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16 - Turing's sexual pleasure in mathematics [Hodges, Turing, p. 127]
20 - young children experience their effectiveness through creating chaos out of order
21 - a six-week-old with a sucking mechanism to drive a projector
37 - "You can't imagine," he says, "the silent fun I have at dinner parties while eating my food and dissecting a beautiful muscle. How I enjoy the spinalis dorsis -- largely constituting a lamb chop."
100 - "Levi-Strauss also discovered in old navigation treatises that European sailors were at one time perfectly able to discern Venus in daylight."
151 - American newness -- "when no man shall build his house for posterity" (in Hawthorne)

Grudin, Time and the Art of Living (http://www.thescreamonline.com/essays/essays2-4/time.html)

The Hydrological Cycle and the Wisdom of God

Heschong, Thermal Delight in Architecture

Date: 2008-06-26 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
Huh. This looks really interesting; I just placed it on hold at SPL, thanks for the rec!

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