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Even in the simplest organisms, the protoplasm seems to have a goal; it knows what it wants to do. Starting with the single small blob in a fertilized egg cell, it inexorably grows to a special form-frog, pine tree or man. Inert, unorganized matter flows into the growing organism and is at once transformed by the touch of its life. It becomes alive; it creeps or flies or sings or loves. When matter is touched by man's protoplasm, the kind with the highest purpose, it becomes extremely complicated, with thoughts and aspirations that defy scientific pinpointing...
...Second Law of Thermodynamics, generally credited to German Physicist Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius (1822-88), teaches in its simplest form that heat of its own accord will always flow from higher to lower temperature...
...shave his well-groomed head and don the rough cowl of a Benedictine monk, and the Marquise will forsake her finery for the simple habit of the Little Sisters of the Ascension. In a monastery in central France, he will till the land with his brother monks, eat the simplest of foods, rise at night to chant the office. She will nurse the sick and aid the poor in parts of Paris where on past visits her limousine never brought her. They will never see each other again...
...energy is such that even though he rewrites even the simplest potboiler five times and a new poem as many as 35, he still finds time to tutor his children, spar with a host of enemy pundits, work for twelve hours at a stretch if he has to. At the moment, Graves has on hand three projects, any one of which would be enough to tax the average writer: a novel about George Sand's love affair with Chopin; a translation of Lucan's History of the Civil War (between Caesar and Pompey): a translation of Roman Historian...
...over. So did his mother's gentle "Come along" when the nurse summoned them. So did his attempts to talk. He was a victim of the athetoid type of cerebral palsy, marked by almost continual jerky movements that are worsened whenever the victim tries to execute the simplest task. (In the spastic type, equally common, any effort results in slow, jerky movements...