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Leaves of Grass
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
For a brilliant evocation of this aspect of life, see “Shedding Life: On the Mysteries of Dying, Cell by Cell,” by Czechoslovakian research immunologist and poet Miroslav Holub, Science 86, April 1986, 51–53. See also Wicken, “Thermodynamics, Evolution and Emergence,” in Weber, Depew, and J. D. Smith, Entropy, Information, and Evolution, 166.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the... See more
What dies? Illusion dies, expectations die, greed for having it all, for wanting to have all be beautiful only, all this dies.