay people: how distant that constellation was, he much time the light took to arrive to them, etc. Both laughed. They considered those numbers as irrelevant, futile things. One second, one year? So what? 10000000000000 miles or just one step? So what? What did impress them was the sheer beauty and meaning of the spectacle. BTW, "Meaning" is a word that scientists hate the most: they cannot measure with his tools that kind of things. What Miller say about that is memorable. Get the book and find that part. It is worth the effort. Fernando
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