"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Serpent's Egg - Prologue
Serpent's Egg - A Science Fiction Mini-Miniseries in Seven Parts
Welcome to the world of Serpent's Egg, a Science Fiction fable set in today's time and your backyard. The Prologue picks up the story in progress as the Captain returns to Earth and attempts to activate a machine he has been told to assemble that will cure many of humanity's woes...but will it? And will he be able to do so? (All of the loose ends and backstory will be covered in the next six installments, so stay tuned!)
Smoking Kills Police in New York, N.Y., were puzzled as to why a man would leap to his death from a high-rise building. Ian Honeycutt, 28, of Glenview, Ill., was visiting family. He was not despondent and left no suicide note. When investigators talked to the family, they figured it out. His aunt didn’t want him smoking in her 9th-floor apartment, so Honeycutt either leaned out a window or was sitting on its sill. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph sent the “bone-thin” man sailing, police say. “The guy’s 90 pounds soaking wet,” a police spokesman said. The death was ruled an accident. (New York Daily News) ...That’s what Big Tobacco wants you to believe, anyway. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
