Skael. Na zdorovye.

(Russian) wish you health

After all, one century's magic, another century's science. They thought Columbus was a nut job, right? Pasteur? Copernicus?

Aristarchus long before that.

How can I have knowledgeable recall if I didn't have knowledge? It is all retrospective. All I can do is integrate my recollections with modern findings.

Like Hegal.. logic from absurd premises.

We talked about capturing nature in art. Turner, Cezanne, Pissarro...

Oh the Nolde landscapes

Not in Van Gough's time. He would have loved them though.

Thus the old saying, "You can't go home again".

Living 14,000 years didnt make me a genius. I just had time.

Time. We can't see it. We can't hear it. We can't weigh it. We can't measure it in a laboratory. It's a subjective sense of becoming what we are instead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond.

The hopis see time as a landscape. Existing before and behind us. And we move through it, slice by slice.

As laplace said, "I have no need of that hypothesis"

I am what I am becoming.

Do you know Voltaire was the first to suggest that the universe was created by a gigantic explosion?

I think Paul would agree.

And then Goethe was the first to suggest that spiral nebulae were swirlling masses of stars. We now call them galaxies. It is kind of funny how often new concepts of science find their first tentative forms of expression in the arts.

So did Beethoven do physics on the side?