"One of the most fascinating recent areas of research
is known as plasticity, which has shown that some
organisms have the potential to adapt more rapidly
and more radically than was once thought.
Descriptions of plasticity are startling, bringing to mind
the kinds of wild transformations you might expect to find
in comic books and science fiction movies."
— "Do we need a new theory of evolution?,"
The Guardian, June 28, 2022, by Stephen Buranyi
“… the true sense of
‘Let be be the finale of seem’
is
‘let being become the conclusion or denouement of appearing to be’….”
— Wallace Stevens, letter to Henry Church, June 1, 1939
Update of 6:21 PM ET:
Related remark from The New York Times today —
“In a 2000 interview with the newspaper Libération ,
Mr. Dupond set forth his credo as an artist:
‘To please, seduce, divert, enchant;
I feel that I have only ever lived for this.’”
“datePublished”:”2021-03-13T17:02:01.000Z”,
“headline”:”Patrick Dupond, French Ballet Virtuoso, Dies at 61″
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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