All, I was reading a short review of Richard Holme's new book, Age of Wonder, in Newsweek, and came across this referring to the "golden age" of scientific innovation (Issue August 3).
"Such fraternization between poets and scientists wasn't uncommon. Poetry and science weren't wholly separate yet: they were seen as complimentary ways of piercing the veil of everyday phenomena." In describing the effects (a Copernican revolution of sorts, as Pirsig would likely call it) of aerial ballooning on how people conceptualized the Earth, the reviewer writes, "The early aeronauts suddenly saw the earth as a giant organism, mysteriously patterned and unfolding, like a living creature." Poets wrote about the earth using an imagination that would end in the fruition of placing humans in space. "For the time being," the reviewer wrote, "it was left to the poets to go where the earthbound scientists could not." Thought some would find this interesting. Arlo Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
