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“and then it was
There interposed a Fly
With Blueuncertain stumbling Buzz
Between the lightand me
And then the Windows failedand then
I could not see to see”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
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