The Propagational Library (Introduction): The Librarian
[Image: The Beginning of Everything: Remembering Distance (oil on linen, 90 x 180 cm, 2010), by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox] That’s what it said (on what would have been the little placard on what would...
View ArticleMore Than Enough Room
[Image: postcard, “The Big Shot” (the Big Room, Carlsbad Caverns, NM). For more information, see the note at the bottom of this post.] From whiskey river: Freedom means being able to choose how we...
View ArticleYou Are (Barely) Here
Sometimes when working on the Saturday Propagational Library serial I get a little overwhelmed thinking about the distances and time scales involved. While I try to keep things roughly “factual” — or...
View ArticleTo Be, Not to Be, or Barely to Be?
[Image: “unbeing dead isn’t being alive,” by Nicole Pierce on Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons license.) The title of this image alludes, apparently, to a quotation by E.E. Cummings — it’s...
View ArticleAn Infinity of Reflexive Trajectories
[Image (courtesy of Wikipedia): one of numerous graphic representations of a mathematical (and perhaps physical) space called a 3-torus (also three-torus, or triple torus). For more information, see...
View ArticleAll of a Piece, a Piece of All
[Image: “Broken promises Project 365(3),” by Keith Williamson (user “elwillo”) on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons license.] From whiskey river: All good things are one thing. Sunsets, schools of...
View ArticleForever Beginning
[Image: “Âmes entrelacés par la lumière,” by user Viewminder on Flickr.com. (Used here under a Creative Commons license.) Translation, per Google Translate: Souls intertwined by light.] From whiskey...
View ArticleSomething Beyond
[Image: “beyond, the river,” by a photographer whose name displays simply as “susan” (her full account name, though, is “bunchadogs & susan”). I found it on Flickr, of course, and use it here...
View ArticleDiscrete Infinities
[Image: “Double Self-Portrait With Old Man,” by Tom Waterhouse — an old favorite. Found on Flickr, and used here under a Creative Commons license. (Thank you!)] From whiskey river: Among the...
View ArticleVisualizing the Soul of the Night
[Image: “Termination Shock: The Ends of Everythings,” by artist Andy Gracie. Found it on Flickr, where it was posted in the Ars Electronica photostream, and use it here under a Creative Commons...
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