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adampolselli: The most instructive way I know to express this cosmic chronology is to imagine the fifteen-billion-year lifetime of the universe (or at least its present incarnation since the Big Bang) compressed into the span of a single year. [...] The ... Quote 2 months, 4 weeks ago for The Dragons of Eden

adampolselli: One of my favorite books. Comment 2 months, 4 weeks ago for The Time Machine

adampolselli: The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I . . ." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal ... Quote 4 months, 1 week ago for The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

adampolselli: Book got drenched when I was on the beach in Nice, France. The pages are so stiff it's almost difficult to read now. Note 4 months, 1 week ago for Revolution!

adampolselli: "Pensée" All of Paris must have been away on holiday when Pascal said that men are not happy because they are incapable of staying in their rooms. It is the kind of thought that belongs in a room, sealed off ... Quote 4 months, 1 week ago for Questions About Angels

adampolselli: From the poem "Obituaries": Here is where the final cards are shown, the age, the cause, the plaque of deeds, and sometimes an odd scrap of news-- that she collected sugar bowls, that he played solitaire without any clothes. And ... Quote 4 months, 1 week ago for Nine Horses

adampolselli: Billy Collins is one my favorite contemporary poets. He's brilliant at using ordinary words to describe everyday situations in a way that makes them seem far from normal. Comment 4 months, 1 week ago for Picnic, Lightning

adampolselli: Four of my photographs were published in this book. Comment 4 months, 1 week ago for 28mm.Org