My first blog post in this blog was on Monday, April 9, 2007. That was four years, 10 months, and 15 days ago. 1,782 days. I had not yet met my Second. But almost.
What will I do with the next 1,700?
(It only takes 274 to make a human)
Who was the first man who questioned the philosophers and wondered how it was and through what true medium the sensations and images truly came to our brains?
And who realized that they are transmitted and carried through mediators, one such being light, and we have evolved light-catchers and processors to absorb the different flavors, colors, and varieties of light and transform them into images —
and who then realized that since this image is not from out there, but rather, created in here, all men live truly in the Dark.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
– Omar Khayyám (translation by Edward Fitzgerald).
The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of paraheliotropic trees 