http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://verywide.net/blog/2009/04/12/tree-of-aeons/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/04/12/tree-of-aeons/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:53:54 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=296 From so humble a beginning as the blind dance of chemicals may represent, from out of the depths of unconscious ages in life’s Ultima Thule, the Tree of Life arose from the primordial chaos, sui generis, to grow through countless ages, to diversify its fruits, to send tendrils of spiral DNA, winding and raveling, into [...]

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