oh man
I've been writing absurd amounts of poetry because I'm now in poetry classes instead of taking a schedule that was silly in every way and had things like sociology and economics and honestly they cannot compare to poetry.
Foucalt said that every man was born in the wrong time, under the wrong set of circumstances. I like that, I guess.
College is just ridiculous all the time - everyone has an asymetrical haircut, liberal views, complicated relationships, poetry readings, torn-up jeans and a romanticized view of the working class.
Something whimisical: there's a japanese deep-sea lily that releases its sex cells with the cycle of the moon's nutation for no reason that anyone can figure out. Organisms that have never been exposed to sunlight will sometimes spontaneously start living by the circadian cycle, meaning the solar day.
The encyclopedia says
One of the very striking manners in which the presence of fundamental 24-hour variations is reflected in man and other animals is in changing responsiveness or susceptibility to physical and chemical insults. Doses of X-rays that at one time of day can kill every individual exposed will at another time kill only a few individuals or none. Doses of powerful poisons, fully lethal at one time of day, leave animals unharmed at others. Noise that can induce fatal convulsions in mice at one time of day fail to do so at another.
So then the hypothesis is that if organisms from eukaryotic cells to human beings respond without knowledge or control to the cycles of the sun moon and earth, then the basis for these responses is encoded in DNA.
There's so much poetry in that. I wish I could learn science without the machinery and mathematics of it, damn