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Old 05-08-2008 | 09:39 PM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
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Originally Posted by Cubdriver
I always wondered what it would be like to be flying all day looking at this kind of thing. Awe-inspiring probably, but also desolate, beautiful, contemplative, a bit cosmic, and perhaps unnerving. It would seem to absorb a lot of creative energy to look at views like these more than a few minutes at a time. The visual fabric of ordinary life is predictable, but nothing in this is so structured. It adheres to a mysterious pattern involving huge amounts of gravity, heat, mass, light, and space and has a look entirely of its own.

One of the best critiques I have ever seen. You might want to read this sometime: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/b...h/ba980630.htm
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