“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, September 2, 2012

Rhinovirus at 35 000 Feet

A cold passed through the plane from Sydney to San Francisco. It was curious to watch passenger after passenger around me succumb to it: I was maybe third or fourth of about five. It's such a long flight you can see how rapidly, relatively, a rhinovirus is able to propagate itself.

Needless to say a fifteen hour flight is a bit of a mind bender. But I feel a lot better than when I first did it last year. Perhaps one's body remembers and anticipates.

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