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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.

— 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.

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

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.

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