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...spirit Ephraim brings his pupils good news about the cosmic dance of souls, though he warns that if the world is destroyed, heaven would vanish. The same Keatsian reverence for earthly pleasures pervades Merrill's poem. Words are to be cherished because they open magic casements...
...other people put this together on a sort of alarm clock principle. This part"--he indicates the stack of trays--"is a Nova 1200 computer. But this part"--he waves at the TV-typewriter hookup--we did" Arny elaborates on the advantages of the screen system, which is labelled "Cosmic Investigations...
...variations. "There is always the final escape--you can send yourself into Hyperspace." Arny's ship disappears in a flash of light. "But you don't know if you'll come back", he adds. "And if you do, it'll be in a totally random spot." Space War's cosmic overtones of that other world are only less intriguing than the mechanics of the game itself...
...animals and plants with periods when the earth's magnetic field was reversing. At some point during the reversal, the field virtually disappears, allowing solar particles that are normally deflected by the magnetic field to strike the earth. Some scientists have suggested that during these periods high-energy cosmic rays and particles from solar flares may have killed off entire species and caused extensive mutations in others...
...process, not as a sight for a city-dwelling impressionist on an outing. Millet's The Plain of Chailly, 1862, was unlike virtually every previous landscape in Western art. It is neither a bird's-eye "world view" in the fashion of Bruegel nor a meditation on cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially, it is not a vision of property, such as Rubens painted. What it offers is a numbing pressure of material substance. The plain stretches away under the winter sky, its bleak horizontality interrupted only by crows, harrow and a plow. Nothing...