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[demiurgent]

They say we know all there is to know.

They say the world has no magic.

And then, sometimes, the oceans glow.

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[cpip.livejournal.com]

They are clearly fools and imbeciles and repeat such mantras to maintain a fragile sanity in a world that makes no sense.

[vagabond-sal.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

May I quote you if I relink this on my LJ?

[(Anonymous)]

talk about weirdness, I just find it reassuring that there is always something new to learn.

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that be me. Just reformatted my system and didn't realise that I didn't have my login auto-set ^_^;

[slipstreamsurfr.livejournal.com]

(chuckle) and as I clicked the link I thought of Jules Verne.....

Nice to see a nod to him in the article. Nice link. Thanks!

[troutman.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'm convinced that Captain Nemo has himself cryogenically frozen, and he only recently thawed out.

That'd explain the glow to ME, anyway...

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

They say we know all there is to know.

Does anybody actually say that? 0.o

-Ramshackle Clankbuster

[no-relation.livejournal.com]

At the end of my Elementary Modern Physics (i.e. how we got from Newton to Einstein) class in college, the professor asked each of us what we learned that semester. I said, "Nobody knows anything." He didn't appreciate that. Didn't quite go so far as to say that we know everything, though.

[petie-s.livejournal.com]

And then, we find out why it happens. But there's magic beyond that.

[rabbi-thor.livejournal.com]

Wow...if you stare at that long enough, you can see:

-A female leg
-A distended nipple
-The profile of Abraham Lincoln

I feel special...

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Abraham Lincoln?

Now I'm having flashbacks to Gremlins 2.

[wednesday]

I'm afraid I thought it was tentacle monsters.

I have no soul.

[larksilver.livejournal.com]

Of course you do! It's just been invaded by anime! Do we need an intervention? An animecism? hehe

[nous-athanatos.livejournal.com]

Isn't that glow awfully close to the Arabian Peninsula and the lost city of Tannis? I hope this has nothing to do with Abdul Alhazrad.

[ashears.livejournal.com]

"They" are wrong or on thin ice about so many things it's silly.

And there's a kind of magic in the way all that wacky science works, anyway. ;)

[larksilver.livejournal.com]

Well said.

Even though they know the mechanisms (or think they do) of how it happens, they still don't really know why it happens at those times, in those places. The magic isn't in the how, anyway, nor even in the why. It's in the way somethin' like this makes us feel. "They" can go to poopsville.