tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post3905344539152503537..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Saturday Studiestruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-54641734526696645142009-05-03T15:17:00.000-07:002009-05-03T15:17:00.000-07:00A reprise of zeppelins would be a poor commercial ...A reprise of zeppelins would be a poor commercial idea. But to have thought of them, and then to follow through and make them and make them fly, that's worthy of Man. No, they didn't fly in the long run, but to reach out and try the impossible and find it is possible after all; and to find out the possible isn't as good as one could have expected and hoped; and to try again in some other imaginative and daring way is Human beauty writ large across the sky, and eventually, written in stone. <br /><br />Excelsior!Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-39876304296477610652009-05-03T07:03:00.000-07:002009-05-03T07:03:00.000-07:00Zeppelins are fascinating for being symbols of a f...Zeppelins are fascinating for being symbols of a future that never came. Everybody "knew" that the airship was the next step up from the sea-going passenger ship, until one night in Lakehurst New Jersey showed everyone that it wouldn't be. <br /><br />Goes to show how sometimes no one can <I>know</I> the future, whether it's transportation... or the weather, since it didn't rain on me yesterday after all.Charles Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18168475254263681673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-59249287218456368752009-05-02T12:28:00.000-07:002009-05-02T12:28:00.000-07:00The Marine Building again! Looking at the zepplin ...The Marine Building again! Looking at the zepplin is a treat. The zepplin is one of those transitory feats of engineering genius and aesthetic wonder that might have been the acme if only for a day but now lives with us only on a lintel and in the mind. An odd and graceful step of the mind that didn't lead where the rest would go. Lovely in itself. "How beauteous mankind is!"Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-31098311788417300062009-05-02T09:57:00.000-07:002009-05-02T09:57:00.000-07:00p.s. you've been giving us some good links the las...p.s. you've been giving us some good links the last week or so; hope to see more,truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-52025162012914973612009-05-02T09:56:00.000-07:002009-05-02T09:56:00.000-07:00It's kind of amazing that people can still sell Ri...It's kind of amazing that people can still sell Ripper books in this day and age. Should we really trust the "handwriting expert" not to do what the sellers of print allege in regards to the perennial corruption of powerful MSM?<br /><br />But in any case, it's instructive that people remain more interested in grizzly stories of murder than in precise understanding of numbers. Human reality is built around the imperative to avoid human on human violence, a fear we can never fully escape or forget; but this reality works best when we have mediated it so well that we don't have to think too often of it and can make do with distant stories. One consequences is that too many want to trust the man to know what a trillion is, until they find out his "expert" mediation can't save them this time, not that in forever kicking the can down the road of more and more debt he ever really could...truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com