re: #733 Slumbering Behemoth
Day in and day out, the hammer relentlessly, furiously assails the anvil. Yet the result is always the same, it is the anvil that cracks the hammer.
/has nothing to do with your post, just a goofy thing I like to throw out now and again.
I;m trying to remember a quote something like “The rock breaks the waves, the waves break the rock”. It wasn’t in this after all:
Natural Science — RUSH*
(Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson)
I. tide pools
When the ebbing tide retreats
Along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tidal pools
In a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet
A complete societyA simple kind mirror
To reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures
Chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools
They soon forget about the sea…Wheels within wheels
In a spiral array
A pattern so grand
And complex
Time after time
We lose sight of the way
Our causes cant see
Their effectsIi. hyperspace
A quantum leap forward
In time and in space
The universe learned to expandThe mess and the magic
Triumphant and tragic
A mechanized world, out of handComputerized clinic
For superior cynics
Who dance to a synthetic bandIn their own image
Their world is fashioned —-
No wonder they dont understandWheels within wheels
In a spiral array
A pattern so grand
And complex
Time after time
We lose sight of the way
Our causes cant see
Their effectsIii. permanent waves
Science, like nature
Must also be tamed
With a view towards its preservation
Given the same
State of integrity
It will surely serve us wellArt as expression —-
Not as market campaigns
Will still capture our imaginations
Given the same
State of integrity
It will surely help us alongThe most endangered species —-
The honest man
Will still survive annihilation
Forming a world —-
State of integrity
Sensitive, open, and strongWave after wave
Will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide
Will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on
As it was…
* How perverse to see RUSH v Rush.