No. 19 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
I wrote last week’s story from Budapest, set in Budapest, and said I must take a break from these until January so as to finish my current writing project, the main manuscript. And yet. Here we are. Again. This story just came together. What was I to do? So, here it is. Here is hoping, after this, I switch from ‘story’ mode to a much longer story, ‘novel,’ mode. The two require a very different mindset.
The Persian and Urdu languages refer to the liver in figurative speech to indicate courage and strong feelings. The term jan e ... read more »
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No. 16 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
Capital “T” Truth
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Plank
Before Thais was interested in architecture she had an ambitious interest in physics.
Thais became engrossed in physics after reading a paper published in 1933 by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky showing that visible matter is ... read more »
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No. 12 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
Before there were mothers there were trees.
The aforementioned fact is well-known to all people who know such truth-learnings.
Ancient plants made it out of water 130 million years prior to the discovery of earth’s first modern tree which was 370 million years ago. Archaeopteris is an extinct tree that made up 90% of the forests. It took over a 100 million years for certain evolutionary features in Archaeopteris to attain trunks up to 3 feet wide and stand 60 to 90 feet tall. The features included rings—to support greater and greater ... read more »
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No. 11 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
Your shadow is the reason you cannot fly. It’s heavier than you know.
Thais, like most children of her time, could fly since she was little.
Some researchers and a few distrusted scientists believe there’s evidence to suggest that humans achieved flight earlier in history—much earlier—so early, they say, that the knowledge of this technology has been lost and ancient stories that recount adventures of human flight have been relegated only to myth.
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No. 10 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
One part of the authentic self wanders light years out in the interstellar spaces,
in exile from us.
The other part is buried so deep within us that to resurrect it would be another return from exile.
~ Harold Bloom
More than 3,500 years ago, 100 miles west of Luxor and 300 miles south of Cairo, there was a road next to the ancient Girga Road known as Bin Abas. It was one of the many roads which led to nowhere. Sometimes it brought the ... read more »
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