20th february 2006
numinoscopy revisited

Back when this weblog was in its infancy, receiving plaudits from all and sundry ('here we have something that is taut, elegant, alert . . . ' Blog-U-Like.com hem hem) there was an entry about cloudwatching. Four years later, the site still shambling towards Jerusalem, I come across this, from James Thomson's long poem The Castle of Indolence:

Oft as he traversed the cerulean field,
And marked the clouds that drove before the wind,
Ten thousand glorious systems would he build,
Ten thousand great ideas filled his mind:
But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind.

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