Theme: “Round and Round”

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The Heavens Were the Realm of Perfection

These loopy planetary orbits were hugely problematic for the ancient Greeks, because all the orbits were supposed to be circular according to Plato and his pupil Aristotle. They declared that the circle, with its simplicity, beauty and lack of beginning...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

It Is Probably a Sphere

Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

Earth Had to Be a Sphere

It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Also sprach Zarathustra is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical 1883–1885 novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Strauss conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt. A typical performance lasts roughly...

Source: Also Sprach Zarathustra

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Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems… Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…

With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.

For Whatever That Means… For Whatever That Means…

And I pray, oh my god do I pray! I pray every single day for revolution.

She Says It’s Only in My Head She Says It’s Only in My Head

No one ’round here’s good at keeping their eyes closed.

Narrative Episodes

My Head Is Stuck in the Clouds My Head Is Stuck in the Clouds

They had to imagine the sun as something that does not move in relation to the earth and the earth even as something moving.

The Eyes in His Head See the World Spinning Round The Eyes in His Head See the World Spinning Round

Day after day, alone on a hill, the man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still.

Watching the Wheels Go Round and Round Watching the Wheels Go Round and Round

No longer riding on the merry-go-round. I just had to let it go.

We Go Round and Round and Round… We Go Round and Round and Round…

Is the truth really there? Or is it right under our hair? For all we know it’s been there all the time.

We Are Afflicted by Fiction We Are Afflicted by Fiction

I wander through fiction to look for the truth, buried beneath all the lies.

I Wanna Turn the Whole Thing Upside Down I Wanna Turn the Whole Thing Upside Down

Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot, this world keeps spinning.