May 28, 2006

• Time Travel

  “Since thirty mornings
      are required to make
  A day of which we say,
      this is the day
  That we desire, a day of
      blank, blue wheels,

  Involving the four corners
      of the sky,
  Lapised and lacqued
      and freely emeraldine
  In the space it fills,
      the silent motioner

  There, of clear, revolving
      crystalline;
  Since thirty summers
     are needed for a year
  And thirty years,
     in the galaxies of birth,

  Are time for counting
     and remembering….”

  – Wallace Stevens,
     “Of Ideal Time and Choice,”
     in The Necessary Angel, 1951

  “When it’s time to railroad,
    people start railroading.”

  – Robert A. Heinlein in
     The Door into Summer, 1957

  “Everybody’s doin’
   a brand new dance now…”

  – Kylie Minogue, 1987-88

  Happy birthday, Kylie.

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