Falling Glass
They say that Time is relative; that we mark it by the speed at which we live.
A hummingbird beats its wings too fast for the human eye to see; but is it aware of its wing at every point of its beat? A lark’s song slowed down reveals a myriad of trills and inflections; and what must Time look like to a mayfly which enjoys the same number of lifetime heartbeats as all other species but lives and dies in a day?
Perhaps our only insight into this is when we knock over a glass of beer.
<Deleted User> (10123)
Thu 15th Mar 2012 10:36
Can you show proof that a humingbird knows every point of its beat? I thought only policemen had a beat, discounting drummers, heat-surgeons, and the second horse at Ascot, and so on, ad infinitum. Prosetry is not my bag - yet - but if some of the lectures were thus presented I might have taken more notice, and then... he said knowingly!
Ta much, Nick.
ps Was Nick Coleman's lorry staionary! No we won't go there at this time!