Daniel Ginsburg
@dginsburg
Daniel Ginsburg
@dginsburg
For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? - Thomas Hobbes
the phantom limb was already there but revealed by the amputation
Oliver Sacks
There is no prominent character in all the annals of sacred or profane history whose prototype we cannot find in the half-fictitious and half-real traditions of bygone religions and mythologies. As the star, glimmering at an immeasurable distance above our heads, in the boundless immensity of the sky, reflects itself in the smooth waters of a lake,
... See moreIf a man is crossing a river And an empty boat collides with his own skiff, Even though he be a bad-tempered man He will not become very angry. But if he [thinks he] sees a man in the boat, He will shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, And yet again, and begin cursing. And all because [he thinks] there is
... See morekind of like the holistic version of walking as a street photographer, or perhaps flaneurism, it is taking a moment to watch, be, and notice the things, images, and phrases that feel like poetry in any given moment