#williammckibben — Public Fediverse posts
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> We have accepted the idea that continents can drift in the course of aeons, or that continents can die in a nuclear second. But normal time seems to us immune from such huge changes. It isn’t, though...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/09/11/the-end-of-nature
#EndOfNature with #WilliamMcKibben #BillMcKibben has me thinking of William Empson's discussion of a TaoChien poem and how we have two incompatible ways: one instant of pain or pleasure or one lifetime of 70 years...