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"One might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity."
- Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Claude Monet Hamerocallis, 1914-1917 Oil on canvas Credit: The Athenaeum [Public Domain]
Claude Monet Agapanthus, between 1914 and 1926 Oil on canvas Credit: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
The Water-Lily Pond by Claude Monet (1899)