Night 17
SCIENCE: The natural world as laboratory and temple
Readings
- poem Wild Geese Read at Poetry Foundation →
- essay The Lives of a Cell Read at Google search →
- story To Build a Fire Read at State Dept (PDF) →
Tonight the natural world shows up as both laboratory and cathedral. Oliver tells you that you don't have to be good -- you just have to pay attention to the wild geese. Thomas looks through a microscope and finds something that sounds like religion. London drops a man into seventy-five-below-zero cold and lets the laws of physics take their course. The triangle here is between awe, analysis, and indifference -- each writer takes a different corner.
Journal entry coming soon.