look, you're talking to somebody who still sits in awe of planes flying out over sf bay. how in the hell do those things do that? i get to look out from alameda on good air, clear days & see the bay bridge &, if it's a REALLY clear day, the golden gate bridge. how the hell do those things do that? i may be really stupid but i think modern plumbing is a marvel & i suspect most of us really take for granted things that are actually quite astonishing in the world of man.
so when i saw this picture in the nyt magazine today, it made me think again of how little attention we pay to the simple things(like driving on a road)in our lives & what clever creatures we can be to create such a thing of beauty & utility. & yet:
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-and yet..."
& yet, there's dogfighting rings & guantanamo & child killers & rapists & all the other dreary but awful evils in the world of man. i will say that when i see those planes out over sf bay, i do forget about the other stuff, if only for a second or two.
hamlet & rosencrantz are both right. what a world we live in.
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