Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for January 17, 2014

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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