tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6739685961723990148..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Vassilis Zambaras: Keep what I give youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53939046702775689662012-01-16T06:54:50.550-08:002012-01-16T06:54:50.550-08:00Aditya,
Aram had a (fine) point.
Nin,
Thanks -...Aditya,<br /><br />Aram had a (fine) point.<br /><br /><br />Nin,<br /><br />Thanks -- and I suppose I am permitted to agree, as the beauty does not come from me.<br /><br /><br />Vassilis, <br /><br />It's all down to you -- the inspiration, that is... if not also the creation of the galaxies.<br /><br /><br />E,<br /><br />I've been acting differently, in fact, all through these recent aeons.<br /><br />It may be the cosmic perspective... or it may be the flu.<br /><br />Thanks for your keen eye in spotting that duplication. I've fixed it.<br /><br />To be honest, the attributions created a world of problems. There was, first of all, some difficulty in turning them into intelligible lay-person's English (don't know how well I've succeeded at that). Then there was the design decision: when in an earlier round of drafts, I broke the prose down into graphs, it seemed there was some danger of the attributions dwarfing the poem (much as the galaxies dwarf us). The headaches, multiplied by flu symptoms, resulted in the present format. Easily legible... for an ant?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24386352411275298682012-01-15T23:31:23.159-08:002012-01-15T23:31:23.159-08:00As some of us used to say what seems like eons ago...As some of us used to say what seems like eons ago (before The Big Bang?), these pictures are "mind-boggling"--Tom has done another formidable job on a very modest poem--the perfect renovator!vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33715912011560186902012-01-15T16:05:06.210-08:002012-01-15T16:05:06.210-08:00Breathtaking. Would we act differently if we consi...Breathtaking. Would we act differently if we considered these every day?<br /><br />Could you please put some paragraph breaks in the longer texts?<br /><br />This part is included twice in a row:<br />12 million light-years away, M82 appears high ... Located 12 million light-years away, M82 appears high in the northernEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12452842332549541201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28347451508404042172012-01-15T09:46:51.506-08:002012-01-15T09:46:51.506-08:00What a beauty!
stars are me too
Aram Saroy...What a beauty!<br /><br /><br /><br />stars are me too <br /> <br /> Aram Saroyanadityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57449940588905332672012-01-15T08:01:10.136-08:002012-01-15T08:01:10.136-08:00Don,
The galaxies are too dizzymaking for old guy...Don,<br /><br />The galaxies are too dizzymaking for old guys, he concluded, still reeling from trying to sort out the implications of the photo attributions.<br /><br />That sense of knowing where the universe came from and where it's going... projected/constructed out of a mosaic of super-sharp Hubble images.<br /><br />(The top "backyard image" by Mila Zinkova coming off in comparison as... dare I say it... almost "down home"?)<br /><br />Of course what seems sharp (or muddy) to us might look otherwise to strange eyes viewing from out there beyond the stars. <br /><br />Vassilis says what there is be said. And does it much more neatly and elegantly than any NASA press officer. A poet feeling his way into the impossible enormity.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11848207921590886662012-01-15T07:33:21.918-08:002012-01-15T07:33:21.918-08:00Where science and poetry intersect - there is some...Where science and poetry intersect - there is something so wondrous that a tiny human being on a smallish planet 45 million light years away can simply say:<br /><br />"During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed."<br /><br />Excellent poem, stunning pics.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com