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...Sammler's Planet, Bellow...
Exactly what caused that chemical concatenation has long been the subject of lively scientific debate. Was the crucial reaction powered by intense ultraviolet radiation from the sun? By bolts of lightning in the primeval skies? Or by the searing heat of volcanic eruptions on the surface of the young planet? Researchers have found that amino acids can be produced in laboratory simulations of each of those conditions. Now a team of investigators at Cornell University has proposed that another natural phenomenon might have played a role. The catalyst of genesis, they say, could have been the shock waves of thunderclaps...
...purity of language. And this purity resides in poetic symbol. The symbol, as the animating, penetrating, harmonizing power of poetry, is the descendant of myth and metaphor, as the highest articulation of the imagination. The Greek gods, more generally man's native yearnings to articulate his life and planet, to keep them gentle, become our modern power of symbolization. Coleridge said that the poet brings the whole soul of man into activity, in a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order. Shelley, whom I quote unblushingly, wrote that all great poets are revolutionaries who "unveil...
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...Sammler's Planet, Bellow...