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Published: 2021-07-31 05:59:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1216; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 0
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Image by  Meryl katys from  Pixabay 

Inspired in part by a song I found when I was out at college in Oregon
That I recently discovered had been uploaded onto YouTube
The music is rather dated now, but the lyrics just seem
to get more and more relevant as time passes.

Jeff Johnson, “The Phantoms Know (So Long Andromeda)”

"...and still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because
he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain,
plunged into it and was drowned. But the same image, we ourselves
see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable
phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."
                                                – From "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville

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DelightfulDolphin [2021-09-04 18:06:35 +0000 UTC]

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