Most gentle and lovely reader, with this first post I begin what I hope will be a journey of shared discovery and collaboration with you. We are members, after all, of a grand and most ancient community of experimental researchers, archivists and collectors of facts, and our duty is clear.
Here you will find selected writings and illustrations from my work: "On The Nature Of Things," a series of books based upon those produced by that splendid ancestor of mine, Gaius Plinius Secundus, also known as “Pliny the Elder.” Pliny was born about 23 AD and died while investigating to close the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on August 23, 79 AD. Though an aggressive spirit of scientific inquiry (and the gasses emitted by Vesuvius), resulted in his untimely death, Pliny’s legacy lives on in the writing, illustration and visitor comments you shall find here. Let the death of this great man be a warning to you, for the sweet scent of blossoming insight is often quite fatal.
The world is a truly amazing place! It is awe-inspiring in its sublime beauty and terrible ugliness. It is a sloppy mess of sensations and information, a thing in continual transformation; bringing uncountable forms into being, while in the same instant, mercilessly pulling them apart again.
Though we understand the absurd contradiction in harassing the mind with the pursuit of meaning, we also know that finding meaning in absurdity is perhaps its most sacred function. May the Great Spirit Of Things bless this endeavor and bring it to fruition for us all!
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