Playing with MATLAB! Thanks to my brother for the idea.
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Full poem goes like this:
Tom O’Roughley
‘THOUGH logic choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy,’
Or so did Tom O’Roughley say
That saw the surges running by,
‘And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey.‘If little planned is little sinned
But little need the grave distress.
What’s dying but a second wind?
How but in zigzag wantonness
Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?’
Or something of that sort he said,
‘And if my dearest friend were dead
I’d dance a measure on his grave.’~ William Butler Yeats
The poem (without the fancy text) is here:
Blissful Longing
Tell nobody except the wise,
Because the mob is immediately scornful;
I wish to praise that element of life
Which longs for a fiery death.In that coolness of nights of love
Which begat you, where you begat,
An unfamiliar sensation comes over you
When the silent taper shines.No longer do you remain embraced
By the shadow of the darkness,
But a new desire draws you
Upward to a higher form of mating.No degree of distance makes you doubtful;
You fly over and fall under a spell,
And, at last, lusting for the light,
Like a moth you are burned to death.And so long as you don’t have it,
This “Die and be transformed!,”
You will only be a gloomy guest
On the dark earth.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A dream within a dream, a comic within a comic!
This is me pretty much every year once Nanowrimo comes around.
Oh, how I love the holidays!
Take revenge on Moth… eat a turkey today!
Part of me wants to read this book. The other part read the summary on Wikipedia and is appalled by the dismal ending…
I do this all the time, except frequently I’ll relate dreams that make people stare at me. For some reason, remembering about that time where I transported across space and time boundaries by eating at fast food restaurants isn’t realistic enough.
Technically, it would be impossible for moths or butterflies to blink, considering that they have two compound eyes, and no eyelids.
For those who are wondering, an insect’s view of the world would be vastly different from ours. Everything would be rounded, for instance. Also, they would be able to “see” with less blind spots than us. They are especially good at detecting movement.
The popular belief is that insects with compound eyes would see tons of little pictures, almost as if we were looking through multiple telescopes at the same time. However, this isn’t quite true. While they do see hundreds of tiny pictures at the same time, their eyes would have to be 11 meters across the diameter to see at our resolution. That would be a pretty ridiculous-looking insect! Anyway, the images they see are much tinier than ours….and that is your insect trivia of the day!
