Music Mix: Up to Our Knees In the Milky Way
There’s a Calvin & Hobbes daily strip series, where Calvin keeps growing & growing, dwarfing his town, city, the weather, and finally the universe. This particular strip I’m thinking of was wordless. Just him growing, and then wading through the Milky Way.
See also:
“Watching mountains drift by”
–xkcd, 941
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
–J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew, 1948
“But her most intoxicating gifts were a thousand candles her and her slaves had made in a colonial mold. We fitted them into the empty mouths of my thousand candlesticks and deployed them over the lobby floor. Then we lit them all.
Standing there among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way.”
–Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, 1974
2011 Nov 19 / 6 notes
