Orts #935

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the word "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this."
     -- “Ray Brinkman” to “Dorothy Cazaly” in The Overstory, by Richard Powers

 

A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel—root and stem—in great U-turns until it rights itself. But a human child can know it’s pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.

    — Richard Powers, in The Overstory, chapter “Adam Appich”

 

"I was also raised to believe that we were eventually going to live on Venus."
life in the Lyman family 
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a remarkable temple in China . . . twelve spectacular photos
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