—The Washington PostThis part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was there.
This part doesn’t: Within moments, three black sport-utility vehicles drove up, a half-dozen men in suits jumped out and one said, “You just hit our line.”
—The moon shoot: film of Apollo mission on show again after 35 years in the can | Film | The GuardianIn one, “little old grandmothers” are using foot-pedal sewing machines for the fine stitching of the spacesuits. “[They were] hoping that it was their pair of gloves that the astronaut had on and it was just so charming,” he said. “They were using machines that had been used since 1900 to stitch together these suits with which men were going to go into space.
—This Is Just To Say - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & MoreThis Is Just To Say
by William Carlos WilliamsI have eaten
the plums
that were in
the iceboxand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastForgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
From ancient Egypt to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, grimoires - books of magic spells - have exerted a huge influence on religion and science. Owen Davies picks his top 10, and yes, HP Lovecraft makes the cut
Dorfdisco: Occult ideas seem to run through your work, clearly they continue to be important to you…….
J.C : Yes. I started out under the wings of the Golden Dawn, with Paul, then we went our separate ways and I went through the six stages of Magik, from Shamanism to Witchcraft, to Hermeticism, to Rosicrucianism and the from Rosicrucianism to Illuminism and from there to Chaos Magik, its latest incarnation. Different parts of me got stuck at different stages of this evolution of the magical tradition. Then my brother, who is one of the world’s leading physicists, started to work on superconductors and we kind of came together. I realised that the physicists were using their own form of Jungian archetypes – that we were essentially using the same kind of language, in terms of Quantum Mechanics.