Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for January 17, 2014
Transcript:
When I heard the learn'd astronomer, when the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me. When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them. When I, sitting, heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room. How soon unaccountable.... I became tired and sick. Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself in the mystical moist night-air. And from time to time... look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. -Walt Whitman
Ida No almost 11 years ago
Walt was a much better animator than he was an astronomer…
j2p2 almost 11 years ago
Though I always found that loafing and inviting my soul was very animating…wish I had time for it now…
Vet Premium Member almost 11 years ago
May times the beauty of something is that it is just what it is.So just take it for that and enjoy.
emptc12 almost 11 years ago
ossiningaling almost 11 years ago
Reminds me of “Dead Poets Society” and the formula for how to measure if a poem is good or not.
Old Man River almost 11 years ago
I’m betting this was before light pollution. I Haven’t seen the milky way since I was a young’un
lisapaloma13 almost 11 years ago
The unfamiliarity of the average person with the night sky and the unfamiliarity of the average person with Walt Whitman are both disturbing.
ART Thompson Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I’m with you Lisa. Most people never look up even.
Ida No almost 11 years ago
You mean Whitman couldn’t animate?
LittleCatFeet almost 11 years ago
@Three Steps: absolutely, in a different sense. I have both read Whitman and dabbled in animation myself, and I think the art would have bored him, actually. It takes a certain mindset.I look at the night sky almost every evening. I live in a rural area, so an arm of the Milky Way is very visible over my front yard at certain times of the year.