From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:43:58 +0000 (+0300) Subject: about-2: Small updates X-Git-Tag: v0.5^0 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5c8fec66e0dc6e5d6bd902a7a1de6417460e0d5;p=thetarpit.git about-2: Small updates --- diff --git a/about-2.markdown b/about-2.markdown index d5c0770..76ece08 100644 --- a/about-2.markdown +++ b/about-2.markdown @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: On tar pits (or, the second about) author: Lucian Mogoșanu -date: April 24, 2016 +date: April 29, 2016 --- Humans' understanding of the universe is terrifyingly limited. Yet from @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ or just the fat lady standing in front of you at the queue in the post office. In the same category lies a tar pit uniquely attributable to man, that -creature more widely (although more and more narrowly) known as ζῷον -πολιτικόν. It, like the Boltzmann constant itself, is also difficult to +creature more widely (although more and more narrowly) known as Zōon +Politikon. It, like the Boltzmann constant itself, is also difficult to grasp, but you might know it as that feeling which (naturally!) keeps you from aspiring to become *more* human. It is laziness; it is stagnation; it is tiredness, and it is ultimately death. @@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ publication. After all, tar pits might not even be enumerable. (Note: the previous [about page][about] was left online for historical reasons.) -[about]: about.html +[about]: ./about.html