Eggs of various common species of British wild bird
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Eggs for Eyes
Category Archives: Science
Strativarius
Multicolored rock strata at Zhangye National Geopark, 張掖國家地質公園, China
Potent Pencivity
“A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.” — Howard Whitley Eves (1911-2004)
Multicolore Mondo Macao
Red and yellow maccaw, Macrocercus aracanga, by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
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(Now Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
Vacancy Vanquished
We never sighted the slightest suggestion of life all the way to Vancouver, twelve days of chilly boredom, though there was a certain impressiveness in the very dreariness and desolation. There was a hint of the curious horror that emptiness always evokes, whether it is a space of starless night or a bleak and barren waste of land. The one exception is the Sahara Desert where, for some reason that I cannot name, the suggestion is not in the least of vacancy and barrenness, but rather of some subtle and secret spring of life. — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography (1929), ch. 57
Previously Pre-Posted…
Cataclysmic Cliterature
Dare YOU enter the world of the Cannibal HolocAusten…?
This From The Abyss
Tripod fish, Bathypterois sp.
მოგვი მზეფე მცენარეების
Up-conjured by the magus sun,
A daffodil’s a golden gun
That stoops its head lest it should be
A slayer inadvertently.
Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum
The toxic title of this portmanteau-porting post is, of course, self-explanatory.
Green and Not Heard
Stu’s Views
“Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon; it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.” — Stuart Sutherland (1927-98), in The International Dictionary of Psychology (1995), entry on “Consciousness”
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 