![]() ![]() ![]() Lower down, there is simply less time than at altitude.Ĭarlo Rovelli. He has had less time to do things, his plants have grown less, his thoughts have had less time to unfold. They meet up again years later: the one who has stayed down has lived less, aged less, the mechanism of his cuckoo clock has oscillated fewer times. Two friends separate, with one of them living in the plains and the other going to live in the mountains. It is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower. This slowing down can be detected between levels just a few centimetres apart: a clock placed on the floor runs a little more slowly than one on a table. The difference is small but can be measured with precision timepieces that can be bought today for a few thousand pounds. ![]() Let’s begin with a simple fact: time passes faster in the mountains than it does at sea level. The sun seems to revolve in the sky when it is really we who are spinning. The Earth appears to be flat but is in fact spherical. Reality is often very different from what it seems. ![]()
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Why I needed to live on campus and find myself a tutor.įunny that my new roommate just happens to be a tutor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why I was one failed class away from being kicked off the team. Last year had been all about football and parties, not schoolwork. There I was, moving into the dorms at Franklin U and not into the shared party house I’d lived in my freshman year. ![]() ![]() ― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess There are accounts of it-old stories in the library-” "Well, you needn't act as if I invented it," said Will. "It was the pox, wasn't it? You know all about it, don't you? Aren't you some sort of expert?" Those sores upon his arms, they started to cover him. Since Mortmain stopped sending the medicine, he's been getting worse. Gabriel pulled away from his brother's grip, his teeth suddenly flashing in an angry scowl. He has brought shame on the name of Lightwood, and lied to both of us. "He's a worm," he said again, tonelessly. 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I am not offended by the occasional F-bomb (usually used in times of exasperation rather than abuse), but if you are sensitive, you’ve been warned. ![]() It is obvious from the title that the supernatural will feature, so I chose this quote to show that is also a bit irreverent and funny. “Christ, it was like the man had wandered straight out of a book of poetry and no one had had the good sense to send him back in.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one-not even Chester himself-realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two. He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents' newsstand. The trio have many adventures-from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire. And he could not have found two better guides-and friends-than Tucker and Harry. Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. ![]() He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City-the Times Square subway station. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a split has also been mentioned by other authors. One very interesting pondering was something I've seen in Dolores' Cannon's work of a possible split in the evolution of humanity, of those that are evolving separating from those more interested in material things, greed, power, etc. It's interesting and includes some pondering on the course of humanity and probable futures for humans and humanity and maybe even Earth. but with a few "trees" provided as examples. Kind of a "forest" view after years of examining "trees". While there are example regressions included, this is also more a distillation of wisdom gleaned from years of research. Weiss's previous works that contain more cases of life regressions and some future progressions. 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