The Mess #8
Transformation; another thing; transmutation; another thing...
Alchemy - defined:used by early scientists, the medieval forerunner of chemistry based on the supposed transformation of matter. Concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir; figurative meaning: a process by which paradoxical results are achieved or incompatible elements combined with no obvious rational explanation.
"Now I hear the sea sounds about me; the night high tide is rising, swirling with a confused rush of waters against the rocks below...
Once this rocky coast beneath me was a plain of sand; then the sea rose and found a new shore line. And again in some shadowy future the surf will have ground these rocks to sand and will have returned the coast to its earlier state. And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself."
From The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson.
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