ABC Electric JournalOfficial mouthpiece of the American Book Congress.Whale- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Otherwise, the whale again entered into the aquarium. All the other lifeforms felt squeezed against the cold glass sides, but then he left us and we could breathe again, and the marine biologist in his pressurized suit went round to each of the tables, castles, arches of coral and rock, and administered air and victuals to those of us who remained in need. It was observed that, outside the aquarium, the whale was much smaller than when inside, in fact hardly even the size of we fish,...http://www.americanbookcongress.org/weblog.php?id=P3366 Pliny the Elder- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Pliny the Elder was a Roman writer of the first century A.D. whose one extant work, Natural History, is an overview of what the ancients knew or guessed about how the natural world worked. Today it reads a bit like science fiction ("there is no doubt that winds cause earthquakes," he says) but remains a goldmine of imagination. Here is a brief excerpt from the Penguin translation (Healy), in which Pliny tells us about the people of Africa (I like the description...http://www.americanbookcongress.org/weblog.php?id=P3363 |