💬📚 “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an intuitive feeling for the limits of typicality.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

💬📚 “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is limited by her senses.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Good to remember about all research.

💬📚 “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Selected quotes:

Eidolons

We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,
But really build eidolons.

To the States

…Resist much, obey little

Thou Reader

Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants.

Selected quotes:

6:45 pm

…God, it’s pretty.

But what does any of it mean?

A Unified Theory

You think, what if I am stuck like this? What if

I never change? So what.

Never change.

Moments are not for revision—

if they are lived honestly, they are open to one interpretation.
only. They make you like a child.

Of course that’s what they make.

📚💬 “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth in themselves.” - Ed Yong, An Immense World

📚💬 “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales 📚

Want to read: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris 📚

📚 In 2008, 8 years before my kid was born, I replied to a Slate article that asked, “do you really want the Hulk teaching your kid to read?” with a resounding “Yes but Spider-Man or the X-Men would be better.” I stand by my earlier sentiment.