What Water Does for Us
“Water is the universal solvent, of schemes as well as substances. In motion, it seems alive, motivated by a kind purpose as it seeks its level, sinuous as if animated by serpents or spirits, which helps explain all those monsters and mermaids and river gods that have populated the waters of the human mind. The motion of water, unlike that of atoms or stone, readily accommodates our powers of perception, the timescale of a human life. The motion of water is luminous and momentary.”
From “Watermarks” by Donovan Hohn for Lapham’s Quarterly; Photo by Vishal Banik (@imvishalbanik)
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