“Beauty is information” — Yuri Lotman
WALL OF WATER - A detail of a photo by Robert Scoble. Santa Cruz surfer riding the waves.
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“Quick, define intelligence. If you find your way out of a labyrinth, do you possess intelligence?
Define power. Reflect the sky above you, break a stone in half, carry an aircraft carrier, hover in high altitude.
Water does it all.”
— The Book of W
“And the rainbow stood on the earth. She knew that the sordid people who crept hard-scaled and separate on the face of the world’s corruption were living still, that the rainbow was arched in their blood and would quiver to life in their spirit, that they would cast off their horny covering of disintegration, that new, clean, naked bodies would issue to a new germination, to a new growth, rising to the light and the wind and the clean rain of heaven. She saw in the rainbow the earth’s new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven.” — The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
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“Too true, too many tears! Dawns of heartbreak.
Each moon is cruel, and every sun bitter:
I’m swollen with harsh love’s drunken torpor.
O let my keel burst! Let me go to the sea!”
— The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud