“Without exercising our conscious mind, we can respond fully to things that come into the orbit of our ken. With conceptual boundaries removed, our bosom is thus open, unblocked, a center of no circumference into which and across which a million things will regain their free flow and activity.”
Yip, Wai-lim. Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. p. 73.
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University of California Press
“Taiyang Shen's con-trail wafted in the chilly Gobi sky. The ship, no longer visible to the naked eye, pressed onward toward orbit. Its deafening roar dwindled to a distant rumbling thunder.”
Weir, Andy. The Martian. New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. p. 296.
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Random House
“In the bullfight, the Duende achieves his most impressive advantage, for he must fight then with death who can destroy him, on one hand, and with geometry, with measure, the fundamental basis of the bullfight, on the other.
The bull has his orbit, and the bullfighter has his, and between orbit and orbit is the point of risk where falls the vertex of the terrible byplay.”
Lorca, Federico García. “The Duende.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 50. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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University of California Press
“The atom is neither in its outer orbit nor in its inner orbit, and the photon is neither there in the field travelling away from the atom with the speed of light, nor absent.”
Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010. p. 129.
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Oxford University Press