Rhyme Scheme
"The introduction of Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)
has dramatically changed the methods
astronomers use to view objects."
— Santa Barbara Instrument Group, Inc.
"They should have sent a poet."
— Jodie Foster in the film version
of Carl Sagan's Contact
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"Say 'Abba,' Abba! CCD! — Rhyme |
On the question of what reality is:
"Under what circumstances do we think things are
real? ….
This question speaks to a small, manageable problem
having to do with the camera and not
what it is the camera takes pictures of."
— Erving Goffman,
Frame Analysis, An Essay on
the Organization of Experience,
Harper & Row, 1974, p. 2
Is existence real?
Comment by oOMisfitOo — Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 7:15 pm
Two relevant quotes:
From Joan Didion in The Last Thing He Wanted:
”The most terrifying verse I know: Merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.”
On the other hand, this very verse is the recurrent theme of Cosmic Banditos, which one reader calls “perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.”
Comment by m759 — Sunday, December 15, 2002 @ 1:58 am