I love the symbolism in this opening paragraph of an article that I read today...
"We are all pebbles dropped in the sea of history, where the splash strikes one way and the big tides run another, and though what we feel is the splash, the splash takes place only within those tides. In almost every case, the incoming current drowns the splash; once in a while the drop of the pebble changes the way the ocean runs."
From the article "Twin Peaks" (on Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin) by Adam Gopnik, published in the February 2009 edition of Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonian.com).
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My head exploded halfway through ths quote. I have paraphrased it for simpler people like me.
ReplyDeleteWe are all pebbles dropped in the sea of history. Most of us sink. Those that don't probably weren't pebbles in the first place. Probably they were bits of plastic, foam, or maybe cork - which is why they float.
Thanks, "Gabriel", for that truly deep, yet somewhat ecologically irresponsible extrapolation of Mr Gopnik's eloquent philosophy... :)
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