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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Ferry time. The Bruny Island Ferry, the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. September 2013. Theme Thursday . SOCKS? If SOCKS were any good, why don't I ever see crocodiles wearing them?

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Don't step back!

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Somewhere out there Antarctica awaits... Clifton Beach, October 2011. Do you remember that song Safety Dance by Canadian synth combo Men Without Hats? I hate that song. Really. I really hate that song. They should have done a song about an ocean or a beach. Only it should be nothing like fellow Canadians Martha and the Muffins' aural atrocity Echo Beach , because I really hate that song too. Come to think of it, there's a lot of Canadian music I don't like...

touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves

Rocky outcrop times two. Storm Bay as seen from Eaglehawk Neck, January 2011. It’s a lovely part of the world, Tasmania. If you’ve not been here, I might ask “why not?” My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts , by Adrienne Rich My mouth hovers across your breasts in the short grey winter afternoon in this bed we are delicate and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves tough and delicate we play rings around each other our daytime candle burns with its peculiar light and if the snow begins to fall outside filling the branches and if the night falls without announcement there are the pleasures of winter sudden, wild and delicate your fingers exact my tongue exact at the same moment stopping to laugh at a joke my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

So here I am looking over Storm Bay. Next stop, Antarctica! Storm Bay is the entrance to the Derwent River estuary, and is bordered by Bruny Island to the west and the Tasman Peninsula to the east. This view is to the south east, where the vilest, most wretched and smelliest convicts to be vomited from Britain's shores ended up!