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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke

collection inspired by sharks 🦈

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall is a hyper-intellectual thriller that twists not just plot, but the nature of reality. As soon as you believe you’ve got this story figured out, it reframes itself, making you think even as it makes you want to find out what happens next. Remember that moment in The Matrix when Neo discovers he’s living in a... See more

Eliot Peper • The Raw Shark Texts

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

Roger's Bacon • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead

Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.

Steven Rinella • Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

Notice that before the creation of light, the seas were already there. The Iliad, too, calls Oceanus the father of the gods. The idea may be even older and may have originated prior to the separation of Eurasian and American peoples. Consider the first verse of the Navajo creation myth: “The One is called ‘Water Everywhere.’

Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science

The evolution of sharks

Amie Pearce beachedcommunity.substack.com

In China the symbol in the center is also known as Tai Chi, the symbol for the two fundamental principles, the positive and the negative, the yang and the yin that are held to lie at the root of all phenomena in the world. The Chinese character for the word yang looks like a fish; it represents the light side, and means the southern or bright side

Alan Watts • What Is Tao?

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Amie Pearce • The longevity of the Greenland shark

Amie Pearce • Meet the Basking Shark

If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.