Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Neurons in the brain work only insofar as they are connected, and trains move only when the tracks are laid down. (Well they could move if the tracks aren't laid down, but it'd be detrimental for the train to say the least.) Wherever people settle and concentrate enough of their efforts the anatomy of paths becomes more important than the pure geometry of distances.

Well, here we are. I can come to this blog a reader, click on my automatically signed-in account name and add on to it. (It probably says something about my net literacy to notice such things, come think of it...) Within human scales distance takes on enough definitions and methods to mean quite little. In this light there is probably something to be said about the sobering effect of looking at clear night skies, the drawing of real, very long straight lines of light from some star to our eyes.

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