THE GOSPEL OF THE PROPHYLACTIC (written 12/01/2010) woke up just now to a shiver the curtain in my bedroom flapping in the wind of a damp day old man winter has been fighting with the atmosphere lately struggling to force upon the world his bitter ways its the first day of december a day that…
“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very…
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” —Carl Sagan, 1990