today i decided to illustrate my existential crisis
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“I am still someone who has been swimming against the current for a long time and who is waiting to find that flow where he will feel carried, where he will regain his breathing and his fresh muscles. I’m waiting for the tide.”
— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, August 30, 1948 [#37]
Earth as Viewed From 10,000 Miles
“On November 9, 1967, the uncrewed Apollo 4 test flight made a great ellipse around Earth as a test of the translunar motors and of the high speed entry required of a crewed flight returning from the Moon. A 70mm camera was programmed to look out a window toward Earth, and take a series of photographs from “high apogee.” Seen looking west are coastal Brazil, the Atlantic Ocean, West Africa and Antarctica. This photograph was made as the Apollo 4 spacecraft, still attached to the S-IVB (third) stage, orbited Earth at an altitude of 9,544 miles.” (Image credit: NASA)
“To know what you can’t do anything about and to be content with it as you would with fate — only a man of virtue can do that.”
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 5)
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