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You will find more truth in the guts of nature, not on the tongues of men.
Dying Stars and Dying Lions speak a much more profound language than the self-aggrandizement of human sounds.
"The illusion that exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."
Aleksandr Pushkin
Ultimately, the star swells to a huge size, its radius twice the distance between the Earth to the sun. This stage is called the red giant phase.
As it dies, the star blows most of its matter out into space, forming an expanding shell of gas. What remains of the star is a white dwarf.
In its death throes, the sunlike star destroys its planets.
What does death mean, for the sun? It means our sun will run out of fuel in its interior. It’ll cease the internal thermonuclear reactions that enable stars to shine. It’ll swell into a red giant, whose outer layers will engulf Mercury and Venus and likely reach the Earth. Life on Earth will end.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
Martin Buber
“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive...The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings."
Milan Kundera
“Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were the works of men but the earth before and after those cities, outside and beneath and around them, was the dream of a sleeping leviathan--it was god sleeping there and dreaming, the same god that was time and transfiguration. From whatever dreamed the dream at the source, atom or energy, flowed all the miracles of evolution--tiger, tiger burning bright, the massive whales in the deep, luminescent specters in their mystery. The pearls that were their eyes, their tongues that were wet leaves, their bodies that were the bodies of the fantastic.
Spectacular bestiaries of heaven, the limbs and tails of the gentle and the fearsome, silent or raging at will . . . they could never be known in every detail and they never should be.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream
You will find more truth in the guts of nature, not on the tongues of men.
Dying Stars and Dying Lions speak a much more profound language than the self-aggrandizement of human sounds.
"The illusion that exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."
Aleksandr Pushkin
Ultimately, the star swells to a huge size, its radius twice the distance between the Earth to the sun. This stage is called the red giant phase.
As it dies, the star blows most of its matter out into space, forming an expanding shell of gas. What remains of the star is a white dwarf.
In its death throes, the sunlike star destroys its planets.
What does death mean, for the sun? It means our sun will run out of fuel in its interior. It’ll cease the internal thermonuclear reactions that enable stars to shine. It’ll swell into a red giant, whose outer layers will engulf Mercury and Venus and likely reach the Earth. Life on Earth will end.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
Martin Buber
“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive...The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings."
Milan Kundera
“Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were the works of men but the earth before and after those cities, outside and beneath and around them, was the dream of a sleeping leviathan--it was god sleeping there and dreaming, the same god that was time and transfiguration. From whatever dreamed the dream at the source, atom or energy, flowed all the miracles of evolution--tiger, tiger burning bright, the massive whales in the deep, luminescent specters in their mystery. The pearls that were their eyes, their tongues that were wet leaves, their bodies that were the bodies of the fantastic.
Spectacular bestiaries of heaven, the limbs and tails of the gentle and the fearsome, silent or raging at will . . . they could never be known in every detail and they never should be.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream
