Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 –1569) is generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century.

He developed an original style that uniformly holds narrative, or ...

 
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far too regular for any substance meant to live

far too regular for any substance meant to live

Young Wilson Alwyn Bentley became fascinated with snow crystals while living in his family's farm. On the 15th of January, at the age of 20, he ...

 
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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future?

If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close — the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. ...

 
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