Posts Tagged ‘scale’

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Quiet Babylon

by Somerled on June 3, 2009 at 10:05 am
Posted In: News

Let’s talk about scale! My friend, Tim Maly, writes a blog called Quiet Babylon, and in this post he discusses scale: http://www.quietbabylon.com/2009/05/29/6-things-that-give-me-a-crushing-sense-of-scale/ These Secret Vespers installments are tagged with scale, though many others could be. That crushing sense is one of the hardest sensations for me to put to words. Like love, hope, and so [...]

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Tornado

by Somerled on October 8, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Posted In: Comic
the best things don't last

Many of my friends see these banks fail and they find it exciting. This isn’t schadenfreude—I think destruction and change inspire us. They leave a swath of wide open possibility. It may create some human tragedy, but also taps into a sense of freedom and awe. What do you think? Have you seen large-scale destruction? [...]

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I counted for five hours

by Somerled on October 2, 2008 at 10:51 am
Posted In: Lovesick

I hear that one hundred thousand people pass through my metro stop every day. I stayed up last night trying to count that high. I counted for five hours and I only reached thirty-six thousand. I fell asleep as the sun was rising. I saw the dawn’s first joggers. I used to sleep with a [...]

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Geometry Waiting

by Somerled on November 9, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Posted In: Comic
we should build more of these

What can last forever, waiting: geometry, the edge of the universe, making shapes out of shapes. Wave forms written over eternity. What do you think of the idea that some of the objects you see in the night sky ceased to exist long ago? Their light is still streaming out like a ghost.

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