Wednesday 7 August 2013

7. Humans are capable of working magic


 …and they did from the moment we learnt to walk up-right. We soon learned how to make shelters from mud, sticks and place one stone on top of another, and how to defend our territories.  The rest is history   There was one invention that probably the most significant and least appreciated.


"It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." quote “Carl Sagan”




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HMS Surprise British Frigate 1796 1:48 Scale Complete Wooden kit



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We can see example every day, none more so when you follow the plans used for these models often achieving stunning results, a replica of the real thing in miniature.

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