note to self

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from Ideas of Space

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My mathematics is helpless against the sea.

–Norman Lock

 more here

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ours is

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All passes and all remains,
and ours is to pass by,
to pass by making roads,
roads over the sea.

–Antonio Machado

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oh well,

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This Is Water

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water, the great mystery

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Nothing in the world,

Is as yielding and receptive as water;

Yet in attacking the firm and inflexible,

Nothing triumphs so well.

Because of what it is not, 

This becomes easy.

The receptive triumphs over the inflexible;

The yielding triumphs over the rigid.

–Lao Tzu

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