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The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine.

— Tomas Tranströmer

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Above ground,
in tropical flood, earth's greenery
stands with lifted arms, as if listening
to the beat of invisible pistons.

My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.

I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.

We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.

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