The Crime Machine #1 (February 1971) Cover by Tom Palmer
We’re still always finding out new things even about creatures we’ve been studying for generations and one of those things is that when tardigrade go into their stasis they’ve got unique proteins that basically crystallize into glass.
Saint Catherine’s Monastery
The charnel house at Saint Catherine’s Monastery, or Santa Katarina, a Greek Orthodox monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, 1967. When monks die they are buried for a few years then dug up and their bones put in the charnel house. The area is considered too rocky for a permanent grave.
It is imagination which enlarges the bounds of possibility for us, whether for good or ill, and therefore stimulates and feeds desires by the hope of satisfying them. But the object which seemed within our grasp flies quicker than we can follow; when we think we have grasped it, it transforms itself and is again far ahead of us. We no longer perceive the country we have traversed, and we think nothing of it; that which lies before us becomes vaster and stretches still before us. Thus we exhaust our strength, yet never reach our goal, and the nearer we are to pleasure, the further we are from happiness.
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| — | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (via philosophybits) |
