NASA’s Juno captures the moon in orbit around the Earth during a flyby
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motion. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Grails – “Future Primitive”
Deep Politics
Grails takes it back a couple notches after the sublime Burning Off Impurities and tense Doomsdayer’s Holiday. Here be restrained distortion, subtle arrangements, piano solus, and less overall dread. It’s Morricone-infused 70s psych rock with an undercurrent of unease, and it’s a very good listen. (insound)
Emperors are necessarily wretched men since only their assassination can convince the public that the conspiracies against their lives are real.
Domitian (shortly before his own assassination)
J.M.W. Turner – Death on a Pale Horse
For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute.
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
Yang Yongliang – Moonlight; the landscape without light (large version here)
Their silence was of no ordinary kind.
said of the Pythagoreans
